Article: REAL Software Gives a Home to 'Stranded' Visual Basic Users, Offers Free Licenses for REALbasic for Windows.

AUSTIN, Texas, March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Given Microsoft's widely publicized plans to end support for Visual Basic 6 at the end of this month (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/support/vb6.aspx), REAL Software announced today it is giving Visual Basic users a new home -- REALbasic. From now through March 31, 2005, Visual Basic users can get REALbasic 5.5 for Windows Standard Edition, completely free of charge.

"Visual Basic users are feeling abandoned right now," stated Geoff Perlman, president and CEO of REAL Software. "They've invested a lot of time and energy into learning Visual Basic. We want them to know that they can leverage those hard-earned skills long ...

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