Mainsoft Upgrades Visual MainWin (C++) to Support Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005
Visual C++ A Strategic Platform to Support Windows, Linux, and UNIX Deployments, Says Leading Software Vendors
San Jose, Calif. - January 31, 2007 Mainsoft® Corporation, the leading cross-platform company, today announced the general availability of a plug-in to the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 IDE for its C++ application porting platform, Visual MainWin® for UNIX® and Linux, Version 5.1.1. Independent software vendors (ISVs) can now port Visual Studio .NET 2005 C++ applications to Solaris 8, 9, and 10 on SPARC®; Solaris 10 on AMD64; Solaris 10 on x86; AIX 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3 on POWER; HP-UX 11.0 and 11i on PA-RISC; HP-UX 11i on Integrity (Itanium); Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 on x86; and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and 10 on x86.
"To meet customers' diverse set of platform requirements, ISVs need to offer their solutions on Windows as well as the newest UNIX and Linux operating systems," said Philippe Cohen, VP Products, Mainsoft. "With our newly available plug-in to Visual Studio 2005, Mainsoft enables ISVs to use Microsoft's most popular development environments to develop new functionalities and enhancements for their Visual C++ applications and deploy their applications on Windows, Linux, and UNIX. Visual MainWin version 5.1.1 also offers a single code base to support both 32-bit and 64-bit requirements, the newest operating systems and compiler versions, cumulative fixes, and various enhancements to meet customers' demands."
Porting C++ Applications to Linux
Many of the world's largest software vendors, including Mentor Graphics, ESRI, and Oracle use Mainsoft's Visual MainWin to support deployments on multiple platforms. Customers accelerate time-to-market and decrease their TCO significantly using a single source code base to support open systems, including Linux.
"Mainsoft has been instrumental in enabling ESRI to support our customers' UNIX and Linux platform requirements," said Rich Turner of ESRI. "Without the help of Visual MainWin, we would have had to significantly increase our engineering staff and maintain multiple code bases of our geographic information system server software products. Using the Mainsoft technology minimized our development costs and reduced the overall time to market for our server products on Linux and UNIX platforms, which is very important to our customers."
"A growing number of our large enterprise customers want our applications to run on Linux," said Geoff Babb, Manager Engineering Infrastructure, Mentor Graphics. "Visual MainWin gives us the strategic opportunity to take our portfolio of high-performance graphics solutions, comprised of five to seven million lines of C++ code, to the latest Linux and UNIX operating systems, without having to rewrite our applications or maintain separate code bases for Windows and Linux deployments."
About Mainsoft Corporation
Founded in 1993, Mainsoft Corporation, the leading cross-platform company, enables businesses to develop mission-critical applications with Visual Studio software and deploy them natively on multiple platforms, dramatically reducing development costs and time-to-market. The company is a first-mover in cross-platform development. Its world-class research and development team has created patented cross-platform products that solve critical problems facing independent software vendors (ISVs) and IT organizations. Many of the world's largest ISVs use Mainsoft's products to extend the productivity of the Visual Studio integrated development environment, deploying more than $1 billion worth of software annually on multiple operating systems. For more information, visit
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