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Notiziario Marketpress di
Lunedė 17 Aprile 2000 |
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INPRISE/BORLAND AND HITACHI STRENGTHEN CO-DEVELOPMENT RELATIONSHIP WITH AMENDMENTS TO TEN-YEAR LICENSING AGREEMENT
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Scotts Valley, California - April 17, 2000 Inprise/borland Corporation (Nasdaq: Inpr) and Hitachi Ltd. (Tse: 6501, Nyse: Hit), one of the worldīs leading vendors of reliable enterprise software systems, today announced that they have signed a worldwide amendment to an existing licensing agreement for Corba and Java Development Technology. Under the terms of the new agreement, the research and development laboratories of the two organizations will each begin to share their own innovations to Inprise/borlandīs Visibroker product line, including source code for functional innovation, technical enhancement and quality improvement. Amendments to the current agreements extend the relationship between the two companies, reaching back to 1995, for co-developing Corba-based products and will broaden the commitment of the two organizations to share Enterprise middleware technical innovations. As provided in a previous agreement, Hitachi will continue to license Inprise/borlandīs Visibroker Corba object request broker (Orb) and Inpriseīs Java development technology for inclusion in Hitachiīs Corba technology products, such as Tpbroker product suite and the Cosminexus Application Server*. [*Cosminexus Application Server is currently marketed only in Japan. ] Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Inprise/borland and Hitachi also continue to discuss further co-development and joint marketing activities. Shoji Yamamoto, Executive General Manager, Software Division, Hitachi, Ltd. Said, "This enhancement of the agreement strengthens our product and service offering significantly, especially to our mission critical system customers, sharing innovations between Inprise/borland and Hitachi. We are very confident that the combination of Inprise/borlandīs Visibroker and Hitachiīs reliable software products will continue to be the best solution for enterprise customer". "This agreement is exciting because it is an example of yet another major technology company looking to Inprise/borland to provide the basis for their technologies", said Dale Fuller, president and Ceo of Inprise/borland. "It sends a further message to the market that Inprise/borland is a leader in providing cutting edge technologies to the middleware market". Gari Grimm, Senior Vice President, Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc. Welcomed the closer working ties with a major innovative middleware vendor. "Corba based solutions are already widely used in mission critical e-business systems including telecom and financial markets. This agreement will improve our supporting capability significantly to our customers using Corba based e-business solutions". Infolnik: http://www. Hitachisoftware. Com http://www. Hitachi. Co. Jp http://www. Borland. Com. |
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