CodeGear™ Accelerates Web Development with New Version of its Visual Development Environment for PHP

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. – April 14, 2008 – CodeGear, a leader in developer tools, today announced Delphi for PHP2.0.  Delphi for PHP is the onlyPHP Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for rapidly building interactiveweb applications using visual drag-and-drop design capabilities and a powerfulPHP component framework. 

The new 2.0 version focuses on making PHP webdevelopment even easier in several key areas:

• HTML templates with embedded dynamic PHP, enabling PHP developers to work visually in their Web 2.0 development and to collaborate easily with HTML designers
• Comprehensive and seamless database support for MySQL™, CodeGear InterBase®, Microsoft® SQL Server®, Oracle®, PostgreSQL, Informix®, Sybase®, SQL Anywhere® and IBM® DB2™, plus the ability to build rich data-driven web applications without requiring database connectivity coding
• An expanded and faster Visual Component Library (VCL) for PHP with support for popular PHP packages and libraries including Zend Framework
• Productivity and performance enhancements throughout including new error insight, source code formatting, expanded code insights and code folding
• Powerful new PHP debugging features and new integrated PHP performance profiling and tuning for achieving maximum applications performance

“CodeGear revolutionized web development with the release ofDelphi for PHP. It gave us countless innovations including speed,increased productivity and ease of maintenance," said Ricardo Mendes, CEOof RBM Web, based in Brazil. "Because we develop high-performancefinancial applications, we must be able to implement new routines very quickly.This capability, along with the new HTML template system, easy access to the Oracledatabase, integrated help functionalityand language translation in Delphi for PHP 2.0 are all very important to ourbusiness.”

Said Michael Swindell, CodeGear Vice President of Products, “With theinitial introduction of Delphi for PHP, we brought together PHP and rapidapplication development for the first time.  With version 2.0, we are raising thebar in every area with faster performance across the board and a wide array ofnew productivity, debugging, and performance tuning features and much broader ‘out-of-the-box’support for databases and popular PHP packages and libraries. But perhaps themost significant advance is the new HTML template system which enables PHPdevelopers to seamlessly build rich PHP applications against HTML templates fordesign flexibility and easy customization with popular HTML tools.”

PowerfulDatabase Development Capabilities and Ease of Use Benefit PHP Developers

Any developer can take advantage of Delphi for PHP 2.0to build PHP applications visually in just minutes. Database developers, forexample, who want to create intranet and Web applications can natively connectthem to their database and use drag-and-drop components to connect, display andedit data. For Microsoft Visual Studio® ASP.NET™ developers as well as CodeGearDelphi and C++Builder® developers, the product offers a familiar visual andcomponent-based approach to Web 2.0 PHP development that reduces the learningcurve and increases overall development productivity and reuse. For experiencedPHP developers, Delphi for PHP 2.0 offers an easy way to componentize any PHPcode to make it easier to use and reuse as well as expanded capabilities,flexibility, and visual development only previously available in popular toolsfor Windows and .NET.

“ZendFramework has evolved very quickly to become the leading application frameworkfor PHP.  We are excited to seeCodeGear add support for Zend Framework to its Delphi for PHP 2.0 product,”said Mark de Visser, Chief Marketing Officer for Zend Technologies. “The Delphiecosystem is known for its scale and its skilled developers. PHP and ZendFramework will benefit greatly from the innovation this will bring to ourcommunities.”  

U.S. Pricing and Availability

Delphi for PHP 2.0 can be ordered today, and isavailable for a special introductory price of $249 through the end of June2008.  Upgrades from Delphi for PHP1.0 are currently $179. Special discounts for academic users, volume purchasesand electronic delivery are also available.   For more information on the product, visit http://www.codegear.com/products/delphi/php.

About CodeGear

CodeGearfrom Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL) delivers innovative,high-productivity development tools for a wide spectrum of software developersranging from individuals to enterprise teams. CodeGear products enabledevelopers to freely develop on their platform of choice while focusing onsimplifying complex technologies and tasks so they can concentrate onapplication design, not infrastructure, to enable on-time project delivery.With more than 3.2 million users in more than 29 countries, CodeGear supportssome of the most demanding vertical industries including financial services,telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare and government. To learn moreabout CodeGear and its products, visit www.codegear.com. CodeGear. WhereDevelopers Matter.