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2001-12-07 09:57:00 +00:00
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<a href="../organization.html">Organization</a> :
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<h3 align="center">BORLAND JOINS GNOME FOUNDATION ADVISORY BOARD</h2>
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Borland To Support Linux<75> Desktop With Upcoming Kylix[tm] Development Platform
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Las Vegas, Nev. -- November 15, 2000 -- Inprise Corporation (Nasdaq: INPR), herein
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referred to as Borland, today at the Linux Business Expo announced its reaffirmed
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commitment to open-source development by joining the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board.
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Borland teams with firms such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat and Helix Code to foster
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development of the GNOME desktop environment and application framework.
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<br><br>
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"The GNOME Foundation is pleased to have the support of Borland," said Miguel Icaza,
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founder of the GNOME Project. "Borland's long history of component architecture
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experience will be invaluable to helping further the Bonobo component project in
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creating reusable software components and compound documents. We are looking forward to
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their contributions to GNOME and their work to help developers bring their applications
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to the GNOME platform using Kylix[tm]."
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Borland is introducing the first rapid application development (RAD) platform, Kylix,
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which aims to enable users to quickly and easily build and deploy native Linux<75>
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applications. Kylix will be based on the design of Borland's award-winning Delphi[tm]
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and C++ Builder[tm].
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<br><br>
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"We're delighted to become a part of the GNOME Foundation and to help take GNOME award
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development to RAD developers," said Michael Swindell, director of product management of
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the RAD Tools group at Borland.
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"Borland's participation in the GNOME foundation aims to help developers build great
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GNU/Linux applications that look, feel, and behave natively in multiple desktop
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environments,"continued Michael. "A significant part of this effort will be working
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closely with GNOME's Bonobo component project and companies like Eazel and Helix Code to
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deliver Bonobo component support to Kylix developers."
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<br><br>
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<b>About Kylix[tm]</b>
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Kylix is intended to be the first high-performance rapid application development (RAD)
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platform for the Linux platform. Kylix is a component-based development environment for
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two-way visual development of graphical user interface (GUI), Internet, database and
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server applications. Kylix will be powered by a new high-speed native Delphi/C/C++
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compiler for Linux and will implement a native Linux, and cross-platform version of the
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Borland VCL (Visual Component Library) architecture called CLX[tm]. CLX is designed to
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radically speed native Linux application development and simplify the porting of Delphi
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and C++ Builder applications between Windows<77> and Linux operating systems. To learn
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more, visit: http://www.borland.com/kylix/
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<br><br>
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<b>About GNOME and the GNOME Foundation</b>
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<br><br>
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The GNOME project has built a completely free and easy-to-use desktop environment, as
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well as a powerful application framework for software developers on Linux and other
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Unix-like operating systems. The GNOME Foundation will provide organizational, financial
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and legal support to the GNOME project, and help determine its vision and roadmap. GNOME
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is part of the GNU project, an effort to build a completely free Unix-like operating
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system better known as GNU/Linux or Linux. Additional information is available at
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http://www.gnome.org/.
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<br><br>
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<b>About Borland</b>
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<br><br>
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Inprise Corporation, referred to in this press release as Borland, is a leading provider
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of Internet access infrastructure and application development tools and services for all
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major platforms, including Linux, Solaris[tm] and Windows. Founded in 1983, Borland is
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headquartered in Scotts Valley, California with operations worldwide. To learn more,
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visit the community site or call the company at (800) 632-2864.
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<a href="mailto:membership@gnome.org">the GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee</a>
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and was designed by <a href="mailto:jpsc@users.sourceforge.net">JP
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Schnapper-Casteras</a> and <a href="mailto:bart@eazel.com">Bart Decrem</a>.</font></center>
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