Borland International Inc unveiled the second phase of its Internet and intranet strategy at its development conference yesterday, which it says will enable users to add Internet tools on top of their existing client-server infrastructures. Borland says the second half of its strategy – the first was to Internet-enable its Delphi, C++ and Visual dBase languages – hinges on the IntraBuilder line, a family of Web-based application development suites for Windows NT and Windows 95. Borland hasn’t announced which Web server will ship with IntraBuilder, although it said yesterday it will bundle Netscape FasTrack server software as part of a larger agreement with Netscape Communications Corp. Borland hasn’t set pricing for IntraBuilder. Developers will be able to create live-data applications with IntraBuilder, IntraBuilder Professional and Intrabuilder Client/Server, which support Java applets, JavaScript and ActiveX controls, Borland said. Pre-release versions of IntraBuilder are available from Borland’s Web page and the final version will ship this fall. IntraBuilder supports any Web server running under Windows NT and Windows 95 that supports Netscape’s server plug-in API, Microsoft’s ISAPI or CGI. Meanwhile, Borland licensed some of the Netscape Open Network Environment (ONE) – see story above – as part of Borland’s Internet/intranet strategy which involves the bundling of FasTrack and Netscape Navigator Gold Premium Internet client software with some of its software development products. Borland also announced that Sun Microsystems Inc’s JavaSoft division will use Borland’s BAJA component event model in the draft specification for its Java Beans component model specification.
