Inprise Appoints Jeff Barca-Hall Vice President of Development Tools; Industry Veteran to Help Lead Company's Development Tools Division.

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 19, 1998--Inprise Corporation (Nasdaq:INPR) today announced the appointment of Jeffrey L. Barca-Hall, 40, to the new position of vice president, development tools. Reporting to Rick LeFaivre, Inprise senior vice president of research and development, Barca-Hall will help define and drive the product and technology directions for the company's enterprise-development-tool product lines: JBuilder, Delphi, and C++Builder.

Barca-Hall comes to Inprise from Netscape Communications Corporation, where he served as director of development tools. He was responsible for research and development of Netscape's application-development tools, including Netscape Application Builder, Netscape Visual JavaScript, and other technology that supported the Netscape application platform, including Netscape's Application Server and Web Server products. Barca-Hall is also the former director of development tools at Symantec Corporation and has over 16 years of experience in the software development tools industry, where he has lead research and development efforts.

"Jeff brings a wealth of research and development expertise to Inprise, and we are thrilled he will be heading up our development-tools group," LeFaivre said. "Jeff will be instrumental in our continued commitment to deliver the absolute best development tools in the industry. His group will work very closely with our Application Server/VisiBroker Products group and our Enterprise Integration Products group to deliver complete enterprise solutions for our customers."

"I am excited to be joining the preeminent software-development-tools organization in the industry," said Barca-Hall. "Inprise has a world-class team of developers, technology, and products. I am looking forward to increasing the company's focus on multi-tier distributed-object computing and its support for key industry-standard technologies such as COM, CORBA, EJB, and XML, among other emerging technologies."

About Inprise Corporation 

Inprise Corporation is a leading provider of software and services that simplify the complexity of enterprise application development, integration, deployment, and management. The company is distinguished for its award-winning Borland family of rapid application development products and for proven scalable middleware. Inprise integrates these offerings with application-management products to provide customers with end-to-end solutions. Inprise customers include leading enterprises and independent software vendors around the world. Founded in 1983, Inprise is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, and has operations around the world. Inprise has more than 900 employees worldwide. For more information on Inprise, customers can visit the company's Web site at http://www.inprise.com .

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