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We have a vibrant user community full of all different types of developers who make many different kinds of applications. Our solutions are used by over 130,000 users all around the world.
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Fortune 500 UsersOne of the most significant things that sets REAL Studio apart from other development tools is how enthusiastic our users are about our products. Every week we hear from users that are having significant success with the applications they have made with REAL Studio and REAL Server. Here are some of the companies who have been successful with REAL Studio.
U.S. GovernmentSome of the U.S. government agencies that use REAL Studio include:
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User Quotes"REAL Studio lets me bring my ideas to life quickly, cross-platform, and with professional looking results." -- Brad Hutchings "I have never had any formal training in programming. REAL Studio has enabled me to quick develop REAL Windows based programs in a very short time. The online forum is super supportive and the documentation is great. In short, it's the best development tool I have ever used." -- Dudley Henderson "I just switched to the Mac and was looking for a replacement for Delphi. After trying REAL Studio I found that it will serve my needs very nicely." -- Harry Shuman, Optonline "This is probably the most solid development tool I have ever used. The compilation and 'build' processes never fail. I and my administrative staff depend on it for almost our entire hotel and restaurant management, including accounting, financial analysis, employee pay, room checkout billing, printed receipts, travel agency accounts (and even employee tips!) And, all in Spanish!" -- Jim Redd "We have been waiting for a software company that offers, as you call it, a crystal clear licensing system enabling small developers like me to commercialize our efforts to help small businesses embrace the power of big business without damaging their pockets." -- Nivas "Over the last few weeks I've been repeatedly impressed with what I have been able to get done with REAL Studio and how easy it's been. I like the fact that REAL Studio produces native executables, unlike vb.net and c#. I haven't come across a community spirit as good as exists on your forums. It's certainly been a major pull factor for me. I also like the fact that REAL is not a faceless giant like Microsoft. Coming from a classic VB background I am delighted with how easy I have found it to make progress learning REAL Studio." -- John Bowen "Have used VB6 for 10 years. The trial version of REAL Studio has demonstrated that, over all, it is an improvement to VB6 and perhaps easier to use, once accustomed to the differences. The ability to create an executable without having to provide a multitude of VB6 runtime files is definitely a plus for me since I generally write applications for volunteer groups at no charge. I am looking forward to becoming proficient at REAL Studio!" -- Harold Wade "Great piece of software. I used to do some simple stuff in VB and C++ about 10 years ago. I wanted to create an application natively on the Mac, but didn't want to relearn everything. REAL Studio let me focus on my product vision, by providing a simple yet powerful and intuitive language. I was able to get a beta working in time for a demonstration and now we're ready to move forward from here." -- Julian Mussi "If it wasn't for REAL Studio, I wouldn't bother coding. It makes coding worthwhile." -- Stephen Dodd "I've been testing your software and coming from many years of Windows VB Studio development and some C I moved my company to Macs a year ago and was looking for a good development suite to work in. After testing many we came across yours and... wow! You guys will definitely give VB a run for their money. Good work guys." -- Thomas Allen "Good product, works well as VB6 replacement." -- George Bright "I am replacing the use of Visual Basic with REAL Studio. Have been using Visual Basic for 20 years." -- Jack Damm "I like the clean design of the language, the uncomplicated object oriented language design. The IDE is clear and uncluttered, and the documentation is clear and complete." -- Timothy Guimond "REAL Studio is still the best x-platform tool and a good quick development tool even if not doing x-platform." -- John Bacon-Shone "I just think it's a better development platform to write code in. When using Microsoft compilers, they are just assuming that you are working with only their products. That locks the developer into a solely Microsoft world. Your product, however, opens up most other options that make a product like mine more attractive to existing and potential customers. More database choices, more communications choices, more desktop platform choices. And, I can offer all of these choices to my customers simultaneously." -- Terry Eutsler "I just retired after 30 years as a Lockheed-Martin software engineer, and REAL Studio is the most productive programming environment that I have ever used." -- Paul Dobbs "The language is simple, yet very powerful. Your release of updates is on-going and future-oriented. Last, but not least, REAL Studio is cross-platform - for me that is the icing on the cake." -- Nic Kolbe "These 3 big items combine to make REAL Studio a very good all-purpose language. 1.) The IDE provides an easy-to-use environment for writing and testing programs. The convenience of placing controls, the auto-indenting, the font coloring, the availability of the Language Reference, testing and compiling, and the general ease of use are all factors. 2.) The cross-platform compiling. 