Eiffel Software Announces Release of EiffelStudio 5.2 for Unix

Provides Ideal way to Build Reusable, Business Critical Systems for Unix

Santa Barbara, California - (December 18, 2002) - Eiffel Software today announced the release of EiffelStudio^TM 5.2 for Unix. EiffelStudio is the flagship product of the company that created the Eiffel Development Framework^TM, a simple and powerful system for developing robust, scalable, reusable software applications.

Widely regarded as a thorough, well-planned programming language, the Eiffel language serves as the foundation for the EiffelStudio development environment. Because of the efficiency of the language and the powerful tools in the environment, EiffelStudio's users are demonstrating that they can produce 2 to as much as 10 times as much usable software in the same amount of time as can be achieved using other popular languages. Eiffel has thus gained specific prominence in recent years among developers and design team leaders in challenging enterprise environments, as well as among independent development teams who create high-quality reusable applications for smaller- to medium- sized companies.

"EiffelStudio 5.2 is a great leap forward for EiffelStudio, and multiplatform development in general" stated Chris Ambarian, Exec VP of Sales and Marketing for Eiffel Software. "The future of software development is leading us toward an open environment where developers need to write and run applications on multiple platforms and systems With EiffelStudio, developers and architects can today solve a myriad of challenging situations involving multiple languages and multiple platforms.

Because of its openness developing with EiffelStudio 5.2 is a great way to create robust, reusable objects and libraries that can run on a wide variety of platforms including Unix, Linux, VMS, Windows and embedded systems. Eiffel's Design by Contract^TM feature makes it especially easy to create code that developers can safely, reliably use to create business-critical applications.

Functional improvements to EiffelStudio over the previous version include:

A faster, more efficient compiler.
A completely redesigned EiffelBuild, Eiffel Software's cross-platform GUI builder that enables developers to create applications that work identically on different platforms.
Major improvements to EiffelStudio's best-in-class debugger.
Improved speed of interactions with diagram and editor.
Additional editor functionality.
Ability to call external tools easily from within EiffelStudio.

Availability:

The enterprise version of EiffelStudio will begin shipping to Eiffel Software's existing customers over the next couple of weeks. The Free version is available immediately via the company's website, www.eiffel.com. Onsite training and consulting are also available from the company. For more information, contact us or call (805) 685-1006.

Eiffel Software is the world leader in Eiffel pure object-oriented programming tools. Founded in 1985, Eiffel Software produces proven professional tools and component libraries for business-critical and enterprise software developments. Eiffel Software's products enable their customers to output more and higher-quality software in less time than with any other development tools available. Its users span the globe, in industries ranging from large financial institutions, to technology manufacturing, to government and defense contractors, to health care providers and more.

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