Global 2000 Companies Select Borland to Elevate Software Quality and Control

Top-tier Companies Across Industries Standardize on Borland CaliberRM and Borland StarTeam to Optimize Software Delivery Processes

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. - Dec 06, 2004 : An unprecedented number of high-profile customers spanning a wide spectrum of industries and regions selected Borland CaliberRM™ and Borland StarTeam® in 2004 as their preferred requirements management and software configuration and change management solutions, Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ NM: BORL) announced today.

Companies chose to standardize with Borland, the global leader for platform independent solutions for Software Delivery Optimization, to achieve greater visibility, flexibility and control over their software development processes. CaliberRM and StarTeam are designed to help organizations automate and manage the requirements, defects or enhancements, resources, tasks, assets and workflow of projects for successful, on-time delivery of quality software.

Companies that selected Borland CaliberRM or StarTeam this year include (among others): British Telecom, Cintas, Comcast, EDS, Gap Inc., Hewlett Packard, Iberia, ICM (Informática y Comunicaciones de la Comunidad de Madrid), ING, IPZS, Jaguar Cars Ltd., MetLife, Pink Roccade, Quest Diagnostics, Sharp Labs of America, Siemens AG, Symantec, TELUS, T-Systems International, Verizon Wireless and Yokogawa Digital Computing.

"As a leader in the telecommunications industry, TELUS is always searching for ways to improve the speed and accuracy of our application development processes," said Kevin Salvadori, TELUS executive vice president, business transformation and chief information officer. "Borland's solution provides a set of best practices and tools that enable our software project teams to enhance our software development capabilities."

"With a mission to become the 'Best Embedded-Engineering Company', Yokogawa Digital Computer is committed to providing consulting and tools that help Japanese and international companies improve the development process for embedded software," said Tatsuo Kobayashi, president of Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation. "By adding Borland CaliberRM and Borland StarTeam to our solution portfolio, we believe we can further contribute to the embedded software industry by using requirements management and configuration management to maximize software development efficiency."

Visibility and automation across the delivery cycle is an important component of Software Delivery Optimization, Borland's vision for transforming today's unpredictable development process into something more manageable, repeatable and in-line with business objectives. CaliberRM and StarTeam are important elements of this strategy and are expected to play a key role in the first iteration of Borland's Software Delivery Optimization platform, code named "Themis."

"All companies face similar challenges in delivering software today, from how they reduce the risks of distributed development to how they build quality software that is flexible enough to adapt to ever-changing business requirements," said Erik Frieberg, vice president of product marketing at Borland. "But every company is also unique in their business processes and IT infrastructure. The world's top companies continue to partner with Borland because we work within their parameters and don't force them to fit within ours."

Available immediately, CaliberRM 2005 and StarTeam 2005 are the newest versions of Borland's requirements management and software configuration and change management solutions. They offer a number of new capabilities designed to make the software delivery process more disciplined, predictable and efficient.

For example, StarTeam 2005 offers shared information mining and analysis capabilities, which organizations can use to help access and analyze information across multiple distributed repositories. This, together with the new project planning and estimation capabilities in CaliberRM 2005, should improve the ability for organizations to manage development assets and ensure that projects achieve the business objectives for which they were designed.

For more information on CaliberRM and StarTeam, please visit: http://www.borland.com/us/products/.

About Borland

Founded in 1983, Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL) is the global leader in platform independent solutions for software delivery optimization. The company provides the software and services that align the teams, technology and processes required to maximize the business value of software. To learn more about delivering quality software, on time and within budget, visit: http://www.borland.com.

CaliberRM, StarTeam, and all other Borland brand and product names are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland Software Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.

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