ISE to Release EiffelStudio 5.0 Object-Oriented Software With .NET Capability

SANTA BARBARA, CA. - Imagine you are a computer programmer in anelevator with someone very important: a venture capitalist, yourprospective mother-in-law, or the CTO of large corporation. You need torecommend a high quality programming language that is compatible withthe .Net framework before reaching the destination floor - what do yourecommend?

Interactive Software Engineering answers this question with therelease of EiffelStudio 5.0, which delivers a new level of performanceand features to the user, offering all the advantages of C++ and Javabut without any of the drawbacks.

"We are extremely excited to be one of the first companies torelease software compatible with .NET," said Bertrand Meyer, CTO ofISE. "Eiffel for .NET will facilitate the deployment of a whole new setof services, taking advantage of the universal availability of the Web.These services will help people improve how they deal in daily lifewith numerous businesses, from banks and insurance companies toairlines and administrations. By using Eiffel for .NET our customerswill gain a huge advantage over their competition."

The highlights of EiffelStudio 5.0 include:

Integration of a text-oriented development environment and agraphical CASE tool.

Extensive portable graphical library: EiffelVision 2, takingadvantage of the latest advances in Graphical User Interfacetechnology.

New look and feel, enabling EiffelStudio to benefit from theEiffelVision 2 mechanisms: customizable toolbars, favorites, clustertree, feature tree, and a full-fledged Eiffel editor.

Spectacular improvement of the speed of the compilation process.

New debugger with powerful facilities.

Inclusion in the compiler of all the latest advances in the Eiffellanguage making it the only available tool supporting agents,multi-size basic types, generic creation and many others.

Support of Microsoft .NET on the Windows platform.

For more information on Eiffel or for a free trial version pleasevisit http://www.eiffel.com.