Crescent "Powers Up" developer productivity with new PowerPak product set; Two editions of PowerPak further enhance productivity of Visual Basic corporate developers.BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 1996 -- 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 two new editions of its PowerPak line, the industry-standard multi-vendor suite of professional Visual Basic development tools. PowerPak Release 2.0 will be available as PowerPak Professional Edition and PowerPak Enterprise Edition. These two versions have 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 the industry's best Visual Basic tools, and to provide customers with superb value. They are targeted at enhancing corporate application development, and providing full support for Visual Basic 4.0 and Windows 95. PowerPak Professional Edition, the perfect complement to Visual Basic Professional Edition, provides individual and team developers with best-of-breed tools and components from the leading Visual Basic vendors Crescent, Apex Software and VideoSoft. The PowerPak Enterprise Edition enhances Visual Basic's Enterprise Edition, and extends the 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. Both PowerPak editions address the limitations and frustrations of corporate Visual Basic developers, who need to spend their valuable time building and deploying applications, rather than wading through hundreds of products, evaluating, testing and selecting the ones that will make up their standard toolset. Both editions also come with Crescent's industry-leading, single-source technical support, to ensure that customers receive rapid response to technical questions, even across multiple vendors' products. The PowerPak line is also the only 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. "Since the introduction of PowerPak Pro Release 1.0 in March, 1995, PowerPak has become the Visual Basic tools standard in some of the largest corporations," said Jennifer J. Bergantino, director of the Crescent Division. "The PowerPak customer list contains a number of household names History Formation (1998-2000) Household Names have been together since 1998, with various members rotating throughout the line-up with singer, Jason Garcia, until it was solidified in the summer of 2000 with bassist/keyboardist, Chris Peters, and drummer, C. J. in such wide ranging industries as technology, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , transportation and broadcasting. These companies have seen the productivity and cost-saving benefits of getting the 'best of the best' at a single point of purchase, backed by a major world-wide application tools vendor. With our two new editions in Release 2.0, this unique combination of product excellence, single-source technical support and matchless value is enhanced even further." 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 Enterprise Edition Release 2.0 extends the Professional Edition with additional tools and components, providing developers with a powerful tool suite for large-scale application development. In addition to the above Professional Edition products, PowerPak 2.0 Enterprise Edition is comprised of 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 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 Professional Edition Release 2.0 is priced as follows: Customer/Product Category Suggested List Price (U.S.) Suggested Retail (List) Price $699 Upgrade from PowerPak Pro Release 1.X $349 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. Crescent will begin shipping PowerPak Professional Edition in February. PowerPak Enterprise Edition will begin shipping in March. The PowerPak products will be available through Crescent resellers worldwide, by secure purchase through the Crescent Web site, and directly from the Crescent 800-number. Crescent can be reached within 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. by calling 800-352-2742; outside the United States, users can dial 01-617-280-3000. Crescent is on the Web at http://www.progress.com/crescent, and is also accessible by sending e-mail to crescent@progress.com. Crescent, headquartered in 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. , 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. Progress Software Corporation, also headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, is a leading supplier of application development and database software to professional IS organizations in business, government and industry worldwide. The PROGRESS product line enables developers to rapidly and economically build and deploy enterprise-class client/server applications for Oracle, Sybase, PROGRESS, SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. , and DB2/400 databases. Progress Software develops, market and supports the PROGRESS product line directly to IS organizations and through more than 2,300 Application Partners (VARs) who offer thousands of applications to a wide variety of industries. More than $1.5 billion worth of PROGRESS-based applications are sold each year by Application Partners globally. Progress Software markets and supports its products in over 60 countries through a network of 18 subsidiaries and more than 30 distributors throughout Europe, Australia, Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and Asia. # # # PROGRESS is a registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation. QuickPak is a registered trademark of Crescent Software, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Progress Software Corporation. PowerPak Pro, PowerPak Professional Edition, PowerPak Enterprise Edition, RADBench, ClassAction, XRef, and Crescent 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: Mike Mitsock Jim Sheehan Stephen Zamierowski Kim Miller Crescent/Progress The Weber Weber, river, United States Weber (wē`bər), river, c.125 mi (200 km) long, rising in the Uinta Mts., N central Utah, and flowing north and northwest to join the Ogden River at Ogden. The combined stream flows to the Great Salt Lake. Group (617) 280-4627/4360 (617) 520-7030/7034 crescent@progress.com jsheehan@webergroup.com http://www.progress.com/crescent kmiller@webergroup.com |
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