ANNOUNCING DELPHI 5
Borland Corporation announced (07/19/99) a major new version of its award-winning rapid application development tool for Windows.Designed to help individual and corporate developers rapidly deliver Windows applications, as well as extend those applications to the Internet, Delphi 5 radically simplifies the integration of Windows and browser clients, web servers, middleware and back-end database systems.
Pricing
Customers may place orders immediately on the Web at www.borland.com and later in the quarter with major software distribution channels.
Delphi 5 is expected to hit the channel next month in three editions:
Current owners of any Borland Client/Server or Enterprise product can purchase Delphi 5 Enterprise for an ESP of $1,699. Current owners of any Borland Professional product can purchase Delphi 5 Enterprise for an ESP of $2,199. Current owners of other Borland development tools products can purchase Delphi 5 Professional for an ESP of $249.95. Current owners of competing products, like Visual Basic or PowerBuilder, can purchase Delphi 5 Professional for an ESP of $299.95.
Try the beta at Borlands comunty site http://community.borland.com.
Features
Key features of the Delphi 5 Enterprise edition include support for the standard markup languages used for building Internet applications, XML and HTML 4.
For a complete overview of features in the different versions of Delphi 5 see the detailed matrix.
Inprise + Borland
Most recently, the Borland.com division, which focuses on development tools, and the Inprise division, which focuses on enterprise and middleware software for businesses, were folded back into one.
