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SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, DEMO@15! (February 15, 2005) — Today REAL Software, Inc. announced the introduction of REALbasic 2005 — the fastest, easiest way to create cross-platform software that really works. REALbasic 2005 creates self-contained executables that run natively on Windows, Macintosh and Linux, all from a single set of source code. In addition, REALbasic is a modern, object-oriented rapid application development (RAD) environment that provides developers a marked increase in productivity over other cross-platform development tools.

“REALbasic not only provides developers the freedom to develop for the platforms they care about; developers switching to REALbasic are realizing tremendous gains in productivity as well,” said Geoff Perlman, president and CEO of REAL Software. “Our customers often report they complete their development projects up to five times faster with REALbasic than with other tools.”

“We took 2-1/2 man-years to develop the last version of our 4-Sight FAX product. With REALbasic, we rewrote the project in less than six man-months,” said Tim Haratine, president of Soft Solutions, Inc.

Migrate Existing Visual Basic Applications REALbasic 2005 is highly compatible with Visual Basic and Visual Basic developers are instantly productive in REALbasic 2005. In addition, REALbasic 2005 includes a conversion utility to help migrate existing Visual Basic projects to REALbasic where they can be compiled for Windows, Macintosh and even Linux, with the click of a checkbox.

“We were astounded at how fast and easy it was to port our product from Visual Basic with REALbasic,” said Greg Mitchell, principal at CompuTest LLC, makers of testing software for law schools. “We expected the conversion to take 30 days with a limited feature set. Instead, we completed the project in just 12 days, with full functionality. REALbasic put us vastly ahead of schedule and under budget.”

REALbasic 2005 runs on and creates software for Windows 98, NT, 2000 and XP, Mac OS X and Mac Classic, and Linux. In addition, REALbasic creates self-contained executables that do not require DLLs, external frameworks or virtual machines. This greatly minimizes installation and deployment problems commonly associated with other cross-platform development tools.

“There is a strong business case for using REALbasic 2005 to reduce software development and deployment costs,” said Mike Kahn, managing director of The Clipper Group in Wellesley, Massachusetts. “REALbasic is a real alternative for enterprise developers.”

REALbasic 2005 Professional Edition is offered at a special introductory price of $399.95; list price is $499.95. REALbasic 2005 Standard Edition starts at $99.95. REALbasic 2005 will ship within 90 days. For more information, visit http://www.realsoftware.com/demo15 .

REAL Software provides REALbasic 2005, Cross-Platform That Really Works, for people who want to create and deliver cross-platform software for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. REALbasic is highly compatible with Visual Basic and includes a utility to help migrate Visual Basic applications cross-platform. REALbasic supports a community of over fifty thousand developers worldwide. REAL Software, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Austin, Texas. For more information visit http://www.realsoftware.com or call 512.328.7325.

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