REAL Software announced that the company was honored as a DEMOgod at the DEMO@15! conference last week in Scottsdale, Arizona. DEMOgods are selected for their ability to clearly articulate the significance of their debuting technologies despite the pressures of a jaded audience and a glowing red six-minute count-down clock.

REAL Software president and CEO Geoff Perlman was presented the award for REALbasic 2005, a cross-platform application development environment. For their demo, REAL Software created a web services client from scratch on Windows, then ran it on Linux and Mac OS X, all in less than three minutes. The otherwise quiet DEMO audience responded with an approving round of applause.

Geoff Perlman summarized REAL Software's value proposition at the end of the demonstration, "simply put, REALbasic is cross-platform that really works."

Keith Shaw of Network World Magazine's DEMOblog called it "an impressive demo [that] showed the audience how they can program a simple Web application in Windows and then run the application on a Linux and Macintosh environment. This really seems to fulfill the promise of 'write once, deploy everywhere' that has been promised in the past."

After the presentation, Mr. Perlman acknowledged, "a lot of people collaborated to make our demo so effective. In addition to all of the REAL Software engineers who worked hard to get the product as far as it is, I owe a big 'thanks' to Dave Wooldridge at Electric Butterfly, who provided us with his outstanding Amazon Web Services Library, an essential part of our demo. Anyone interested in web services should check out the full line of web services components offered by Electric Butterfly."

Previous DEMOgods include Intuit CEO Scott Cook, Palm inventor Jeff Hawkins and Dan Bricklin, inventor of the world's first spreadsheet. The full list of DEMOgods for 2005 is available online: http://www.demo.com/demo2/demonstrators/demogods.html

More information about the Electric Butterfly's Amazon Web Services Library can be found at: http://www.ebutterfly.com/rb/wslamazon.asp.

About REAL Software
REAL Software provides REALbasic 2005, Cross-Platform That Really Works, for people who want to create and deliver cross-platform software for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. REALbasic is highly compatible with Visual Basic and includes a utility to help migrate Visual Basic applications cross-platform. REALbasic has over fifty thousand users worldwide. REAL Software was founded in 1996 and is based in Austin, Texas. For more information visit www.realsoftware.com or call 512.328.7325.