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Country of Poland Teaches REALbasic to 60,000 Students in 600 High Schools

AUSTIN, Texas, USA (July 24, 2007)— REAL Software, provider of REALbasic and REAL SQL Server, today announced that the Poland Ministry of Education and Science has purchased additional REALbasic software licenses to teach programming in schools across Poland. Today, 60,000 students in 600 lyceums are learning REALbasic in the classroom. Lyceums are high schools for students aged 16-19.

"We are very excited with the success Poland has been having teaching REALbasic in lyceums all across the country," said Geoff Perlman, President and CEO of REAL Software. "REALbasic is the ideal environment to use in computer programming classrooms as it is a modern, object-oriented version of BASIC that is easy to teach and fun to learn."

"The Ministry of Education and Science was looking for a programming environment to replace Visual Basic to teach programming on the Macintosh and we found REALbasic a few years ago," commented Malgorzata Charezinska, Education Manager for Apple Poland. "We now teach it in our informatics program, covering systems management and computer programming. The students really enjoy learning and creating applications with a strong development environment that is easy to use."

REAL Software offers the REALbasic Curriculum, which is a methodology for teaching an introductory course in computer programming. It can be downloaded from http://www.realsoftware.com/curriculum.

About REALbasic

REALbasic is a full-featured software development environment suited to creating all kinds of applications, from utilities to enterprise-class applications. REALbasic for Windows or Mac is priced at $200, with an introductory price of $99. REALbasic for Linux Standard Edition is offered for free. REALbasic Professional Edition, required for cross-platform deployment, is $500. REALbasic is available now and can be downloaded directly from REAL Software at www.realsoftware.com/download.

About REAL Software

REAL Software, creator of REALbasic and REAL SQL Server, provides solutions for people who want to create and deliver cross-platform software for Windows, 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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