Stories about: Inprise

Borland Software's plan to abandon the development tool business to focus on its application life-cycle management (ALM) products found support among some users that are looking to manage software development as a process.

Dale Fuller, president and CEO of Borland Software, has been with the company since 1999, when it had temporarily been renamed Inprise. Recently, the company has been touting its ALM (application lifecycle management) strategy and efforts to provide for a unified, manufacturing-like structure for software development projects. InfoWorld Editor-at-Large Paul Krill spoke with Fuller at the BorCon conference last week about Borland's tools and ALM strategies and issues such as Java vs. .Net, Web services, and outsourcing.

Borland Software Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer Dale Fuller is not optimistic about partner company Sun Microsystems Inc.'s chance to unseat Microsoft Corp.on the desktop.

Borland Software Corp. today announced that it's gearing up for the release of a new collaborative, Web-based software tool.

Vendors vying for firm footing in the growing application server market used the CeBIT trade show to promote the latest versions of their software, including products newly certified as compatible with Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and to highlight alliances that are designed to increase the development activity on application server platforms.

The results of US IT players are tending to reflect the newly sombre mood of the nation -- with a few notable exceptions

Some 22,000 to 24,000 attendees are expected to descend on this week's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York -- pretty clear evidence that IT decision-makers more than ever crave business solutions that leverage the benefits of Linux and open source.

E-business implementation solutions provider, Borland Software Corporation has completed its name change from Inprise Corporation.

It's that time of the year again, time to reveal some of the interesting, funny and downright stupid comments that issued from the mouths of the great, the good and the not-so-good in the IT industry during 2000.

The CSIRO is releasing a series of studies this month which evaluate a key technology for Internet-based computing. The study of middleware technologies is aimed at providing independent assistance for business in product choice.

At the risk of sounding like Intellect's advertising agency it is only fair that we report that the West Australian smart card specialist has chalked up yet another export order - this time worth a stunning $A12 million. Not all the news for the week was on such a scale, and the pettifogging over the Federal Government's outsourcing strategy just dragged on and on