(August 6, 2002) - Borland Software Corporation has announced Borland® Delphi^TM 7 Studio, featuring full support for new and emerging Web services, integrated model driven development, and preview capabilities for the Microsoft® .NET Framework. Using Delphi 7 Studio, the estimated one million Delphi developers can begin developing their skills for .NET and preparing applications for .NET without abandoning their existing work and skills on the Windows® platform.

Borland is the first to deliver the independent path to .NET with Delphi 7 Studio, a cross-platform rapid application development (RAD) environment for the Windows platform. Delphi 7 Studio also features enterprise application design and deployment allowing developers to take advantage of enterprise application development from concept to production faster with the new UML^TM designer and Model Driven Architecture^TM (MDA^TM) technology.

Borland® Delphi^TM 7 Studio speeds the development process by allowing developers to take an application from design to deployment while radically reducing the amount of code and development time required. Delphi 7 Studio will be shipped with the Delphi language version of Borland Kylix^TM 3, the first high-performance, visual integrated development environment (IDE) for rapidly creating database, GUI, Web, and Web services applications for the Linux operating system. New Delphi 7 Studio DataSnap licensing allows developers to seamlessly scale single-tier and client/server applications to multi-tier without additional runtime fee requirements. Delphi 7 Studio includes Windows XP Theme support, allowing developers to create applications that take advantage of Windows XP User Interface themes.

Borland Delphi 7 Studio will be available during summer 2002 in four editions: Architect, Enterprise, Professional, and Personal. A 30-day Delphi 7 Studio Architect Trial will be available as a download from www.borland.com/downloads/.