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REAL Software Announces Mac OS X Strategy for 2006: REALbasic to Support Cocoa

AUSTIN, Texas, USA (January 9, 2006)— REAL Software, provider of REALbasic, cross-platform that really works, announced today that REALbasic will support Cocoa, Apple Computer's framework for Mac OS X software development.

"Adding Cocoa support to REALbasic clearly affirms our commitment to the Mac," stated Geoff Perlman, president and CEO of REAL Software. "Cocoa support will enable us to incorporate great new technologies from Apple more quickly and more easily than ever before, and will result in better, more feature-rich software for Mac OS X."

"REALbasic is our preferred development environment because it really improves our productivity," stated Bryan Lund, principal developer at independent software vendor Radical Breeze. "However, we recently had to use a different development tool that provided Cocoa support. When REALbasic supports Cocoa, we will definitely be using REALbasic exclusively once again, and we're looking forward to the speed and ease of development we'll gain by using REALbasic."

REAL Software is building a new REALbasic platform layer based on Apple's Cocoa framework. Major 3rd party REALbasic plug-in developers plan to support the new REALbasic Cocoa framework as well.

Intel-based Mac Support

Concurrent with Cocoa support, REAL Software will also deliver support for Universal Binaries, Apple's technology that enables a single application to run natively on both Intel and PowerPC architectures.

Pricing and Availability

Support for Cocoa and Universal Binaries will ship later this year and will be delivered via the REALbasic Rapid Release model. Any customer with a current update plan at the time of release will have access to these new features at no additional cost.

About REALbasic

REALbasic is a full-featured software development environment suited to creating all kinds of applications, from utilities to enterprise-class applications. REALbasic is available now starting at $99.95 direct from REAL Software. REALbasic Professional Edition, required for cross-platform deployment, starts at $399.95 and includes more advanced features.

About REAL Software

REAL Software provides REALbasic, Cross-Platform That Really Works, for people who want to create and deliver cross-platform software for Macintosh, Windows and Linux. 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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