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REAL Software Announces Public Beta of REALbasic 2005 for Linux Standard Edition to be Offered Free to Linux Developers; Ship in August

Cross-Platform That Really Works, REALbasic Enables Visual Basic Applications to Be Migrated to Linux and Mac OS X

AUSTIN, Texas, USA - (June 14, 2005)— REAL Software announced today that REALbasic 2005 for Linux, a groundbreaking new visual development environment for Linux, is available for public beta and can be downloaded now from www.realsoftware.com/demo. REALbasic 2005 for Linux Standard Edition will be offered for free when it ships in August.

"REALbasic 2005 for Linux provides a solution to two issues in the Linux market," stated Geoff Perlman, president and CEO of REAL Software. "First is the lack of a good Visual Basic-like development environment and the second is the lack of desktop software for Linux. We believe Linux users can benefit from using REALbasic's powerful, visual development capabilities."

Added Perlman, "Much of the software for Linux is available for free, including other development tools. We're pleased to announce that REALbasic for Linux Standard Edition will also be available for free."

"We use REALbasic because it provides us with the best development tool for delivering our software cross-platform for all the major desktop environments, including Windows, Macintosh and Linux," stated Douglas Lyman, founder and President of AltaPoint Data Systems, provider of Practice Management and Electronic Medical Records software. "We successfully ported significant portions of our application, and found REALbasic to be easy to use and powerful, with the capability to build native user interfaces cross-platform."

REALbasic 2005 for Linux Standard Edition makes it easy to create software for Linux and features the following:

  • Visual rapid application development (RAD) environment.
  • Highly compatible with Visual Basic and includes a utility to migrate existing applications to REALbasic.
  • Modern, fully object-oriented language that compiles to machine code.
  • REAL SQL Database, a single-user database engine based on SQLite, a public domain database engine.
  • Low and high-level networking capabilities (UDP, TCP, HTTP, SMTP, POP3).
  • Industrial-strength XML parser and generator enables you to read and write XML data with a few lines of code
  • Royalty-free software distribution.
  • Compatible with major x86 Linux distributions, including SUSE, RedHat, Mandriva/Mandrake, with GTK+ 2.0 (or higher), Glibc-2.3 (or higher) and CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System).
  • REALbasic is now made with REALbasic and is an excellent example of the kind of applications that can be developed with REALbasic.

REALbasic 2005 for Linux Professional Edition includes all Standard Edition features and more advanced features, such as:

  • Cross-platform compilation from Linux to Windows (98-XP) and Mac OS X.
  • Creation of console applications.
  • Server Socket enables the creation of powerful server applications.
  • Create multi-user database applications and connect to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, FileMaker Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase or any ODBC data source.

View a screenshot of REALbasic 2005 for Linux.

Pricing and Availability

REALbasic 2005 for Linux is available as a public beta now and can be downloaded directly from REAL Software at www.realsoftware.com/demo. When the product ships in August, REALbasic 2005 for Linux Standard Edition will be offered for free, "free as in beer" (see what this means ). REALbasic 2005 for Linux Professional Edition is offered at a special introductory price of $399.95; list price is $499.95. All REALbasic 2005 for Linux licenses include six months of updates.

About REAL Software

REAL Software provides REALbasic 2005, Cross-Platform That Really Works, for people who want to create and deliver cross-platform software for Linux, Windows and Macintosh. REALbasic is highly compatible with Visual Basic and includes a utility to help migrate Visual Basic applications cross-platform to Macintosh and Linux. REAL Software was founded in 1996 and is based in Austin, Texas. For more information visit www.realsoftware.com or call 512.328.7325.

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