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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Eiffel Software Announces Release of EiffelEnvision 1.1 UpgradeEiffel-language Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio .NETSanta Barbara, California – (March 25, 2003) – Eiffel Software today announced the production release of EiffelEnvision™ 1.1, the latest iteration of its Eiffel-language plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET™ . EiffelEnvision 1.1 is an integral component of The Eiffel Development Framework™, a well-known and powerful system for creating fast, robust, scalable applications and reusable components. By basing their designs on reusable, robust business objects with Eiffel, developers have been demonstrating productivity increases on the order of 2 to10 times that which they can achieve with other popular languages. With today’s release of EiffelEnvision 1.1, the product becomes an even more convenient tool for developers looking to create the most robust, extendible applications with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. “For years, ‘Eiffel’ has been synonymous with quality software and business-critical applications – and you’ve needed EiffelStudio to use it. But for millions of developers, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET is the preferred environment. Now, those developers can access the power of the Eiffel language from within Visual Studio .NET,” said Chris Ambarian, Exec VP of Sales and Marketing at Eiffel Software. “The combination of EiffelEnvision and Visual Studio .NET enables developers to efficiently create extremely scalable, robust applications.” Since its initial release in September 2002, EiffelEnvision has already attracted several thousand users. “We’ve been gratified to see the response to this product.” Ambarian said. “We take it as confirmation of both the openness of Visual Studio .NET, and of the developers who use it.”1.1 fully supports Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET. It also utilizes The Eiffel Development Framework™ a widely known powerful system for creating fast, robust, scalable applications and reusable components. By basing their designs on reusable, robust business objects with Eiffel, developers have been demonstrating productivity increases on the order of 2 to 10 times that which they can do with other popular languages. With today’s release of EiffelEnvision 1.1, it is a more powerful tool for developers looking to create the most robust, extendible applications with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. “Microsoft is pleased to see this seamless integration of Eiffel Software with Visual Studio .NET,” said Sam Henry, technical product manager for the Developer Platform and Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corp. “EiffelEnvision enables their developers to use design tools like Design by Contract™ and multiple inheritance from within Visual Studio .NET.” Features of EiffelEnvision 1.1 include:
According to Eiffel Software, the Eiffel language is among the easiest to learn of all programming languages. Passive support for users new to the language is available from the company website, where there are also links to the many Eiffel user groups worldwide. Availability:The new release of EiffelEnvision has already begun shipping to Eiffel Software’s existing customers, and is available immediately via the company’s website, www.eiffel.com. Onsite training and consulting are also available from the company. Form 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. Product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
