Thomson Software Products announces new release and pricing structure for Windows Ada development line.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 1995--Thomson Software Products has announced a new release and pricing structure for its award-winning ActivAda development environments for Windows, Windows 95 and 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. . ActivAda is now available in three configurations: ActivAda Personal Edition, $99; ActivAda Professional Edition, $595; ActivAda NT, $995. "In addition to fully compatible with Windows 95, these new releases bring all the features necessary for true Windows-family development at a price point never before seen in sophisticated Ada technology," said David Wood David Wood may refer to:
"The ActivAda line has powerful new features for Windows developers, such as enhanced visual programming, generation of 32-bit DLLs, bindings to the Open Database Connectivity See ODBC. (standard, database) Open DataBase Connectivity - (ODBC) A standard for accessing different database systems. There are interfaces for Visual Basic, Visual C++, SQL and the ODBC driver pack contains drivers for the Access, Paradox, dBase, Text, Excel and Btrieve standard, bindings to Winsocks for TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. development and a set of high-caliber Windows drawing and plotting APIs." All ActivAda products have an easy-to-use graphical IDE and are capable of creating programs for Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT, thanks to bindings for the Win32 and Win32s APIs. The Personal and Professional editions run under Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, and the Professional Edition also supports 32-bit Extended DOS programs. ActivAda NT runs under Windows NT version 3.5 (or higher) and fully supports mapping to NT threads. "For the first time, developers can enjoy the elegance, reliability and standardization of the Ada language, without paying a premium price," said Wood. The ActivAda line also integrates with Microsoft Visual C++ libraries and tools, generates Windows DLLs and allows the creation of Windows GUIs with a sophisticated visual programing interface, and includes other tools such as 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. , management tools for complex and distributed projects, cross referencer, make utility and reformatter. Development of Ada95 successor products is already under way. The Professional Edition and ActivAda NT also offer a subscription service that guarantees current purchasers an upgrade to the Ada95 products when they are released. Thomson Software Products 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, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. Andrea Williams, 619/457-2700 or Nadel Phelan Paula Phelan, 408/335-7745 |
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