IBM to ship Borland’s .NET tool

BANGALORE: Borland Software Corporation has announced a global agreement with IBM to ship trial versions of Borland(r) C#Builder, a development environment for .NET Framework-based development, with DB2. Borland will also ship IBM DB2 Universal Developer's Edition with Borland C#Builder for the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Our ongoing relationship with IBM is designed to help enterprise customers developing high-performance database solutions with the .NET Framework," said Satyen Parikh, Managing Director, Indian Subcontinent, Borland. "Providing DB2 database software with C#Builder enables businesses to accelerate development of database solutions. This agreement continues the Borland tradition of helping companies build better software, faster on their platform of choice."

The recently announced Borland C#Builder IDE is designed for heterogeneous enterprise environments, supporting database choice and flexibility. The agreement with IBM underscores the Borland strategy to provide customers complete solutions for developing, deploying and managing the entire application lifecycle for the Microsoft .NET Framework without vendor lock in.

“We're pleased to team with Borland to provide customers with a powerful enterprise database development solution for the Microsoft .NET Framework”, said Lauren Flaherty, vice president of marketing, IBM Data Management Solutions.