Eiffel Software Announces Release of EiffelStudio 5.7

Latest release implements Refactoring, Metrics, new Configuration Management and offers an Open Source Option

Santa Barbara, CA, October 25, 2006 -- Eiffel Software announced today the release of EiffelStudio 5.7, the latest version of its award-winning Integrated Development Environment (IDE). This version brings refactoring facilities, powerful metrics, new configuration management and a variety of new features and mechanisms to the environment. Additionally, EiffelStudio comes with both a commercial and an Open Source license.

"The new facilities EiffelStudio 5.7 brings are essential to the production of quality software that is easy to update and reuse" said Emmanuel Stapf, head of the Compiler Division at Eiffel Software. "We are proud to continue enhancing our offering so that our users keep the competitive advantage that EiffelStudio has given to them since its first release in 1985."

EiffelStudio comes with a host of new features, including:

• Refactoring facilities.
• Powerful metrics.
• New configuration management to make it easy to compile/deploy applications on more than one platform.
• Numerous other new features and mechanisms can be found here.

Portability has always been one of the strengths of EiffelStudio, and this new release continues in that same tradition. EiffelStudio 5.7 is available on the following platforms:

• Windows Classic, .NET, and 64 bits
• Linux, Linux PPC and 64 bits
• FreeBSD
• Solaris 10 on Sparc, Sparc 64, and x86
• SGI Irix
• VMS, Embedded ...

With this latest release, Eiffel Software enters the Open Source community.

"We are excited to offer our users the choice between a commercial and an Open Source version of EiffelStudio" said Larry Miller, Director of Business Development at Eiffel Software. "As software systems become more and more complex, developers need to know that their software providers have nothing to hide and play in the open. They want to have access to the heart of the technology that they decide to use. This new version does just that; it allows developers to explore what makes EiffelStudio different and how these differences will make their lives easier."

EiffelStudio is based on the widely acclaimed Eiffel programming language, a pure object-oriented language. Its core concepts, native only to Eiffel, such as Design-by-Contract, multiple inheritance, genericity... allowing developers to write high quality applications that are easy to maintain. Eiffel has thus gained prominence in recent years among developers and design team leaders in challenging enterprise environments in the financial, insurance, manufacturing, health, and government sectors as well as among independent development teams.

About Eiffel Software

Eiffel software was founded in 1985 with the mission of developing compilers and tools based on the power of pure object-oriented concepts to improve programmers' productivity, lifecycle efficiency and quality of the resulting applications. For twenty years Eiffel Software has delivered to its customer base the most cost-effective and advanced development tools on a large variety of platforms. Thanks to the power of the language and the tools of the environment, Eiffel users continuously demonstrate that they can produce 2 to 10 times as much software in the same amount of time as can be achieved using other IDEs and toolsets. For more information, contact us or call (805) 685-1006.

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