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Palo Alto, CA — Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the release of the Forte Developer 6 suite of products, an integrated set of development and productivity tools designed for enterprise developers. Formerly known as Sun WorkShop tools, Forte Developer 6 products include the high-performance Forte C, C++ and Forte Fortran tools. Key enhancements in the Forte Developer 6 suite bring increased performance, scalability, programmer productivity and usability with Forte C, C++ and Forte Fortran 6.
Created for the Solaris Operating Environment, Forte Developer 6 products provide companies with the tools to build and deploy high- performance, mission-critical applications from the desktop to the data center. Forte Developer 6 products provide full support for 64-bit applications, ANSI/ISO C++ support, support for OpenMP and improved performance. The Forte Developer 6 product suite is available immediately for download at http://www.sun.com/forte .
“With more than 100,000 copies of the Sun WorkShop products currently in use, Sun continues to deliver on its promise to provide high-performance enterprise application development tools,” said Mark Herring, Director of Marketing, Forte Tools, Sun Microsystems. “Meeting the needs of Solaris Operating Environment-based developers to take advantage of the latest 64-bit hardware and operating environments, the Forte Developer 6 product suite offers new levels of scalability and performance tools to go beyond their desktop to mainframe-class servers 64-bit technology and the power and portability of ANSI/ISO C++ support.”
Forte Developer 6 products include Forte C++ Enterprise Edition 6, Forte C++ Personal Edition 6, Forte for High Performance Computing 6, Forte Fortran Desktop Edition and Forte Teamware 6 tools. Forte Developer 6 products feature Forte C, C++ and Forte Fortran tools for full support of 32- and 64-bit technology for faster code writing and calculations. High performance compilers also offer significant boosts in both compilation and execution speed over previous versions.
Optimized for the Solaris Operating Environment on both SPARC and Intel architectures to provide higher performance, new compilers improve throughput and responsiveness with multi-threading technology and improved performance for all languages. The Forte Performance Analyzer tool allows programmers to identify hot spots and fine tune applications, including multi-threaded applications. In addition, improved Fortran 95 compiler performance takes full advantage of the Solaris Operating Environment and SPARC architecture with a simple recompilation.
Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com .
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