CRESCENT ANNOUNCES IMMEDIATE AVAILABILITY OF POWERPAK ENTERPRISE EDITION RELEASE 2.0; Crescent Extends Special Upgrade Pricing for Current Customers.Bedford, Massachusetts Bedford is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is within the Greater Boston area, some 15 miles north-west of the city of Boston. The population of Bedford was 12,595 at the 2000 census. , USA, May 9, 1996--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Crescent crescent, emblematic representation of the quarter moon. The crescent and star, ancient Byzantine symbols that became the emblems of Constantinople, were also assumed as the standard of the Ottoman Turks. Division of Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : PRGS PRGS Phosphoribosylglycinamide Synthetase ) today announced the immediate availability of PowerPak Enterprise Edition, the high-end edition of its industry-standard multi-vendor suite of professional Visual Basic development tools. PowerPak Enterprise Edition has been formulated for·mu·late tr.v. for·mu·lat·ed, for·mu·lat·ing, for·mu·lates 1. a. To state as or reduce to a formula. b. To express in systematic terms or concepts. c. to provide a complete set of the industry's best Visual Basic tools in one package and provides full support for Visual Basic 4.0 and Windows 95. This advanced suite of development tools complements Visual Basic's Enterprise Edition, and extends Crescent's PowerPak Professional Edition by adding development, deployment and configuration tools from Crescent, Desaware, New Technology Solutions and WhippleWare, all geared to corporate and enterprise-scale applications. PowerPak Enterprise Edition addresses the limitations and frustrations of Visual Basic developers by providing a toolset that enables them to focus more on building and deploying corporate applications, and less on wading through product evaluations, reviews and product selection. Perhaps most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , PowerPak Enterprise Edition users receive Crescent's industry-leading, single-source technical support, to ensure rapid response to technical questions. The PowerPak product line is the only multi-vendor set of Visual Basic tools backed by a comprehensive maintenance and upgrade program, Crescent's Enhanced Support and Software Maintenance (ESSM ESSM European Society for Sexual Medicine ESSM Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile ESSM Exercise Science and Sports Medicine ESSM Emergency Ship Salvage Material ESSM Enterprise SQL Server Manager (Sybase) ) option. This program provides developers with regular product updates (point releases) at no charge, and major upgrades at reduced prices, as well as priority 800-number support and other wide-ranging support features. "Corporate Visual Basic developers need a toolset that will address the issues involved in developing more robust, corporate applications. PowerPak Enterprise Edition is a multi-vendor configuration that gives developers a 'leg up' in building more complex, client/server applications," said Jennifer J. Bergantino, vice president of product marketing and planning at Progress Software Corporation. "Crescent will continue to deliver best-of-breed tools through one-stop shopping to enhance enterprise application development productivity." PowerPak Enterprise Edition Release 2.0 builds upon PowerPak Professional Edition (which began shipping for VB4 in March) with additional tools and components, for large-scale application development. PowerPak Professional Edition Release 2.0 is comprised of the following industry-leading products: o QuickPak Professional from Crescent The arsensal of essential custom controls and subroutines. o True DBGrid from Apex The data bound grid of choice for power, flexibility and extensibility. o RADBench from Crescent More productivity from the VB Integrated Development Environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE (1) (Integrated Development Environment) A set of programs run from a single user interface. For example, programming languages often include a text editor, compiler and debugger, which are all activated and function from a common menu. ). o VideoSoft VS-OCX Build tabbed applications, eliminate resizing code, and quickly parse string data. o VideoSoft VSView/OCX Printing and windowing For Northcoast Where we call someone over and then roll our window up on them. Bassline preference. For Example: "Hey, Andi." *insert window being rolled up* "HAHAHA. in VB made intuitive. o XRef from Crescent Cleaner, faster code from the start. PowerPak 2.0 Enterprise Edition adds the following leading products: o ClassAction from Crescent Easy tools for accessing the Windows API The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is the name given by Microsoft to the core set of application programming interfaces (APIs) available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems. and building more powerful applications. o SpyWorks-VB from Desaware Tools to harness the full power of Windows from Visual Basic. o Atilla-VB Pro Edition from New Technology Solutions, Inc. Integrated Development Environment (IDE) enhancement tools for team developers. o VersionStamper from Desaware Application distribution tools for Visual Basic. o VBCompress Pro from WhippleWare The most complete code compression utility See archive program. for Visual Basic. Pricing Plan PowerPak Enterprise Edition Release 2.0 is priced as follows: Customer/Product Category Suggested List Price (U.S.) Suggested Retail (List) Price $1399 Upgrade from PowerPak Pro Release 1.X $699 Upgrade from PowerPak 2.0 Professional Edition to Enterprise Edition $699 The Enhanced Support and Software Maintenance (ESSM) Program is priced as follows: Customer/Product Category Suggested List Price (U.S.) Suggested Retail (List) Price $249 With Purchase of PowerPak product $179 All ESSM prices are based on a one-year subscription per developer seat. To complement the availability of PowerPak Enterprise Edition, Crescent also announced special, limited-time pricing for its installed-base customers. Owners of any current Crescent product, with proof-of-purchase, may buy PowerPak Enterprise Edition at a special introductory price of $699, through July 30, 1996. This offer is open to all registered users of Crescent products, and is available only by direct-order through Crescent. PowerPak Enterprise Edition Release 2.0 can be purchased through Crescent resellers worldwide, and directly from Crescent at 800-352-2742. Outside the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , users can call 01-617-280-3000. Crescent is also accessible by sending e-mail to crescent@progress.com. About the Company Crescent, headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, is dedicated to enhancing the success of Visual Basic developers by delivering tools and services that heighten height·en v. height·ened, height·en·ing, height·ens v.tr. 1. To raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify. 2. To make high or higher; raise. v.intr. their productivity and provide the foundation for creating reliable, scalable, business-critical applications. By leveraging a 10-year track record of developing successful tools and components for the BASIC and Windows/Visual Basic environments, Crescent provides components and corporate and client/server solutions to its customers worldwide. Through constant interaction with application developers, Crescent develops and markets a broad array of products, services and support options uniquely suited to the corporate Visual Basic market. -0- PROGRESS is a registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation. QuickPak and Crescent are registered trademarks of Crescent Software, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Progress Software Corporation. PowerPak Pro, PowerPak Professional Edition, PowerPak Enterprise Edition, RADBench, Xref and ClassAction are trademarks of the Crescent Division of Progress Software Corporation. Microsoft, Windows and Visual Basic are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, . All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Tom Varriale Jim Sheehan Stephen Zamierowski Kimberly Miller Crescent/Progress The Weber Group (617) 280-4353/4360 (617) 520-7030/7034 crescent@progress.com jsheehan@webergroup.com Web URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://crescent.progress.com kmiller@webergroup.com |
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