Eiffel Software Announces Release of EiffelStudio 5.5 for SGI

Software Enables Customers to Drastically Lower Development Costs

Santa Barbara, California – (November 9, 2004) – Eiffel Software today announced the production release of EiffelStudio™ 5.5, the latest version of its award-winning development environment for the SGI platform. EiffelStudio is the cornerstone of the Eiffel Development Framework™, a simple and powerful system for developing mission critical software applications at a fraction of the cost of other tools.

EiffelStudio is based on the widely acclaimed Eiffel programming language and is the only IDE which covers the full software lifecycle. Thanks to the power of the language and the tools of the environment, EiffelStudio’s users continuously demonstrate that they can produce 2 to as much as 10 times as much software in the same amount of time as can be achieved using other IDEs and toolsets. Eiffel has thus gained prominence in recent years among developers and design team leaders in challenging enterprise environments in the financial, insurance and government sectors as well as among independent development teams.

“Software is a crucial element when cutting company costs and EiffelStudio is the ideal tool to realize those savings,” said Larry Miller, Director of Marketing at Eiffel Software. “Because of Eiffel’s plain English syntax, seamless coverage of the full software lifecycle and unique Design by Contract™ mechanism, developers are able to write up to one million lines of code, thus reducing their bottom line ROI and empowering savvy business leaders to advance their organizations. We are excited that our users on SGI, building sophisticated applications can now us the most recent of EiffelStudio.”

EiffelStudio 5.5 on SGI is an excellent tool to create robust, reusable objects and libraries. Eiffel’s Design by Contract™ feature makes it especially easy to write bug-free code that developers can safely and reliably use to build business-critical applications.

Features of EiffelStudio 5.5 include:

• Increased compiler speed
• Docking facilities for various tools of EiffelStudio
• Improved debugger for .NET
• Implemented some of the new features of the Eiffel language which have been approved by the ECMA committee working on a standard for Eiffel. It includes the `convert’ and `reference’ keywords.
• Numerous new features and mechanisms

According to developers joining the Eiffel community, 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 EiffelStudio will shortly begin shipping to Eiffel Software’s existing customers. It will also be available via the company’s website, http://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 (a division of ISE) 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, technology manufacturing, government and defense contractors, to health care providers and more.

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