3.) The availability of a relational database, and the fact that this too runs across platforms." -- TJ Hanson "I have been a procedural programmer for decades (Fortran, C, Basic, Assembly, Machine language), but had a very hard time getting into object-oriented programming. A big part of this was GUI design. REAL Studio made this a snap. My son without previous programming experience started writing simple programs within 10 minutes of my showing him some of the basics." -- Tomasz K. Helenowski "I've used many development tools over the years to create and support custom software for my clients. REAL Studio is the most productive tool I use, and it is my first choice when developing desktop applications. It strikes a nearly perfect balance of power, flexibility, and ease of use, both in its language and its class framework. As a result I can develop complex applications faster in REAL Studio than in any other environment." -- Daniel Taylor In the News"I have built a few projects with REAL Studio, mostly shorter, more "casual" games. For these types of projects, REAL Studio is excellent; I could build a working engine for the game in under an hour, allowing me to focus on tweaking gameplay and graphics instead of worrying about the mechanism of the application itself. Graphics composition is simple, straightforward and natural - a welcome change from the seeming purposeful obtuseness of many languages." "REAL Studio has become an excellent platform for building cross-platform applications, offering a quick and easy solution for someone who needs to deploy an app to more than just the Mac users in the office." -- iDevGames "If you've ever been interested in writing your own programs, but felt that computer programming was too difficult, you can see how REAL Studio makes writing programs fast and easy. Programming doesn't have to be complicated, and REAL Studio can help turn anyone with a good idea into a real programmer in no time." "If you're discovering REAL Studio for the first time, get ready to experience a level of programming productivity that few other languages can match. Whether you're using Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X, you can create programs for yourself, for your job, or for the general public. Whether you want to program for fun, for a job, or for a career, you'll find that REAL Studio finally makes programming available for the rest of us." "To duplicate the magic of Visual Basic, REAL Software offers REAL Studio, which has been dubbed "Visual Basic for the Mac," although REAL Studio runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The idea behind REAL Studio is the same as Visual Basic. Design your user interface, write commands to make it do something, and you can create a useful program in a fraction of the time needed if you used C or C++." -- Computer Edge Online "REAL Studio from REAL Software Inc. is a useful development environment that enables you to create a wide variety of native applications and utilities quickly and easily... The REALbasic programming language may be easy to use and learn, but don't be fooled by the "basic" in its name. It is a modern, cross-platform, and object-oriented language that is highly extensible with operating system declares and plugins written in C++." -- DevX.com "I really like REAL Studio. It seems quite powerful, it's easy to use, and its learning curve (at least for a VB6 programmer) is very short. I really wish that Microsoft had created a VB7 upgrade to VB6 rather than .Net, but REAL Studio, in this programmer's estimation, is a more than sufficient "upgrade" for VB6." -- Code Guru "REAL Studio makes programming easy in two ways. First, it uses the much simpler BASIC programming language, which was specifically designed to teach novices how to write programs. Second, it lets you visually design the user interface of your program by creating a window and filling it with common components such as push buttons, pull-down menus, check boxes, radio buttons, pop-up menus, tabs, and sliders. Designing your user interface requires no programming knowledge at all. If you can drag and drop items, you can design a user interface." "Although REAL Studio is easy to learn, it’s also powerful enough to develop professional applications. Like powerful programming languages such as C++, REAL Studio offers object-oriented programming, which lets you divide a program into distinct objects that model the real world." "For anyone who has always dreamed about writing their own programs but found programming too difficult, REAL Studio may be for you. With its ability to make programming accessible; create cross-platform programs for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux; and advanced programming features such as object-oriented programming, REAL Studio makes programming available to anyone." -- MacNN "REALbasic is nothing like the Basic I used to know. If you haven't used Basic since most jobs required JCL to run, you might not recognize REALBasic as the same language. Sometime since then, for example, the dimension statement has morphed from its assigned role of defining array dimensions to become the defining force for all variables. You might say it has inherited the duties of the DECLARE statement. The language these days is thoroughly modern and object-oriented: it's all objects, properties, methods, and classes. REALBasic is a powerful language with an equally powerful IDE." -- Linux.com "REAL Studio can fill nearly any role in your development process and really excels at ease of use, while retaining the power of a full-featured development tool." -- Novell "Programming tools are horses for courses, but REAL Studio will run on a wide variety of race tracks. Its strength lies in its ability to hide complexity from the user. For the beginner that means an easy way into the arcane-seeming world of computer programming. For everyone else, from the occasional coder up to the professional, it means you can spend more time working on what your application will do and less on bringing it to life in the first place." -- The Register "REAL Studio combines Visual Basic's ease of use with the cross-platform capability to create programs for Windows and Mac OS Classic and Mac OS X." -- Computer Power User "The basic in REALbasic's name is somewhat misleading. REALbasic is a modern object-oriented garbage-collected language. It rivals respected languages such as Java in elegance and power..." -- Mac Developer Journal "A key benefit...is being able to create an application for one operating system and use the same code to port it to another operating system. Being able to write a program in one environment and cross-compile it to run on Windows or Linux or Macintosh ... is really a blessing." -- Computer World "REAL Studio is better than ever not just for programming professionals, MIS personnel and others who make their living in code, but also for hobbyists and beginners who want to get started making their own software." -- Mac Central "When you commit to REAL Studio, you become part of an enormous base of smart, dedicated, and friendly users who provide a variety of great resources, from books to message boards." -- Macworld "REAL Studio is a really nice tool to develop applications using the BASIC programming language. This product is very, very easy to use. Applications can be easily ported from or to the Mac. All you need do is compile your project on a Mac or Windows system." -- Developer.com |