Thomson Software Products announces full-featured Ada development environment for $99.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 1995--Thomson Software Products announced a new release of its award-winning ActivAda development environment for Windows and Windows 95. The new release, called ActivAda Personal Edition, lists for $99. ``Our aggressive pricing strategy breaks new ground in bringing truly sophisticated Ada technology into the hands of all developers. Ada, which has long been a favorite software development technology for high-end, high-performance applications, is now fully accessible to individual developers, hobbyists, students and educators,'' said David Wood David Wood may refer to:
``We want our customers to know that this new Personal Edition is not a `junior' or `lite' version of the product in any way. It is the same powerful Ada compiler and easy-to-use Windows IDE available with our flagship products, ActivAda Professional Edition and ActivAda for Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. .'' Thomson has accomplished its lower pricing by replacing hard-copy documentation with on-line documentation and by removing certain royalty-bearing features of the high-end product, such as database bindings and a third-party DOS extender Software that is combined with a DOS application to allow it to run in extended memory (beyond 1MB). To gain access to extended memory, it runs the application in Protected Mode. When the application requests DOS services, the DOS extender either handles them itself or, with functions . ``This is the same, highly optimized Ada technology that our customers have enjoyed for years,'' Wood continued, ``but our new packaging and pricing really opens a new era for Ada development on the desktop.'' ActivAda Personal Edition runs under Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, and includes bindings to the Win32 API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. , allowing generation of applications that will run under Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT. The product generates Windows DLLs, integrates with Microsoft Visual C++ libraries and tools and creates Windows GUIs with a sophisticated visual programming interface. Other bundled tools include a symbolic debugger Software that helps a programmer debug a program by stopping at certain breakpoints and displaying various programming elements. The programmer can step through source code statements one at a time while the corresponding machine instructions are being executed. , project manager, cross referencer, make utility and reformatter. Thomson Software Products is a $75 million software company with more than 500 employees and more than 20,000 product installations worldwide. Company headquarters are located in Norwalk, Conn., with European headquarters in Paris. Sales offices, distributors and licensed agents are located throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . The company offers a wide range of high-productivity software products, including NOMAD, a family of 4GL products and capabilities for cross-platform, client/server environments; a variety of native and cross-development Ada environments; and the TeleUSE User Interface Management System product lines. CONTACT: Thomson Software Products Andrea Williams, 619/457-2700 or Nadel Phelan Paula Phelan, 408/335-7745 |
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