Borland's ALM Products Receive Numerous Accolades in 2004; Award-Winning Solutions Set to Drive Software Delivery Optimization in 2005.SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. -- Borland Software Corporation (company) Borland Software Corporation - A company that sells a variety of PC software development and database systems. Borland was founded in 1983 and initially became famous for their low-cost software, particularly Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo Prolog. (Nasdaq:BORL), the global leader for platform independent solutions for Software Delivery Optimization, today announced 2004 as a banner year for its products, with Borland solutions receiving numerous industry accolades and awards from around the globe. Industry recognition of Borland's innovative solutions provides the company with significant momentum leading into 2005 and underscores Borland's ongoing focus on technical excellence and customer value. It also highlights the solid foundation upon which Borland will deliver its Software Delivery Optimization strategy, transforming software development from an unpredictable art form into a more manageable and repeatable business process. Unveiled in September at the Borland Conference 2004, Software Delivery Optimization builds on the technical efficiencies of Application Lifecycle Management The administration and control of an application from inception to its demise. It embraces requirements management, system design, software development and configuration management and implies an integrated set of tools for developing and controlling the project. (ALM) and incorporates the business processes and management capabilities companies need to align business and IT. The first iteration of Borland's cohesive Software Delivery Optimization platform, codenamed "Themis," will incorporate capabilities from Borland's award-winning ALM solutions. "We set our standards high in order to deliver our customers with the quality software solutions and services they need to be as creative and productive as possible," said Boz Elloy, senior vice president of software products at Borland. "These awards demonstrate our drive to meet and exceed these standards, but mostly they are a tribute to our customers. It is their loyalty, support and feedback that helps us innovate year after year and win awards such as these." Throughout 2004, Borland was recognized for technical innovation, experience and product strategy by various publications and organizations. Product recognition spanned categories across the application lifecycle, from individual and team development through modeling and testing. Awards also stretched across platforms and languages, underscoring Borland's commitment to customer choice. Java Awards --Java Pro magazine awarded Borland Optimizeit(TM) Suite the Reader's Choice Award for the "Best Java Optimization/Profiling Tool." Presented at the October JavaPro Live! Conference, Borland products were also finalists for "Best IDE," "Best Java Development Suite," "Best Java Modeling Tool," "Best Java Testing Tool," "Best Team Development Tool," "Best Mobile Development Tool," "Best Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. Development Toolkit" and "Best Java Data Access Tool." --SD Magazine awarded Borland JBuilder(R) first place in the "Most Robust Tool" category for its October Reader's Choice Awards. --Java Developer's Journal selected Borland JBuilder as the "Best Java IDE Environment" in their Readers' Choice Awards. Those same readers voted Borland Together Together is a product line from Borland that integrates a Java IDE, which originally had its roots in JBuilder with a UML modeling tool. The product line comes in various levels of functionality, called Together Developer, Together Designer, and Together Architect. (R) ControlCenter(TM) to win in the "Best Java Application A Java program that is run stand alone. The Java Virtual Machine in the client or server is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java applet. See servlet. " category. --PC Magazine just recently awarded JBuilder 2005 the Editor's Choice Award for Development Environments, giving it 4 1/2 out of 5 stars. Published earlier this year, JBuilder won the "Best of Development Tools" category in PC Magazine's Best of 2003 awards, noting JBuilder's world-class EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) A software component in Sun's J2EE platform, which provides a pure Java environment for developing and running distributed applications. EJBs are written as software modules that contain the business logic of the application. development capabilities and its support for open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced . --Programmer's Paradise recognized Borland JBuilder Enterprise as the best selling single language Integrated Developer Environment (IDE). --Borland Enterprise Server, which supports the J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. (TM) platform, CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global (R), and Web Services standards, won the Golden Software Award for Middleware, presented by the Ministry of Information Technology of China, China Software Association and Software World magazine. --VSJ (UK) readers voted JBuilder the winner of the "Best Java Tool or Environment 2004" in its annual Readers Choice Awards. --JBuilder, Together and Optimizeit recently won multiple categories at the Java Magazin's Reader's Choice Awards 2004 (Germany). JBuilder won for "Best IDE," Together received the "Best UML-Modeling Tool" award and Optimizeit won for the "Best Java Profiling Tool." Microsoft .NET Awards --Together Edition for Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship software development product for computer programmers. It centers on an integrated development environment which lets programmers create standalone applications, web sites, web applications, and web services that run on any platforms .NET was voted by users as the best "Modeling Tool" by MSD (MicroSoft Diagnostics) A utility that accompanied Windows 3.1 and DOS 6 that reported on the internal configuration of the PC. A variety of information on disks, video, drivers, IRQs and port addresses was provided. 2D.com in the Third Annual People's Choice Awards The People's Choice Awards is an awards show recognizing the people and the work of popular culture. The show has been held annually since 1975 and is one of the few to be based on the opinions of the general public. , a yearly award recognizing the best products and companies in the .NET industry. --A MSD2D People's Choice Award was also given to Borland Delphi(R) as the "Best IDE/Editor." --Delphi was voted "Best of Show" in the Developer Tools category at this year's annual TechEd teched adj. Variant of tetched. Europe. --Delphi was also recognized by readers of Web Services Journal as a finalist for the "Best GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. for a Web Services Product" competition. The product was nominated for its intuitive interface and rapid creation of industry standard Web services. --Finally, Visual Studio Magazine awarded Borland C#Builder(TM) (now a personality within Borland Delphi 2005) as "Best Development Tool" earlier this year. For more information on these and other Borland ALM solutions, please visit: www.borland.com/products. About Borland Founded in 1983, Borland Software Corporation (Nasdaq:BORL) is the global leader in platform independent solutions for software delivery optimization. The company provides the software and services that align the teams, technology and processes required to maximize the business value of software. To learn more about delivering quality software, on time and within budget, visit: http://www.borland.com. Optimizeit, JBuilder, Together, ControlCenter, Delphi, C#Builder and all other Borland brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland Software Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. |
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