Instantiations Ranked Among Top 100 Software Development Innovators
SD Times notes Instantiations for its creative development tools and environments.
Portland, Ore. June 1, 2007 -- Instantiations, Inc., a leading provider of software quality and productivity solutions announced today that SD Times magazine has ranked it among its top 100 companies influencing software development. This is the first top 100 placement for Instantiations and the fifth year SD Times, the trade magazine of record for the software development industry, has made the awards.
The magazine bases its annual top 100 awards on a company's overall impact on software development. It selected Instantiations for its contributions in the development tools and environments category. The company bases its Java programming tools on the popular Eclipse open source technology platform.
Editors at the magazine commented on Instantiations innovation and ability to make complex software simple to use saying: "Whether you're building or testing Java GUIs, Instantiations makes the process easy enough that even a manager could do it."
"This recognition by SD Times confirms Instantiation's commitment to developing world-class development tools for the Eclipse environment," said Mike Taylor, Instantiations CEO and Eclipse Foundation board member. "But the credit for our success goes to the skill and creativity of our development teams around the globe."
Involved in the Eclipse software development community since 1999, Instantiations has succeeded by providing high-value, high ROI software development tools for professional software developers in organizations creating their own software systems. A pioneer in building a profitable business on the open source software model, it's among Oregon's fastest growing private companies.
"The winners of this year's SD Times 100 awards have demonstrated their leadership in shaping the software development industry," said David Rubinstein, editor-in-chief of SD Times. "We took into account each nominee's products and services, its reputation among development managers, and the new ideas it brought out. These select individuals and organizations are the ones we've identified as helping to move the art of development forward."
Instantiations has four primary products: WindowBuilder Pro(TM), WindowTester Pro(TM), RCP Developer(TM) and CodePro AnalytiX(TM). Its market-leading product for creating graphical user-interfaces (GUIs), WindowBuilder Pro is used by tens of thousands of Eclipse developers worldwide. WindowTester Pro automates testing of Java GUIs with tools for recording, test generation, code coverage and playback of GUI interactions. RCP Developer is the first development tool to leverage the open source Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) for creating Java-based client and standalone desktop applications. A powerful automated software quality tool, CodePro AnalytiX helps developers measure and improve the quality of software as they create it.
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About Instantiations
Instantiations, Inc. provides leading-edge software products, services and technologies for Eclipse, Java and Smalltalk. The company offers high-value, high-ROI professional development environments and engineering consulting services that focus on improving software quality and developer productivity. Instantiations is a member of the Eclipse Foundation and offers a line of products for Eclipse, IBM Rational and WebSphere Studio, and MyEclipse. Based in Portland, Ore., Instantiations was founded in 1997 by a team of internationally recognized pioneers in component software technology. For more information, visit www.instantiations.com.
