Borland and Netscape Ink Strategic Marketing, Technology, and OEM Deals; Borland to Leverage Key Elements of Netscape ONE Open Network Environment in Borland IntraBuilder.SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 1996--Borland International Inc. today announced it has signed a set of strategic agreements with Netscape Communications Corporation (company) Netscape Communications Corporation - (Formlerly "Mosaic Communications Corporation", MCC) A company set up in April 1994 by Dr. James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen <marca@netcom. of Mountain View, Calif. The agreements cover the licensing of key technology from the new Netscape ONE Open Network Environment announced by Netscape today. Additionally, Borland will bundle Netscape FasTrack Server software and Netscape Navigator Gold Premium Internet client software with select products to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. later. In addition, the agreements call for a series of joint marketing activities for products currently under development by Borland, including IntraBuilder, a web database applications development system featuring JavaScript 1.1 that was announced today at Borland's seventh annual Developers Conference in Anaheim, Calif. Financial terms of the agreements were not announced. "Our relationship with Borland is quite strategic. IntraBuilder is an exciting new Internet-based tool that leverages the power and ease of use of JavaScript to marry databases to the Web," said Mike Homer, senior vice-president of marketing for Netscape. "IntraBuilder supports the key components of Netscape ONE and makes it easy for corporate developers to build next-generation network applications. It's a home run." "Netscape's JavaScript offers an instant industry-standard language for IntraBuilder that opens up new markets for web-based database and general applications," said Michael Greenbaum, Borland vice-president of world-wide marketing. "JavaScript is the unifying technology between Netscape and Windows platforms, and its deployment in Intrabuilder creates an unmatched tool for Web applications." Netscape JavaScript version 1.1, also announced by Netscape today, is an enhanced version of Netscape's open, cross-platform Java-based scripting language for quickly and easily building network applications. JavaScript 1.1 features support for Netscape LiveConnect, Netscape's framework for enabling Live Objects such as Plug-ins, Java applets, JavaScript scripts and HTML elements to pass data, communicate and interact. Netscape is seeing tremendous developer acceptance for JavaScript with more than 100,000 JavaScript enabled pages on the Internet today according to HotBot, an Internet search engine (www.hotbot.com). Netscape ONE Open Network Environment is a standards-based platform for creating a new generation of distributed client/server applications. Netscape ONE unifies into one single platform the open standards of the Internet such as HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. , HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. and Java, and a tool chest of open, freely-licensable software and technologies for creating rich, distributed applications on the Internet and Intranets. Netscape ONE adds new technologies -- JavaScript version 1.1, Java-based Netscape Internet Foundation Classes See IFC. (language, library, programming, standard) Internet Foundation Classes - (IFC) A library of classes used in the creation of Java applets with GUIs. and support for a distributed object model based on the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (protocol, standard) Internet Inter-ORB Protocol - (IIOP) A protocol which will be mandatory for all CORBA 2.0 compliant platforms. The initial phase of the project is to build an infrastructure consisting of: an IIOP to HTTP gateway which allows CORBA clients to access WWW (IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol) The CORBA message protocol used on a TCP/IP network (Internet, intranet, etc.). CORBA is the industry standard for distributed objects, which allows programs (objects) to be run remotely in a network. ) standard -- to Netscape's leading line of Java-based clients, servers and tools. Borland: Making Development Easier Borland International Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :BORL) is a leading provider of products and services targeted to software developers. Borland is distinguished for its high-quality software development tools, which include Delphi, Delphi Client/Server, IntraBuilder, Borland C++, Visual dBASE, Paradox and InterBase. Borland's award-winning products are supported through comprehensive programs for small- and large-sized software developers, corporate developers, value added resellers and systems integrators. 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. . About Netscape Netscape Communications Corporation is a premier provider of open software for linking people and information over enterprise networks and the Internet. The company offers a full line of clients, servers, development tools and commercial applications to create a complete platform for next-generation, live online applications. Traded on NASDAQ under the symbol "NSCP NSCP National Schistosomiasis Control Program NSCP National Space Communications Program NSCP Native (Mode) Service Control Point (Tandem) ," Netscape Communications Corporation is based in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . -0- Note to Editors: Copies of previous Borland press releases and additional corporate and product information are available on Borland's Internet World Wide Web (WWW) site, at http://www.borland.com. CONTACT: Borland International W. 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