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.

EiffelStudio^TM 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.
EiffelEnvision^TM - Building on the strength of its success with EiffelStudio, Eiffel Software has introduced EiffelEnvision, the only Eiffel-language plug-in for Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET. This powerful new tool opens up a whole new world of capabilities for the many developers working with Microsoft Visual
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-five years.

2009

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
March	Eiffel Software participates in the High Confidence Software and Systems Conference in Baltimore

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.
February	Eiffel Software is awarded a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract by the United States Navy.
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.