I'm posting this because it pertains to Borland..
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The following is a letter from Del Yocam,
Inprise CEO, regarding the announcement of
Borland's name change to Inprise Corporation.
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Dear Valued Customers:
As many of you have already heard through
industry news, Borland announced a name change
on April 29, 1998.  We are now Inprise
Corporation, dedicated to the radical
simplification of enterprise computing.  I'd
like to take a moment now to 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 February 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
Jud McCranie
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