1.   Apple Computer Inc. and IBM said Friday that they were folding one of their three joint ventures, Kaleida Labs Inc., which makes programming tools for multimedia software.

2.   Baratz also charged that Microsoft has secretly altered Java code in their programming tools to make them appear to meet the standard, when in fact they do not.

3.   Borland, which publishes software that helps professional programmers write other software, said its Delphi programming tool is selling slower than expected.

4.   Borland, once the biggest vendor of computer languages and programming tools, is falling behind as Microsoft rapidly improves its products, analysts said.

5.   But some software experts and customers are worried that because different suppliers use different programming tools, the promise of data communicating seamlessly across the Web will be lost.

6.   Compuware, based in Farmington Hills, Mich., makes programming tools for debugging, analyzing and managing mainframe software.

7.   Data Dimensions offers programming tools and a set of procedures to fix the problem.

8.   Delphi is a visual programming tool.

9.   Illustra makes a complex type of database software and programming tools for the Internet.

10.   In recent years, new software languages and programming tools have made it easier for code writers to express their ideas.