Magic Software, represented locally by Exsol, a company within JSE-listed EC-Hold, has announced that it is in the final stages of bringing its Enterprise Edition v.8 development environment to the Linux platform.
Magic, whose core application development technology ranks as one of the most popular and productive tools on the market for building and Web-enabling business solutions, expects the new product to be available in the next few weeks.
Magic`s Enterprise Edition v.8, which last year received DBMS Magazine`s Readers` Choice Award as the top application development tool on the market, is the only enterprise application development technology that offers a uniform and integrated development environment for both client/server and Web computing.
The economic implications of this are substantial and contribute greatly to Magic`s popularity among IT professionals and software houses. "Another reason for Magic`s popularity is the ease and speed at which Magic supports development of strategic, enterprise-level, e-commerce solutions," says Amir Lubashevsky, technical director of Exsol.
Magic`s enterprise development kit includes Java support through its Magic Web Online feature, which provides the online computing capabilities needed to build e-commerce applications.
Other features of Magic Enterprise Edition v.8 include visual partitioning of applications, dynamic generation of HTML, the capability to develop complex processes in parallel for enhanced performance, and secured Internet transaction processing.
"Magic will provide one of the first and most productive development environments for creating Linux-based e-commerce and other enterprise-level applications," says Alon Goren, Magic SA professional services manager. "This should help developers deliver to the market the kinds of solutions necessary for Linux to achieve wide-scale commercial acceptance."
In September, Magic introduced its Magic for Linux Enterprise Server v.8.3, which enabled existing Magic applications developed on non-Linux platforms to be ported to the Linux operating system. This new offering will enable developers to build applications directly on the Linux platform.
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