Gradient Technologies and Inprise UK Partner to Market NetCrusader/CORBA and VisiBroker; Agreagreement, Inprise UK, the UK subsidiary of InpCORBA, Inprise customers will benefit from Gradop real E-business solutions," added Peter Christou, vice president of international sales for Gradient. "Inprise and Gradient have enjoyed a close partnership in the UK, and we are currently involved in a number of joint opportunities.".

Inprise Corporation is a leading provider of software and services that simplify the complexity of application development for corporations and individual programmers. Its Inprise Application Server delivers an integrated, scalable and secure solution that can enhance an enterprise's competitiveness by streamlining its IT processes and entire application lifecycle. The company's award-winning Borland family of visual development and embedded database tools - Delphi, C++Builder, JBuilder, MIDAS and InterBase are distinguished for their high quality, performance, and productivity. To further support the millions of software developers around the world, Inprise also offers an online community and E-commerce site -- www.borland.com -- providing a range of technical information, support services, and third-party products. Founded in 1983, Inprise is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, and has operations worldwide.

About Gradient

Founded in 1989, Gradient Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of security services for network computing. Gradient's NetCrusader(TM) product family -- including NetCrusader(TM)/Web and NetCrusader(TM)/CORBA -- integrates best-in-class security technologies for authentication and encryption with the common NetCrusader authorization model to provide flexible, scaleable enterprise security services for Web-based and CORBA-based applications. Gradient also markets PC-DCE(TM), a family of products implementing OSF/DCE on the most widely deployed client platforms. Gradient solutions have been deployed on more than 600,000 desktops worldwide. Gradient is privately held and based in Marlborough, Mass., USA, with UK operations in Bishop's Stortford, Herts. For more information, call +1.508.624.9600; in the UK, call [phone], or visit the Gradient Web site at www.gradient.com.