George wins Product of the Year Award for Best Documentation Tool
PALO ALTO, February 22, 1996-- QualSoft Corporation and K2 Software Developments announced the availability of George Version 3.0. George, winner of the 1995 X Industry Achievement Product of the Year Award for Best Documentation Tool, will now support Windows NT, Windows 95 and Windows 3.1, in addition to SunOS, Solaris and HP-UX. A new user interface featuring the popular "Wizard" approach lets users become productive within minutes instead of hours.
"Source code documentation has always been the step-child of the development process," said Laurent Gharda, president of QualSoft, North American distributor for George. "Companies rarely think twice about spending for software developer productivity tools such as run-time error detectors and other tools, yet little investment is made in software documentation, where considerable developer time is spent on the task after code completion. Now, with George 3.0, the return on investment is quickly achieved, with tool payback coming in weeks while product quality is enhanced," Gharda continued.
"Not only will George automatically produce documents which meet your internal, FDA, ISO-9001, Milspec, CMM or other specification for source code documentation, George is also used throughout the development process," said Peter Parsonage, Managing Director of K2 Software Developments, "assisting newcomers to a project to come up to speed quickly, facilitating code understanding, reviews and reuse. Until now, little could be done but to divert developers from the development process to document the results of their efforts after the fact. More realistically, most production code today ships with no up-to-date internals documentation whatsoever, creating possible software maintenance or legal liabilities. With George, the automated C/C++ source code information engine, developers can free up countless hours currently spent on code documentation. George will ensure that the documentation of the project never lags, and that all developers can easily pick up where others left off," Parsonage concluded.
Pricing and Availability
Personal licenses for George costs $695 for Windows 95/3.1, $1,195 for Windows NT or $2,995 for UNIX. 5-Packs and unlimited-user server licenses are also available. George produces documents which integrate into your current development process, supporting HTML, FrameMaker, Interleaf and RTF (including Windows Help) publishing formats.
For more information in North America, contact QualSoft Corporation or download an evaluation copy from QualSoft's website, www.qsoft.com. For information outside of North America, contact K2 Software Developments.
About K2 Software Developments
Since inception in 1987, K2 has established an international reputation for providing innovative and creative software solutions to everyday engineering problems. In recent years, K2 has targeted their development on providing effective solutions for today's demanding technical documentation requirements, making the appropriate code information available, thereby improving the process of software engineering. Headquartered in Manchester, UK, K2 can be contacted at +44 1 61 777 8118 or george@k2.co.uk.
About QualSoft
QualSoft Corporation provides a range of software development and migration tools for UNIX and Windows. QualSoft offers world class software products and services including training, integration, customization and consulting for organizations developing client/server applications in UNIX and Windows environments. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., QualSoft can be reached at (415) 494-6100, (800) 814-6351, info@qsoft.com or on the world wide web at www.qsoft.com.
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