Alpha Five recognized for product excellence and innovation among
application development tools by the editors of Dr. Dobb's Journal and
the Jolt Award judges
BURLINGTON, Mass.--(Business Wire)--Alpha Software's Alpha Five Version 8 has been named a finalist in
the 18th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards, the "Oscars" of the
software development industry. The editors of Dr. Dobb's Journal
(DDJ), published by CMP Technology, selected Alpha Five as one of six
finalists in the category of Best Development Environment. The Jolts
are presented annually to "recognize the most innovative,
trend-making, ahead-of-the-curve" application development products,
according to DDJ's editors.
Winners of the 18th Annual Jolt Awards will be announced on March
5 at the Software Development Conference and Expo (SD West '08), in
Santa Clara, at a gala hosted by journalist Robert X. Cringely. Other
finalists in the category include Developer Express Inc.'s
CodeRush/Refactor! Pro, JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA, ActiveState's Komodo
IDE 4, Sun Microsystems' NetBeans IDE 6, and QNX Software Systems' QNX
Momentics IDE 4.
"Alpha Five is in good company," says Richard Rabins, Co-Chairman
of Alpha Software. "We set out to create a world-class development
platform when we designed Alpha Five Version 8, and this nomination
shows we accomplished that goal. Whether we take the Jolt Award home
or not, being named a finalist is a high honor that only a few vendors
have achieved. We thank the Jolt Award judges for recognizing Alpha
Five as one of the year's most innovative products for developers."
For the Development Environments category, the Jolt Award judges
are looking for "the ultimate development environment" for developers.
This includes innovative programming languages, source code editors,
and integrated development environments (IDEs), according to DDJ's
editors.
"No publication has more experience covering programming,
languages, platforms, and tools than Dr. Dobb's, which has chronicled
software development for some 30 years," says Selwyn Rabins,
co-chairman and head of development at Alpha Software. "This is a
great day for our developers, who work incredibly hard to keep Alpha
Five's capabilities ahead of the pack. This nomination proves we are
delivering a platform that professional developers can use with
confidence."
For more information on these awards, and to see a list of past
winners, please visit http://www.JoltAwards.com/. For more information
on Alpha Five Version 8, visit www.AlphaSoftware.com.
PRICING & AVAILABILITY
All Alpha Five Version 8 products are available now. Fully
functional trial versions can be downloaded at
http://AlphaSoftware.com/Trial/. Alpha Five Version 8 Professional
Edition retails for $249. Upgrades for registered users cost $179.
Alpha Five Version 8 Enterprise Edition is $349, or $249 for upgrades.
Alpha Five Application Server Basic is $499, or $299 for upgrades.
Alpha Five Application Server Enterprise is $699, or $499 for
upgrades. The Alpha Five Version 8 runtime starts at $499, or $399 as
an upgrade. A complete product and feature comparison is available at
http://www.AlphaSoftware.com/Products/.
ABOUT ALPHA SOFTWARE INC.
Since 1982, Alpha Software has been providing developers of all
experience levels with award-winning tools and technologies that make
it easy to rapidly build robust database and business applications.
Today over 1 million developers rely on Alpha Software's flagship
platform, Alpha Five, to build desktop, client-server, distributed,
and Web 2.0 applications for organizations of any size--from SOHO to
the Fortune 100. Every day, tens of millions of people and businesses
rely on applications built in Alpha Five. With the introduction of
Alpha Five Version 8 in 2007, Alpha Software sets new standards for
speed of development, portability, reporting, and security for
database applications of all stripes. The company is privately held,
and based in Burlington, Mass. Alpha Software can be found on the Web
at http://www.AlphaSoftware.com. The company's blog can be read at
http://Blog.AlphaSoftware.com.
Press contact:
Gregory FCA
Kate Ritchie
Assistant Account Executive
Main: 610-642-8253
KateR@GregoryFCA.com
or
Company contact:
Alpha Software Inc.
Richard Rabins
Co-Chairman
Main: 781-229-4500
Richard@AlphaSoftware.com
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