Crescent announces immediate availability of PowerPak Professional Edition Release 2.0; Crescent also announces special upgrade pricing for current customers.BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 1996 -- The Crescent 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 Professional Edition, the first step in its new PowerPak line, the industry-standard multi-vendor suite of professional Visual Basic development tools. PowerPak Professional Edition has been formulated to provide a core set of the industry's best Visual Basic tools in one package. PowerPak Professional Edition enhances corporate application development, and provides full support for Visual Basic 4.0 and Windows 95. Providing individual and team developers with best-of-breed tools and components from the leading Visual Basic vendors, including Crescent, Apex Software and VideoSoft, PowerPak Professional Edition is the perfect complement to Visual Basic Professional Edition. PowerPak Professional Edition also comes with Crescent's industry-leading, single-source technical support, to ensure that customers receive rapid response to technical questions, even across multiple vendors' products, and is 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. "VB developers need tools that enable rapid application development. And, they are looking to sophisticated providers such as Crescent to deliver tools that will enhance application development productivity," said Jennifer J. Bergantino, vice president of product marketing and business development at Progress Software Corporation. "PowerPak Professional Edition eliminates the time-consuming process of researching, evaluating, and testing tools that will make up their standard toolset, by equipping developers with the best-of-breed tools at a single-point of purchase. And, no matter what the issue, we provide a single point of technical support for all the products included." 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. 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 For Those Enrolled in the ESSM program $175 Coincident co·in·ci·dent adj. 1. Occupying the same area in space or happening at the same time: a series of coincident events. See Synonyms at contemporary. 2. with the availability of PowerPak Professional Edition, Crescent also announced special, limited-time pricing for its installed-base customers. For those who own any current Crescent product, with proof-of-purchase, PowerPak Professional Edition is available at an introductory price of $349, through May 30, 1996. This offer is open to all registered users of Crescent and is available only by direct-order through Crescent. 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. The PowerPak Professional Edition will be available through Crescent resellers worldwide, 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, 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. , DB2/400, ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. and Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. databases. Progress Software develops, markets and supports the PROGRESS product line that is sold directly to IS organizations and 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 were sold in 1995 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. -0- 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, RADBench, 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 Group (617) 280-4627/4360 (617) 520-7030/7034 E-mail: zam@progress.com jsheehan@webergroup.com mitsock@bedford.progress.com kmiller@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://www.progress.com/crescent |
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