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Fri, 16 Aug 2002

REAL Software announces Cubie winners

REAL Software's Cubie awards recognize the contributions their users have made to the industry



by promoting the excellence of what they have produced with REALbasic.

They accepted nominations from anyone, but no REAL Software employee ormember of their family is eligible. The only other requirement is that theproducts be Premier partners in the Made with REALbasic program. Winnerswill receive TWO free upgrades to REALbasic, support in publishing theproduct (if desired), free publicity, the admiration and envy of theirpeers, and other prizes to be announced.

The entries will be judged on quality, fitness to the task (fun game?useful utility?), polish, verve, and brio.

Each winner in the categories (past categories have included: Advocate ofthe Year, Cross-Platform, Developer Tool, Game, Internet, Mac OS X,Utility, Overall, and Business) will receive prizes. The categories changebased on the entries received.

The Swag:
TWO free upgrades to REALbasic, Professional edition!

2002 Winners:

Advocate of the Year:
Erick Tejkowski There's a special category for the REALbasic advocate of the year, thatperson who has done the most for the community, and helped make REALbasicknown everywhere as the truly great tool that it is.

Business:
Barcode Producer by Intelli Innovations, Inc.The best tool for conducting some sort of commercial activity, whether it isa traditional business application or a tool for creating stuff that makesmoney for the user.

Cross-platform:
Quick Pallet Maker 2 by SCA MecanicaThe best example of an application that embraces Macintosh, Mac OS X, andWindows.

REALbasic development aid:
UniHelp by Electric ButterflyThis includes plug-ins, classes, modules, frameworks, pre- andpost-processors, anything that helps some REALbasic developer get the jobdone.

Education:
A-OK! The Wings of Mercury by You Are Go!Software for learning (something useful, ideally).

Enterprise:
Visual 3270 by Trizen SystemsEnterprise software. Big iron, mainframes, legacy systems -- crucial toolsfor getting big business done.

Internet:
AthenaIRC by ChiperSoft SystemsBest tool for the Internet. This could be anything useful in that ratherlarge arena, from a server tool, to a decoder, player, testing tool. If ituses IP (or its cousins) or some known protocol or format, it's in!

Mac OS X:
MediaEdit by Mien SoftwareThe best application for Mac OS X. It need not fall into any particularcategory, and can also support the classic Mac OS (and heck, Windows too).

Multimedia:
Baytex Party! by BaytexThat best application for the audio, visual, wave of the future.

Utility:
PrefsOverload 4.1.2 by Zik's Software andPassenger by MacinMind SoftwareThe best application that does something useful. This too is intentionallybroad! All it has to do is crank out the utiles, and we will be all over it.



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