Revolution Turns Two

Revolution Turns Two: Revolution 2.0 Beta announced

Revolution celebrates its second birthday with a major new release and a special promotion

Edinburgh, Scotland - 6th April 2003

Runtime Revolution today announces the release of Revolution 2.0 beta, its leading multi-platform development tool. This major new release builds on Revolution's existing strengths, which include an easy-to-use interface builder, an English-like programming language, database access, multimedia, Internet support, and more. All these features combine to make Revolution the quickest and easiest way to develop multi-platform software.

Whats New

This new release of Revolution adds an ambitious list of new features, making Revolution an even better choice for software developers in business, education, or for personal use.

New features include:

  • XML library with full support for creating and parsing documents
  • SOAP support
  • Unicode text entry and manipulation
  • New user interface with enhanced Mac OS X Mac OS X look and feel
  • Code Cookbook explaining a range of useful routines
  • Powerful and easy-to-use report generator
  • Improved database access on all platforms with PostgreSQL support, MySQL SSL connections, point-and-click setup, and more
  • Video capture, text-to-speech, and more multimedia enhancements
  • Spreadsheet/table text fields
  • Fully-featured, integrated debugger
  • Windows of any size and shape on all platforms
  • Perl-compatible regular expressions
  • New drag-and-drop architecture
  • 30-day trial

Special Offer

During the beta release stage, buyers can take advantage of a range of special offers. These include free printed documentation (value $99**) with the Small Business Edition or renewal of an existing Professional Edition license. New purchasers of a Professional Edition license are entitled to renew in the second year for only $99 (value $299).

(These offers are time-limited and may be withdrawn or changed without notice. See the Runtime Revolution website a <http://www.runrev.com> for more information.)

**A shipping charge applies.

About Revolution

Launched in 2001, Revolution is a leading multi-platform development tool that substantially reduces the time to develop and deploy software solutions across every major platform. Revolution's superior ease of use and advanced feature set have made it an indispensable tool for a broad range of users, and it is currently used by corporations, government agencies, software developers, educators, and individuals. Revolution includes support for XML, multimedia, leading database architectures (Valentina, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and ODBC), Internet protocols, native OS functions, and more. A demonstration version is available on the Runtime Revolution website.

Revolution is available in a range of competitive pricing options, starting at $99 (Student/Teacher Edition), through $299 (Small Business Edition) to the flagship $995 (Professional Edition). Volume and educational discounts are available, with savings of up to 95% for schools. Support and training packages are also available.

Magazines are welcome to include demonstration versions of Revolution on cover-mount CD-ROMs - please contact Rod McCall email: rodmc@runrev.com.

For more information about the company and its products, visit the Runtime Revolution website at <http://www.runrev.com> or email info@runrev.com.