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标  题: A Letter from Borland CEO. Del Yocam
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Thu Apr 30 19:55:30 1998)

A Letter from Del Yocam, CEO

April 29, 1998

Dear Valued Customers:

We are making a very important announcement today that signals a momentous
change in our evolution. Before I tell you what that announcement is, let me give
you a little background on what led us to it.

First and foremost, we are a different company than we were just eighteen
months ago when I joined Borland as CEO. Several key events in the previous five
quarters of our turnaround strategy substantiate this:
    Our recognition of the next wave of enterprise application development,
    deployment, and management based on distributed object computing.
    Our focus on the radical simplification of the development, deployment,
    and management of distributed enterprise applications.
    The execution of our Information Network strategy to help hundreds of
    enterprise customers develop and implement sophisticated Information
    Network distributed applications that provide a competitive advantage
    including T. Rowe Price, Daiwa Securities, Charles Schwab, Sprint, and
    Ericsson.
    Our growing professional services partnerships with leading System
    Integrators such as Arthur Andersen, Cambridge Technology Partners,
    Compuware, EDS, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton, KPMG, and SHL
    Systemhouse.
    Our strong business relationships with Enterprise IT suppliers such as
    IBM, SAP, Sun, Oracle, Hitachi, Netscape, Novell, and Microsoft.
    Our integration of Visigenic Software, Inc., acquired on April 27, 1998,
    helping us to accelerate the realization of our vision and increase our focus
    on the enterprise.
    Our growth and profitability in rapidly expanding enterprise distributed
    computing markets.

In recognition of our new strategy and direction, today we announce that Borland
becomes INPRISE CORPORATION. INPRISE integrates the enterprise by
radically simplifying distributed computing.

Our development technology allows organizations to provide any information to
any user, anytime, anywhere. Major corporations worldwide use INPRISE's
products and services to simplify the development, deployment, and management
of distributed enterprise applications, giving them a significant competitive
advantage.

Over the next few months, INPRISE will announce a series of products that will
further accelerate our growth in the enterprise market. The cornerstone will be
our INPRISE Application Server technology that will radically simplify distributed
enterprise development, deployment, and management. The combination of this
scalable Application Server technology with our high-productivity
component-based development environments, our adherence to open, industry
standards, and our strong industry partnerships provides a clear roadmap for
INPRISE's ongoing growth.

At the same time, we will continue to support the individual developer by
continuing to enhance the Borland development products that our customers have
come to rely on. It is the combination of our long heritage of easy to use,
world-class development environments with the strength of industry-leading
object component technology that is key to our strategy. Today, we are the only
company in the marketplace to combine world-class development tools with
industry-leading object middleware and application management facilities allowing
customers to fully exploit the benefits of distributed object computing.

We invite you to share in our vision. You'll find that INPRISE is one of the most
exciting, viable, and forward-looking companies that provides the technology and
services to radically simplify the development, deployment, and management of
enterprise applications.

Sincerely,

Delbert W. Yocam
CEO and Chairman of the Board

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