Eiffel Software Announces Release of EiffelStudio 5.4 for Mac OS X*

Quality Software meets Quality Hardware and Operating System

Santa Barbara, California - (January 21, 2004) - Eiffel Software today announced the production release of EiffelStudio 5.4 for Mac OS X*, the latest version of its award-winning development environment. EiffelStudio is the cornerstone of the Eiffel Development Framework™, a simple and powerful system for developing record breaking applications at a fraction of the cost of other languages and tools.

EiffelStudio is based on the carefully designed programming language, Eiffel. Backed by the efficiency of the language and the powerful tools in the environment, EiffelStudio's users continuously produce 2 to 10 times as much quality software in the same amount of time as can be achieved using other languages and toolsets. Eiffel has thus gained prominence over the years amongst developers and design team leaders in challenging enterprise environments in the financial, manufacturing, and government sectors.

"Software is a crucial element when cutting company costs and EiffelStudio is the ideal tool to realize those savings." said Lawrence Miller, Director of Customer Relations for Eiffel Software. "Because of Eiffel's plain English syntax and unique Design by Contract TM mechanism, each developer is able to write and maintain up to one million lines of code, reducing companies bottom line ROI and empowering savvy business leaders to advance their organizations".

EiffelStudio 5.4 is the best way to create robust, extendible and reusable objects and libraries that can run natively on a wide variety of platforms such as Linux, Unix, Windows, .NET, VMS and Embedded systems. Eiffel's Design by ContractTM mechanism makes it especially easy to prevent a variety of bugs. Robust code is easier to test, maintain and reuse.

“Offering EiffelStudio 5.4 to the Mac OS X* community will enable many of our users and prospects to enjoy the power of Eiffel on their favorite platform, Mac OS X*” says Emmanuel Stapf, head of the compiler division at Eiffel Software.

EiffelStudio 5.4 on Mac OS X* includes:

Increased compiler speed
Improved support for multithreading
Major Improvements to EiffelBuild, the GUI Builder, including:
Better conformance to the ongoing standardization process of Eiffel through ECMA
Added first support for new convert keyword
Improved speed of agent calls by a factor of 2 to 3
Support for runtime checked preconditions and post conditions on external routines
Support for effecting a deferred routine by an external one and vice versa

According to Eiffel users, the Eiffel language is among the easiest to learn. Support for users new to the language is available from the company website together with links to Eiffel user groups worldwide.

*Version 10.3 or greater

Availability:

The new release of EiffelStudio has already begun shipping to Eiffel Software's customers under maintenance, and 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 a leading provider of Eiffel pure object-oriented programming tools. Founded in 1985, Eiffel Software produces proven 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. Its users span the globe, in industries ranging from large financial institutions, technology manufacturing, government and defense contractors, to health care providers and more.

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