Crescent announces enhanced PowerPak Pro for Visual Basic 4.0; PowerPak Pro 2.0 new products and functionality improve productivity of Visual Basic corporate developers.BEDFORD Bedford, town, England Bedford, town (1991 pop. 75,632), county seat of Bedfordshire, central England, on the Ouse River. It is an important industrial center; diesel engines, pumps, turbines, agricultural machinery, electrical equipment, and transistors , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 1995 --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 a new version of PowerPak Pro, the industry-standard suite of professional Visual Basic development tools. Combining tools from Crescent and other leading vendors with single-source support has increasingly made PowerPak Pro the choice of corporate Microsoft (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, www.microsoft.com) The most successful and influential software company. Microsoft's software and Intel's hardware pioneered the PC and revolutionized the computer industry. Visual Basic developers. PowerPak Pro Release 2.0 features enhanced application development capabilities through the inclusion of a new programming tool, Attila VB/Professional from New Technology Solutions, Inc. PowerPak Pro 2.0 also provides full support for Visual Basic 4.0 and Windows 95. Attila VB/Professional enables developers to establish and enforce default property settings and control naming standards in advance for each tool in the Visual Basic ToolBox See toolkit and toolbar. . These standards are then applied automatically at design time. This aids corporate development teams in crafting applications with a consistent "look and feel" in their VB code across applications, departments and entire enterprises. "We believe Crescent's bundling of the best, industry-leading tools into PowerPak Pro 2.0 addresses the programming and development requirements necessary to build robust corporate applications," said Dan Mezick, president of New Technology Solutions, Inc. "We are excited about working with Crescent to provide developers with tools and components to enhance VB4 development. Crescent's selection of Attila will allow us to reach a broader audience within the corporate market." PowerPak Pro 2.0 represents Crescent's first major upgrade to the product, combining the best commercially-available Visual Basic tools and components to boost team productivity during the development and deployment of corporate and client/server applications. "Visual Basic programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists are demanding increased functionality to develop more robust business applications -- and those customers look to sophisticated providers like Crescent to deliver that power," said Jennifer J. Bergantino, director of the Crescent Division. "PowerPak Pro Release 2.0 combines `best-of-breed' tools from leading vendors to create a solid Visual Basic workbench. Version 1 of PowerPak Pro has already been selected by a significant number of corporate users as their standard Visual Basic toolset. We believe the productivity enhancements of PowerPak Pro 2.0 will make this product even more attractive to corporate Visual Basic users." PowerPak Pro 2.0 is comprised of the following leading products: Professional Development Tools: o QuickPak Professional from Crescent o VSOCX and VSView OCX (OLE Control EXtension) A component software technology from Microsoft that enables a Windows program to add functionality by calling ready-made components. Generally called "OLE controls" or "OLE custom controls," they appear to the end user as just another part of from Videosoft o SpyWorks-VB from Desaware Programming Tools: o XRef from Crescent o Attila VB/Professional from New Technology Solutions, Inc. Database Access Tools: o QuickPak Professional from Crescent o TrueGrid Pro from Apex Team Programming Support: o Versions/VB from StarBase Corporation Deployment and Configuration Management: o VersionStamper from Desaware o VBCompress Pro from WhippleWare The U.S. suggested retail price for PowerPak Pro Release 2.0 is $1,395; upgrades from Release 1.X are priced at $695. Subscribers to the 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) ) program receive reduced-price upgrades. PowerPak Pro 2.0 will be available for shipping in November, 1995. Crescent, headquartered in Bedford, Mass., 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 Microsoft 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, Mass., is a leading supplier of application development and deployment software to professional IS organizations in business, government and industry worldwide. The Enterprise Division of Progress Software sells and supports the PROGRESS Version 7 application development environment (ADE) directly and through more than 2,000 Application Partners who offer thousands of enterprise client/server applications to a wide variety of industries. Progress Software operates on a global basis with 18 subsidiaries and more than 30 distributors marketing and supporting PROGRESS in over 60 countries 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. -0- PROGRESS is a registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation. PowerPak Pro is a trademark 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 or Kathy Wilson Steve Zamierowski Jim Sheehan Progress Software Corp. 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 (617) 661-7900 |
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