REAL Software Announces Public Beta of REALbasic 2005 for Linux

TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2005 08:00 AM CDT

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 http://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.

A screenshot of REALbasic 2005 for Linux is available here: <http:// 
www.realsoftware.com/realbasic2005/lin_ide.jpg>.

Pricing and Availability
REALbasic 2005 for Linux is available as a public beta now and can be  
downloaded directly from REAL Software at http://www.realsoftware.com/ 
linux.  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 <http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FreeAsInBeer>>). 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 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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REAL Software cube logo are registered trademarks of REAL Software,  
Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks or registered  
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countries.

Contact:

Gwen Palmer
Director Marketing
REAL Software, Inc.
gwen@realsoftware.com
(512) 328-7325 x712