REAL Software Ships REALbasic 2005 for Linux, Brings Rapid Application
Development to Linux
AUSTIN, Texas, USA (September 13, 2005) -- REAL Software, Inc.,
providers of
REALbasic, cross-platform that really works, announced today the
company is
shipping REALbasic 2005 for Linux. REALbasic 2005 for Linux is a rapid
application development (RAD) environment that enables professional and
non-professional programmers alike to quickly create software for Linux.
"REALbasic 2005 for Linux is powerful and easy-to-use and it is
helping to
bring new software to the Linux platform," stated Geoff Perlman,
president
and CEO of REAL Software. "Because it's similar to Visual Basic, for the
first time, the more than three million Visual Basic developers
around the
world can leverage their skills to create software for Linux, or
Windows, or
Macintosh, or all three. REALbasic is cross-platform that really works."
To ease the burden of migrating existing Visual Basic applications to
Linux,
REALbasic 2005 includes a Visual Basic Project Converter and a white
paper,
"Migrate Visual Basic Applications to Linux and Mac OS X,"
<http://www.realsoftware.com/vb> .
"REALbasic is the best development tool for delivering our software
cross-platform for all the major desktop environments," states Douglas
Lyman, founder and president of AltaPoint Data Systems, provider of
Practice
Management and Electronic Medical Records software for Linux, Windows
and
Macintosh. "REALbasic 2005 for Linux provides an easy-to-use and
productive
environment that is helping us offer our software on multiple
platforms and
eliminating the common problems associated with other cross-platform
development tools."
REALbasic 2005 for Linux Standard Edition builds software for Linux and
features the following:
- Visual rapid application development (RAD) environment.
- Highly compatible with Visual Basic and includes a utility to migrate
existing applications to REALbasic.
- Modern, fully object-oriented language that compiles to machine code.
- A single-user SQL database engine based on SQLite, a public domain
database engine.
- Low and high-level networking capabilities (UDP, TCP, HTTP, SMTP,
POP3).
- Industrial-strength XML parser and generator reads and writes XML data
with a few lines of code.
- Royalty-free software distribution.
- Compatible with any x86-based Linux distribution with GTK+ 2.0 (or
higher), glibc-2.3 (or higher) and CUPS (Common UNIX Printing
System), which includes Novell Linux Desktop and Red Hat Desktop.
- Novell Ready and Red Hat Ready -- REALbasic 2005 for Linux is tested,
qualified and supported on Novell Linux Desktop and Red Hat Desktop.
REALbasic 2005 for Linux Professional Edition includes all Standard
Edition
features and more advanced features, such as:
- Cross-platform compilation from Linux to Windows 98 and higher and
Mac OS
X.
- Cross-platform remote debugging to watch your code execution on one
computer as the software runs on another.
- Creation of console applications.
- Server Socket enables the creation of powerful and scalable server
applications.
- Create multi-user database applications and connect to MySQL or
PostgreSQL.
- Create reusable custom controls.
- Make secure internet connections using SSL.
- Autodiscovery class for building network-aware applications.
Take a tour <http://www.realsoftware.com/tour> or viiew a screenshot of
REALbasic 2005 for Linux<http://www.realsoftware.com/products/
screenshots/linux/>.
Pricing and Availability
REALbasic 2005 for Linux Standard Edition is free. REALbasic 2005 for
Linux
Professional Edition, which includes six months of updates, is
offered at a
special introductory price of $399.95; list price is $499.95.
REALbasic 2005
for Linux is available now and can be downloaded directly from REAL
Software
at www.realsoftware.com/download.
About REAL Software
REAL Software provides REALbasic 2005, Cross-Platform That Really
Works, for
people who want to create and deliver cross-platform software for Linux,
Windows and Macintosh. REALbasic is highly compatible with Visual
Basic and
includes a utility to help migrate Visual Basic applications cross-
platform
to Macintosh and Linux. REAL Software releases new versions of
REALbasic in
a rapid release model <www.realsoftware.com/rapidrelease> to get new
features and software updates into the hands of developers quickly. REAL
Software was founded in 1996 and is based in Austin, Texas. For more
information visit www.realsoftware.com or call 512.328.7325.
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Software cube logo are registered trademarks of REAL Software, Inc. All
other names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective holders in the United States and other countries.
Contact:
Gwen Palmer
REAL Software, Inc.
gwen at realsoftware dot com
(512) 328-7325 x712 (office)
(512) 775-1346 (mobile)
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