Greetings MySQL Friends: For those of you wondering when Blue World would release Lasso Professional 5 with its embedded Lasso MySQL database, well, it was just released. Details follow for those who may be interested.
Cheers! CC ----------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 26, 2002 BLUE WORLD RELEASES LASSO PROFESSIONAL 5 Next-generation Web Data Engine available immediately in Standard and Developer Editions. Bellevue, WA--February 26, 2002--Blue World Communications, Inc.--pioneers of the Web Data Engine(tm)--today announced the immediate availability of Lasso Professional 5 in Standard Edition and Developer Edition versions. Lasso Professional 5 is a significant upgrade to Blue World's award-winning Lasso Web Data Engine product for building and serving data-driven Web sites. "Our goal with Lasso Professional 5 was to provide the highest quality product available for building and serving data-driven Web sites," said Bill Doerrfeld, CEO of Blue World. "Lasso Professional 5 provides Web developers and ISPs with a tool specifically designed to meet their most demanding needs without compromising ease-of-use, offering unprecedented productivity and flexibility. Beyond representing the easiest to use product in its class, Lasso Professional 5 provides several industry-first and exclusive features including built-in security, an embedded MySQL(tm) database server, and a comprehensive administration interface. With Lasso Professional 5, Lasso developers and ISPs have a product which delivers the best experience for building and serving data-driven Web sites." Lasso Professional 5 introduces a next-generation object-oriented Web programming language, advanced Web application server administration and security, an embedded Lasso MySQL(tm) high-performance database server, a new distributed architecture, new platform and data source support, unprecedented extensibility and customization, redesigned and rewritten documentation (over 1800 pages), and over 200 new features and enhancements. Rave Reviews from Leading Web Developers "The power, quality and feature set of Lasso Professional 5 is very impressive," said Johan Sölve, Lasso Developer for Montania in Halmstad, Sweden. "The new version offers advanced programming features while maintaining the simplicity we know from Lasso Web Data Engine 3. The new documentation is definitely among the best in the business." "Blue World has managed to add an immense amount of functionality and scalability without sacrificing any of the ease-of-use of previous versions," said Tom Wiebe, Lasso Developer for the Image Foundation in Vancouver, Canada. "The integration of MySQL within Lasso Professional 5 has been wonderfully implemented. This, along with new features like LassoApps, custom tags and LassoScript creates a development environment that seems almost limitless." "I have been able to single-handedly develop sophisticated solutions for internal and external solutions in less time than I see teams of people take with other middleware languages," said Greg Willits, Webmaster at Verteq, Inc. in Santa Ana, California. "Lasso Professional 5 preserves the rapid development advantage and ease-of-use for non-programmers of previous versions, yet adds a whole new level of advanced tools that the professional programmer will appreciate. The new features and capabilities of Lasso Professional 5 were very well thought out, and it's obvious Blue World has been listening to its user base. As I look to develop even more sophisticated and security-sensitive Web solutions in coming months, I see no reason at all where Lasso Professional 5 would not continue to represent an advantage over other options." A listing of additional testimonials from Web developers and Web designers in support of Lasso Professional 5 can be found at <http://www.blueworld.com/Lasso5/LassoPro/Testimonials.lasso>. Available Editions Lasso Professional 5 Standard Edition is the edition to be used for final deployment and administration of data-driven Web sites. Standard Edition allows an unlimited number of visitors to use sites powered by Lasso Professional 5. Developer Edition is the edition to be used for development and testing of Lasso-powered Web sites. Developer Edition is limited to use by a single developer. An Evaluation Edition of Lasso Professional 5 is also available which is based on the Developer Edition but is limited to first-time trial use for up to 30 days. Evaluation Editions are available at <http://www.blueworld.com/Lasso5/LassoPro/evalrequest.lasso>. Platform, Web Server and Database Support Lasso Professional 5 supports Mac OS X version 10.1 and Windows 2000 providing support for Apache on Mac OS X, IIS on Windows 2000 and 4D WebSTAR Server Suite V on Mac OS X. Beyond the embedded Lasso MySQL database, Lasso Professional 5 introduces direct support for external MySQL databases via Lasso Connector for MySQL and direct support for FileMaker(r) Pro databases via Lasso Connector for FileMaker Pro. Other data source connectors will be available via third parties. A preliminary listing of third party Lasso data source connectors is available at <http://www.blueworld.com/Lasso5/LassoPro/connectors.html>. See the related announcement showing commitments from various third party vendors to provide free Lasso data source connectors at <http://www.blueworld.com/blueworld/news/07.17.01-LP5.html>. Availability The electronic download versions of Lasso Professional 5 Standard and Developer Editions are available immediately for purchase direct from the Blue World Store at <http://store.blueworld.com>. Box versions are also available for immediate purchase and will ship by the end of March, 2002. Customers who purchase the box version now can use the download version until such time that the box version is available. Pricing Lasso Professional 5 Standard Edition is available for $1199 electronic download and $1299 boxed edition. Lasso Professional 5 Developer Edition is available for $699 electronic download and $799 boxed edition. Registered customers who own a license for any edition of Lasso Web Data Engine 3.x can upgrade to Lasso Professional 5 Standard Edition for $599 electronic download and $699 boxed edition. No upgrades from prior versions of Lasso products to Developer Edition are available. Subscription Plan To complement one's Lasso Professional 5 new or upgrade product purchase, customers may purchase a subscription plan which provides 12 months of free upgrades to the latest versions of like editions of Lasso Professional 5 and includes five incidents of priority technical support. Additional details are available at <http://www.blueworld.com/blueworld/support/#Subscriptions>. Additional Information Additional information about Lasso Professional 5 is available via the Lasso Professional 5 Web site at <http://www.blueworld.com/Lasso5/LassoPro/>. About Blue World Blue World Communications (www.blueworld.com) delivers cross-platform software tools allowing Web developers and designers to quickly build and serve powerful data-driven Web sites. Blue World provides Lasso Professional 5, Lasso Web Data Engine, Lasso Studio and Blue World ListSearch service in fulfillment of its mission to bring business to the Internet(tm). ### (c) Blue World Communications, Inc. 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