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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Eiffel Software Announces Availability of EiffelStudio™ and Eiffel ENViSioN!™ on Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003Santa Barbara, California - (March 24, 2004) - Eiffel Software today announced releases of EiffelStudio 5.4 and Eiffel ENViSioN! 2.0 on Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003. Eiffel Software also announced fully integrating its solutions on the upcoming Microsoft Visual Studio “Whidbey”."By offering our products for Visual Studio .NET 2003 today and Visual Studio “Whidbey” tomorrow, we re-affirm our commitment to building a great partner ecosystem that works together to bring customer value," said Larry Miller, Marketing Director for Eiffel Software. "Software is a crucial element when cutting company cost. EiffelStudio and Eiffel ENViSioN! are ideal tools to realize those savings. Having them available on Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and later “Whidbey”, which brings developers unprecedented productivity, is a real asset for our customers". EiffelStudio is a development framework that seamlessly covers the software lifecycle. It is designed for building fast, robust, scalable applications and reusable components. EiffelStudio takes full advantage of the multi-language capability built into the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is a system which enables the production of robust, reusable objects and libraries that interoperate with all languages and tools built on top of the .NET Framework. EiffelStudio's Design by Contract™ feature makes it easy to output bug-free code that developers can safely and reliably use to develop business-critical applications. EiffelStudio's users continuously demonstrate that they can produce 2 to 10 times as much software in the same amount of time as can be achieved with other languages and toolsets. "Microsoft is pleased EiffelStudio and Eiffel ENViSioN! will integrate with Visual Studio ‘Whidbey’,” said Ari Bixhorn, lead product manager in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corp. “Our mutual customers will benefit from Eiffel ENViSioN! and EiffelStudio’s advanced capabilities to build productive and robust applications." Eiffel ENViSioN! is an Eiffel-language plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, a product that offers Eiffel users access to the full power of the Microsoft .NET Framework. Eiffel ENViSioN! features include:
According to Dr. Bertrand Meyer, Founder and Chief
Architect of Eiffel Software, "EiffelStudio and Eiffel ENViSioN! are examples of
how the Microsoft .NET Framework allows full interoperability between different
programming languages. Developers in EiffelStudio and other languages built on
top of the .NET Framework can capitalize on both the power of EiffelStudio and
the power of .NET Framework mechanisms. Our customers are reporting constant
increase of productivity through the use of our products on the .NET Framework". Availability:EiffelStudio and Eiffel ENViSioN! are available via the company's website, www.eiffel.com. Free Editions of these products are available at www.eiffel.com/downloads/. Eiffel Software is the world leader in Eiffel pure object-oriented programming tools. For more information, contact us or call (805) 685-1006. 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. |