Inprise Corp, the company formerly known as Borland, has promised to announce its new application server by the end of the month. The Scotts Valley, California organization changed its name in April in an attempt to move away from its label as a struggling tools developer and show its commitment to the enterprise space (CI No 3,400). At the same time, Inprise said it would introduce an application server product by the end of the calendar year. While Inprise is not revealing much about the new Integrated Transaction Server application server, it has said that ITS will be licensed to third party organizations, and licensees of its VisiBroker Object Request Broker will get first refusal. According to press reports circulating at the beginning of the week, Inprise now believes that companies solely in the ORB business have very little future. The company has refused to comment on whether it is talking to Microsoft Corp about licensing its Component Object model. (CI No 3,440).
