Borland Joins GNOME Foundation Advisory Board and Introduces Kylix RAD Platform for Linux

Inprise Corporation (Nasdaq: INPR), herein referred to as Borland, announced its reaffirmed commitment to open-source development by joining the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board. Borland teams with firms such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat and Helix Code to foster development of the GNOME desktop environment and application framework. Borland is introducing the first rapid application development (RAD) platform, Kylix, which aims to enable users to quickly and easily build and deploy native Linux applications. The platform will be based on the design of Borland's award-winning Delphi(TM) and C++ Builder(TM). About 10% of the press release is dedicated to the introduction of Kylix, while the rest is about Borland joining the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board and its commitment to open-source development.