Forgive me if you've seen this, but thought it'd be interesting to
some given the recent discussion of Interbase...
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Inprise/Borland is teaming with a range of unnamed venture capitalist organisations to fund the spinoff of a new
companyto house its Interbase database.<p>The move is the latest in a long succession of spinoffs by the development
toolssupplier, which has to date ended up rolling former subsidiaries back into to its core business. Last week, Corel
announcedplans to take over Inprise/Borland.<p>Dale Fuller, Inprise/Borland's interim chief executive, said: "By
combiningthe Interbase technology with an experienced management team in a startup environment, we are enabling users
toleverage the power of this world class database for multiple platforms."<p>The firm will take some of the cash for
thenew venture from a $60 million fund that it announced in January to invest in startups that are developing
applicationsbased on Linux, Internet and wireless technology.<p>The new Interbase company will be headed by Ann
Harrison,one of the founders of the original Interbase that was taken over by Borland. Paul Beach, who is based in the
UKand will remain so, will become vice president of sales.<p>Back in January, Inprise/Borland announced that the
upcomingrelease, version 6.0, would support two more operating environments, Linux and Sun Microsystems' Solaris, on
topof its traditional Microsoft Windows and Novell Netware platforms. The company also said it would release Interbase
sourcecode to the open source community.<p>But another joint founder, Don DePalma, has expressed concern at the open
sourceplan. Because of the complexity of Interbase, he claimed: "You really don't want non-experts mucking about with
it."<p>Butthe source code is scheduled to be available by the middle of this year. Marilee Adams, Inprise/Borland's
vicepresident of corporate communications, said: "The licensing agreement will put the users in control and that is a
goodthing."
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