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Inprise/Borland
www.borland.com

SCOTTS VALLEY, CA., September 28, 2000 - Inprise/Borland (Nasdaq: INPR) today announced that Bankenes Betalingssentral (BBS), Norway's clearing house, has chosen VisiBroker® 4.0 tointegrate its existing customer information systems, and JBuilder™ 3.5 to develop an extranet between BBS and its banking partners. Inprise technology will simplify and accelerate BBS partner access toinformation required for processing and clearing transactions.

BBS provides clearing services to all banks in Norway. It processes about fifty percent of all billing transactions in the country and is linked toover fifty thousand shops in Norway providing instant payment and cash services. The current system handles up to2 million transactions per day. BBS' extranet went live in May 2000 providing online banking and clearing facilities toover fifteen banks in Norway, including Norway's three main banks, Den norske Bank, Sparebanken Nor and K-Bank.

"Inprise/Borland was the obvious choice for BBS," commented Francois Hoffman, IT architect at BBS. "We were faced with two problems: we wanted tointegrate all of our existing databases, and then share that information with our partners. By using VisiBroker we were able tostandardize all our systems on CORBA® and then link these systems to a secure extranet using JBuilder. Utilizing the industry's leading CORBA implementation allows us tofuture-proof our investment."

"We are very encouraged that the major banks in Norway have recognized the power and interoperability of JBuilder and VisiBroker. Another financial services institution has opted for Inprise/Borland technology to provide the infrastructure for its systems," said Mika Alapiessa, sales and marketing director, Inprise/Borland, Northern and Eastern Europe, Mediterranean and Middle East. "VisiBroker provides BBS with a scalable and flexible middle-tier integration platform and strong links intoJava®."

Leveraging VisiBroker's scalability and platform support, BBS has integrated a number of existing systems on Tandem, UNIX and Windows NT® platforms, and developed a multi-tier application torationalize many business processes. BBS chose Inprise/Borland's JBuilder tocreate a web-based application to allow banks to gain rapid, secure access to all bank and customer information that they held in their databases. JBuilder's interoperability with VisiBroker provided clear advantages for Java development. Using JBuilder, BBS has simplified and streamlined many services that it provides tobanks. Registering of contracts, uploading of legal documents, bill imaging, and transaction checking can now be viewed and processed online.

VisiBroker® is designed to help users build and deploy distributed enterprise applications that are scalable, flexible, easily maintained and based on industry standards.

About Inprise/Borland
Inprise Corporation (referred toin this press release as Inprise/Borland) is a leading provider of Internet access infrastructure and application development tools and services for all major platforms, including Linux®, Solaris™ and Windows®. Founded in 1983, Inprise/Borland is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, with operations and offices worldwide in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Latin America, The Netherlands, Singapore, Taiwan and United Kingdom.

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