Borland Delivers Kylix Open Edition for Linux Community.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2001 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 NM:BORL), a leading provider of e-business platform solutions, today announced at the 12th Annual Borland Developer Conference (BorCon(TM)), the availability of Borland(R) Kylix(TM) Open Edition. Kylix Open Edition enables the Linux(R) community to quickly and easily create sophisticated, highly visual end-user graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (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. ) open source applications with the ease of drag-and-drop development. Included in the Kylix Open Edition is FreeCLX(TM), the open source, GPL-licensed version of the component library for cross-platform. Kylix Open Edition delivers a comprehensive palette of over 100 reusable, customizable and extensible FreeCLX components for open source Linux applications. Developers can download Kylix Open Edition from the Borland Web site at www.borland.com/downloads/. "The open source community is extremely important because they are shaping the future of application development," said Bill Claybrook, research director, Linux and Open Source Software, Aberdeen Group Aberdeen Group is a provider of business-related research services. It has its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and belongs to the Harte-Hanks group. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen's research is used by over 2. . "Borland is bringing its FreeCLX component library and framework for developing applications to the community. This will allow Open Source developers to create virtually hundreds of CLX (library, graphics) CLX - The Common Lisp library providing a low-level interface to the X Window System, equivalent to Xlib. Graphics toolkits can be built on top of CLX, e.g. McCLIM, Garnet, CLUE and CLIO. (TM) cross-platform components and bring them to market quickly." "Kylix Open Edition reinforces our commitment to the open source community, and provides freedom of choice for rapid application development," said Simon Thornhill, vice president and general manager of the RAD business unit for Borland. About Borland(R) Kylix(TM) Borland Kylix is a high-performance rapid application development (RAD) environment for the Linux platform. Kylix is a component-based environment for two-way visual development of graphical user interface (GUI), Internet, database and server applications. Kylix is powered by a new high-speed native Delphi(TM) compiler for Linux and implements a native Linux and cross-platform version of the Borland Visual Component Library (programming) Visual Component Library - VCL A application framework library for Microsoft Windows and Borland Software Corp.'s Delphi and C++Builder rapid application development software. VCL was originally designed for Delphi but is now also used for C++Builder. (VCL VCL - Visual Component Library ) architecture called CLX. CLX is designed to radically speed native Linux application development and simplify the porting of Delphi applications between Windows(R) and Linux operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Borland Kylix is available in the Server Developer Edition for $1999, the Desktop Developer Edition for $199 for a limited time, and the Open Edition. Kylix Open Edition for open source software (GPL See GNU General Public License. 1. GPL - General Purpose Language. 2. GPL - ["A Sample Management Application Program in a Graphical Data-driven Programming language", A.L. Davis et al, Digest of Papers, Compcon Spring 81, Feb 1981, pp. 162-167]. ) developers will be available for free download. For more information about Kylix, please visit the Borland Web site, www.borland.com/kylix. About Borland Borland is a leading provider of high-performance e-business platform solutions designed to increase developer productivity and reduce time to market for enterprise software projects. E-business platform solutions consist of software products that allow businesses to develop, deploy and manage e-business applications. Borland is the vendor of choice for professional e-business solution providers who demand a vendor-independent platform that supports rapid time to market, high productivity, performance and availability. Founded in 1983, Borland is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California Scotts Valley is a small city located in eastern Santa Cruz County, California, United States, about ten miles (16 km) south of San Jose and six miles (10 km) north of the beach in the upland slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 11,385. , with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Borland at http://www.borland.com/, the community site at http://community.borland.com/ or call Borland at 800/632-2864. Note to Editors: All Borland brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland Software Corporation, formerly known as Inprise Corporation Inprise Corporation - Borland Software Corporation. , in the United States and other countries. 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