[MD1] ActiveDeveloper

NEWS

For Immediate Release:

For further information, please contact:
InterACTIVE-Technology
info@interactive-technology.com
http://www.interactive-technology.com/

ActiveDeveloper (Last Beta) — now MULTI-USER and LICENSABLE

November 26th 1998 — Vestbjerg, Denmark — Today, InterACTIVE-Technology
delivers the Last Beta of ActiveDeveloper – our CrossPlatform
Smalltalk-like Development Environment for NATIVE MacOS X, Windows and
OpenStep Code – and our take on Thinking Different about the Best way to
Develop Object-Oriented Code from OpenStep into Mac OS X.

From Beta3 to Beta5 of ActiveDeveloper, the following Improvements have
appeared:
– Network and Multi-User Capability
– Network Licensing System integrated

– Code-Compile-Play Cycle (1-2 seconds even on the slowest P-II)
– No Extra Installation needs for Demo Machines and Inhouse Test Users.

ActiveDeveloper Beta5 is available Today. Fully functional – FREE of Charge
– with a Single User Floating Network License, valid until Expiration on
Dec. 31th. 1998.
Downloadable from: (http://www.interactive-technology.com)
for: MacOS X Server DR2, Windows and OpenStep.

If You don’t want Our Betatest Single User license to set Your Limits. It’s
Now possible to Purchase ActiveDeveloper version 2.xx Network Licenses at a
Special Discount Price – while we Trim our Direct Sales Channel at
(http://www.interactive-technology.com)
*** Special Direct Offer — Available until Christmas 1998 ***
*** ActiveDeveloper v2.xx Network Licenses for ONLY $169 ***

Current Support of ActiveDeveloper in Beta5 totals:

1) MacOS X Server DR2 support for (PowerPC, Intel)
2) Windows NT support for YellowBox DR2 and OpenStep 4.2
3) OpenStep 4.2 support for (NeXT, Intel, Sparc)

4) DefaultAppKit.app Fast AppKit and Foundation NATIVE API
Experiments without the overhead of a ProjectBuilder project

5) IB.palette InterACTIVE Development right inside of
InterfaceBuilder
of GUI, as well as Control and BusinessLogic Code

Advantages for WannaGetAhead Developers:

In it’s Entry-level incarnation, ActiveDeveloper makes MacOS X, Windows or
OpenStep NATIVE Development feel as if it were interpreted. And on top of
that, it offers you:
– On-line Evaluation, Display, Inspection … everywhere …
– On-line Object Graph Browser …
– On-line Class and Category Editors … enabling code
reloading …
– On-line Smalltalk-like Workspaces …

After you have Activated your ProjectBuilder projects, ActiveDeveloper will
give them Edit-Compile-Play cycles down to 1-2 seconds … even on the
slowest Pentium-II.

Advantages for Cautious Developers:

ActiveDeveloper is carefully designed, so that it does NOT impose ANY
dependencies onto your Projects. Neither into your Source Code, nor inside
your End Products; Except – it’s very likely to rapidly make you
Workspace-addicted, as it happened to most Smalltalk newcomers. Once they
grasped what that Workspace has to offer – ” they immediately started
wondering how they ever gotten around without it … ”

But, should you really really ever want to back out again. The decision is
yours entirely. All code developed with ActiveDeveloper is NATIVE MacOS X
or OpenStep Code, and as such compiles straight with ProjectBuilder. There
is NO ActiveDeveloper luck-in. So, why bother resorting to some Scripting
language, when you can now get truly InterACTIVE with NATIVE MacOS X,
YellowBox Windows or OpenStep Power.
– cause Native means … one language and all code under ProjectBuilder
– cause Native means … no extra runtime in deployment
– cause Native means … no extra runtime penalty on performance
– cause Native means … not only for GUIs or particular kinds of projects.

For further information, please contact:

InterACTIVE-Technology
info@interactive-technology.com
http://www.interactive-technology.com/

InterACTIVE-Technology was founded in 1992, and has been working with
NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP and Smalltalk as consultants or in-house within the
European MultiMedia and Finance industries. Always striving to create a
better place out of the tools at hand.