Testimonials from the Industry

Chris Griffin, Chicago Board Of Trade – Largest Futures Exchange in the world:

“By using Eiffel in the development of the new price reporting system at the CBOT, we are now able to list new products quickly and easily configure existing products to meet the rapidly changing needs of the markets. Eiffel allows us to make other more complicated changes quicker because of the pure O-O methodologies incorporated in and stressed by the language.”

David Stevens, AXA Rosenberg - Leading Global Mutual Fund Manager

"Our employees now have a better, faster way to learn how to contribute best to the company. Our new ability to share knowledge shortens the learning curve by 50%, and takes employees 50% further in their understanding of our business."

Dr. Mark Howard, AXA Rosenberg - Leading Global Mutual Fund Manager

"We’ve been using Eiffel for ten years here and every new thing that we put into it reinforces the feeling that doing business any other way would have been misguided. Our industry has changed over time; development is now a much different activity than it used to be. Using something like EiffelStudio enables us to develop our ideas, rather than our implementations. What ends up happening is you can address business problems, not programming problems. It gets right to the point on what the company strives to do, allowing it to better fulfill its mission."

Christopher Creel, Hewlett Packard

"We feel that Eiffel is the perfect embedded language. Eiffel is an ideal solution for medium to large-scale embedded applications".

Darren Hiebert, Northrop Grumman

"Without a doubt, the selection of the software language affects program costs significantly. We make goals for ourselves as to what capabilities we will have in our next release. I’ve worked with C++, and I’d be willing to estimate that it would take at least two times longer to develop it in that language as opposed to Eiffel."

Roger Osmond, EMC Corporation

"With EiffelStudio the company achieved productivity gains of 10 to 20x relative to their non Eiffel developers".

Rex Fowler, Fowler Software - Independent Software Developer

"By using EiffelStudio we save as much as half, sometimes more, in development and maintenance costs because you don't need extra modules to address the entire development cycle. Between January 2000 and March 2002, we tripled our revenues."

Todd Plessel, Environmental Protection Agency

In practice, ISE Eiffel's "write-and-generate-once-then-recompile-anywhere" turns out to be superior to Java's attempt at "write-once-run-anywhere".

Peter Coffee, EWeek Group - Leading Industry Analyst

“Languages such as Eiffel were at least a decade ahead of .Net...."

Thomas Murphy, Meta Group - Leading Industry Analyst

"Become familiar with methods such as Design by Contract. As organizations seek to drive reuse and build reliable Web services, assertions and Design by Contract help them ensure they meet requirements".