FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 29, 2003

Media contact:
Iqbal M. Khan 

Director Sales and Marketing

AlachiSoft
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iqbal@alachisoft.com

TierDeveloper 3.0 Released for Microsoft .NET 2003

Version 3.0 adds full integration support for VS.NET 2003

San Ramon, California – July 29^th, 2003 - AlachiSoft is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the TierDeveloper™ 3.0. TierDeveloper is an object-to-relational mapping and code generation tool that helps developers cut down their middle-tier development time and cost. Map middle-tier objects to relational tables, embed powerful SQL including queries and stored procedure calls, and instantly generate fully-functional .NET components (VB.NET and C#) from within Visual Studio .NET 2003. Also generate an ASP.NET web application to test these objects.

The latest features to be added to version 3.0 include full integration support for Microsoft VS.Net 2003. Developers can now create and open TierDeveloper projects within VS.NET, and Map data objects to tables along with custom attribute selection. Specify hooks, web services, multiple database connections, and parent/child relationships. For Java and J2EE developers, TierDeveloper is now tightly integrated with BEA WebLogic 7.1/8.1 and JBoss 3.2.x, and added database support for MySQL will give Developers working in different environments more flexibility. New Oracle optimization includes the ability to Generate Oracle Native Data Provider based data object codes.

" TierDeveloper is now fully integrated with the Visual Studio .NET 2003 IDE so that developers can accelerate N-Tier enterprise application development powered by TierDeveloper. By providing this seamless integration, TierDeveloper promises to address the needs of a growing community of developers and thus leverage distributed applications development efforts from within Visual Studio .NET 2003. Additionally TierDeveloper now supports database access through Optimized Managed Providers as supported in the .NET Framework." said Iqbal Khan, Director Sales & Marketing at AlachiSoft.

Technologies supported by TierDeveloper include:

· Microsoft .NET Framework-based components
· Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Visual Basic .NET
· Microsoft ADO.NET (database access through OLEDB and Managed Providers for SQL Server 2000, Oracle and DB2)
· Microsoft ASP.NET Web applications
· XML/XSLT
· Web services

Additionally, TierDeveloper supports the following leading database servers:

· Oracle
· DB2
· Microsoft SQL Server
· MySQL

TierDeveloper allows customers to significantly lower their development cost and maximize productivity within their current projects. Customers can develop software applications in much less time, without requiring as many resources which is essential in these difficult economic times when everyone is cutting back their budgets and is being forced to postpone and/or cancel important projects. Now, customers can develop their business-critical projects without having to increase their budgets.

TierDeveloper also helps customers improve the quality of their applications. This is because all the code that TierDeveloper generates is based on pre-tested code-templates. These code-templates have been tested for both functionality and performance. The end result of all this is a much higher quality application for our customers.

Pricing and Availability

TierDeveloper has a 30-day evaluation version available on AlachiSoft website. Pricing information is also available there. NO RUNTIME FEES, NO SERVER-CPU FEES, and NO DEPLOYMENT FEES charged by TierDeveloper. Customers only pay for developer licenses.


About AlachiSoft

AlachiSoft, a California based company, is in the business of providing Software Development Productivity Tools. And, the first tool in this line is TierDeveloper, which helps developers of Enterprise Applications cut down their development time through object-to-relational mapping and code generating capabilities of TierDeveloper. TierDeveloper has been designed to become a Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment for customers who want to design and develop Enterprise systems in Java, J2EE, or Microsoft Technologies. Visit our website at http://www.alachisoft.com or send us an email at sales@alachisoft.com.


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