About Eiffel Software
Eiffel Software is a recognized world leader in object technology. Our team is composed of experts in software engineering, software architecture, software reuse working under the leadership of O-O guru, Bertrand Meyer. Our goal is to craft the best possible tools, easy to use and extremely powerful. We believe that good tools make programmers shine, companies succeed and contribute to a better world, where everything works the way it should. Our passion is to constantly, relentlessly enhance our offerings to better serve the needs of the ever increasing challenges that the programming community face. Our uniqueness is to deliver to our customers tools that give them a competitive advantage and allow them to deliver superior value to their own customers. We eliminate wasted time, effort and cost in the development process through a simple, complete solution that just works better.
Primary Business Activities
Eiffel software offers ECMA and ISO standardized programming tools along with related training, consulting, and support services.
- EiffelStudioTM Application Development Software - Eiffel Software produces and distributes the Integrated Development Environment EiffelStudio, the market leader in Eiffel solutions. With compatibility across all major industry platforms, this complete development system is most comprehensive solution available today for developers and managers. It is used around the world by Fortune 500 companies as well as start-ups, independent consultants and university professors.
- SCOOP (Simple Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming) - an Eiffel language extension that facilitates Parallel Programming.
- Eiffel and O-O Training - A complete curriculum is available where you want it - at your own location, or at our headquarters in Santa Barbara, California.
- Eiffel Consulting and Mentoring Services - For companies that wish to accelerate their progress or temporarily augment
their staff, Eiffel Software provides access to Eiffel programmers worldwide.
Milestones since 1985
Through the development of robust, efficient and easy-to-use application development tools, we are proud to have made a difference in how software is developed, and will continue to lead in the quest for better quality software development tools. Here are some of the company's milestones of the past twenty years.
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| December | EiffelStudio 6.7 released. |
| May | EiffelStudio 6.6 released. |
| March | Bertrand Meyer receives the Harlan Mills Award. |
2009
| November | EiffelStudio 6.5 released. |
| May | EiffelStudio 6.4 released. |
| January | Eiffel gets top recognition Bertrand Meyer is elected ACM fellow. |
2008
| November | EiffelStudio 6.3 released. |
| September | Eiffel Software participates in the LASER Summer School on Concurrency and Multicore. |
| June | EiffelStudio 6.2 released. |
| May | Eiffel Software implements Attached Types in EiffelStudio. |
2007
November |
EiffelStudio 6.1 released. |
| June | EiffelStudio 6.0 released. |
March |
Eiffel gets top recognition: Bertrand Meyer wins Software Systems Award. |
| February | The Eiffel community now has a resource portal - EiffelRoom. |
January |
EiffelStudio Open Source is a finalist for the prestigious Jolt Award. |
2006
November |
Eiffel becomes an ISO Standard. |
| October | EiffelStudio 5.7 released. |
| April | EiffelStudio Open-Source released. |
| February | Eiffel for ASP.NET 2.0 released. |
| January | EiffelEnvision 2.6 released. |
2005
December |
Eiffel for ASP.NET 1.0 released. |
| September | EiffelStudio 5.6 released. |
| June | First Eiffel ECMA Standard. |
| May | EiffelEnvision 2.5 released; includes completely revised project management via Visual Studio's solution explorer and a feature complete Eiffel editor. |
| May | Eiffel for ASP .NET released. |
| February | Bertrand Meyer is awarded AITO Dahl-Nygaard Senior Award for his contributions to the field of computer science. |
| January | EiffelStudio on 64 bits released making it the first IDE available on this platform. |
2004
September |
EiffelStudio 5.5 released. |
January |
EiffelStudio 5.4 for Mac OS X released. |
2003
October |
EiffelEnvision 2.0 released. |
| October | EiffelStudio 5.4 released; includes improved multithreading, 20% performance increase. |
| October | Eiffel Software announces commitment to support Microsoft Whidbey. |
| May | Beta version of EiffelStudio for MacOS X released. |
| April | EiffelEnvision 1.2 released. |
| April | EiffelStudio 5.3 released. |
| March | EiffelVision 2 wins the Software Development Reader's Choice Award. |
| January | EiffelStudio wins the CrossRoad Award. |
2002
October |
EiffelEnvision 1.0 released. |
| October | EiffelStudio 5.2 released. |
| July | Main division of ISE renamed "Eiffel Software" to reflect Eiffel focus of the company. |
| May | EiffelStudio earns a 4-star review in Software Development. |
| March | International Eiffel standardization committee is created by ECMA. |
| March | EiffelStudio is finalist for the Jolt Award. |
2001
November |
EiffelStudio 5.1 released; includes new version of all major products and libraries: EiffelVision, EiffelVision 2 and EiffelBuild. |
| July | First fully .NET compliant version of Eiffel. |
| July | EiffelStudio 5.0 released (replaces EiffelBench). |
| June | Publication of Bertrand Meyer's .NET Training Course (Prentice Hall). |
| March | ISE signs a contract with Microsoft to join the Visual Studio Integration Program and build an Eiffel plug-in for Visual Studio .NET (the future EiffelEnvision). |
2000
November |
ISE invited to participate in the .NET ECMA Standardization Committee. |
| September | First public seminar on .NET by Bertrand Meyer, entitled ".NET in One Day". |
| July | At .NET Launch, Eiffel is presented as one of the first non-Microsoft .NET Languages. |
1999
| April | ISE signs a contract with Microsoft to port Eiffel on .NET. |
| March | EiffelBench 4.3 released; includes major language extension: agents. |
1998
February |
EiffelBench 4.2 released; introduction of the `Precursor' mechanism. |
| February | OOSC 2 wins Jolt Award (highest award for a computer book). |
1997
November |
Influential column by John Dvorak in PC magazine showcases Eiffel as a better alternative to Java. |
| June | EiffelBench 4.1 released. |
| April | Publication of "Object-Oriented Software Construction", considerably extended second edition ("OOSC-2") (Prentice Hall). |
1996
November |
EiffelBench 4.0 released; major new release for all platforms. |
| January | First version of EiffelBench for VMS. |
1994
September |
First version of EiffelBench for Windows. |
| March | First version of EiffelBench for Linux. |
1993
September |
EiffelBench 3.0 released for major Unix platforms. |
1992
June |
Publication of "Eiffel: The Language" (Prentice Hall), describing Eiffel 3. |
1990
September |
Language update (Eiffel 3) released; plans made for new version of the environment, entirely built in Eiffel, with graphical development environment (the future EiffelBench 3.0). |
1989
| November | Creation of Nonprofit International Consortium for Eiffel (NICE); language specification put in public domain. |
1988
June |
Eiffel 2 released. |
| March | Publication of "Object-Oriented Software Construction" (Prentice Hall); glowing reviews in major publications. Over the following years, about 100,000 copies sold, translations published in 8 languages. |
1986
October |
First version of Eiffel sold. |
| September | First public seminar on Object Technology by Bertrand Meyer. |
| September | Introduction of Eiffel at OOPSLA. |
| June | First implementation ready: Eiffel 1. Runs on Unix System V and SunOS. |
1985
| September | Eiffel Language designed. |
| September | Start of operations. |
| June | Interactive Software Engineering (ISE) founded. |
