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Novell Announces Business Relationship Between Its TUXEDO System Division And Borland International Inc. Joint Development and Marketing Programs Provide Customers With Ideal Software Development Environment for Quickly Creating and Deploying Mission-Critical Business Applications Summit, N.J., February 14, 1995-- In response to customer need for additional application development tools for its TUXEDO product line, Novell, Inc., today announced a business relationship between its TUXEDO System Division and Borland International Inc. for Delphi, Borland's new high performance visual application design tool for Microsoft Windows. TUXEDO is a flexible application development and runtime architecture for the implementation of business-critical, distributed client/server applications, and a key component of the enterprise computing solution set, which includes TUXEDO, NetWare and UnixWare. (See related Delphi product announcement from Borland.) Through this agreement, Novell's TUXEDO System Division and Borland will form a business relationship for joint development and marketing programs for their respective products, and Novell will ensure that its TUXEDO product line fully supports Delphi. TUXEDO currently provides customers with a choice of 35 different platforms, and can operate with virtually all clients on the market today. "Our partners, like Borland, are key to Novell's goal to deliver products that are reliable, easily managed and provide a flexible, scalable platform to meet the changing needs of tomorrows networks," said Joe Menard, vice president and general manager, Novell's TUXEDO System Division. Delphi is a breakthrough product that uniquely combines a native code compiler, visual tools and scalable database technology for the rapid development of Microsoft Windows and client/server applications. TUXEDO and Delphi together provide rapid application development and fast performance with client/server scalability to create an ideal software development environment for customers creating line of business applications. "Customers today want tools that enable them to create client/server applications based on scalable database technology using object oriented tools," said Menard. "We are pleased to be working with Borland and its Delphi product to provide much needed rapid application support for production quality client/server and Windows applications." "With more than 10 years of solid compiler experience, we are combining a state of the art compiler with visual development and scalable database technology to provide the industry with a uniquely powerful application design tool for Windows," said Karen Frederiksen, vice president of Client/Server at Borland. "By combining our expertise in visual application design with TUXEDO's application partitioning and management capabilities, we feel we are enabling our customers to rapidly create and quickly deploy mission-critical business applications." TUXEDO System 5, the latest release of TUXEDO, enables customers to have the flexibility to deploy large distributed systems, and to easily expand or change their systems through one of TUXEDO's newest features, /Domains. With /Domains, customers can also easily manage TUXEDO servers in administratively autonomous groups called domains, and set parameters for the interactions between domains. TUXEDO System 5 also extends TUXEDO interoperability to include DCE and other non-TUXEDO environments. Novell's TUXEDO system provides an architecture for implementing mission-critical business applications in distributed, client/server environments. TUXEDO is the market leading transaction processing environment which provides secure, cost-effective, high performance electronic commerce for use in industries such as banking, telecommunications, finance and retail. The business of Novell, Inc., is connecting people with other people and the information they need, enabling them to act on it anytime, anyplace. Novell is the world's leading network software provider. The company's software products provide the distributed infrastructure, network services, advanced network access and network applications required to make networked information and computing an integral part of everyone's daily life.
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