Runtime and U3 Announce Technology Partnership CREATE AND DEPLOY FAST AND SECURE APPLICATIONS FOR SMART FLASH DRIVES
June 16, 2006. Monterey, California. Runtime Revolution, Ltd, the makers of the cross-platform development tool Revolution, and U3, the company that transforms USB flash drives into the next smart medium for portal applications, announce a new, cooperative relationship. "Building for U3 presents a new venue for not only building new classes of applications for mobile workers, but also an exciting opportunity for existing Revolution developers to easily recompile their applications for an entirely new and highly secure platform," said Kevin Miller, CEO of Runtime Revolution, Ltd. All current Revolution products will gain the ability to not only run off of U3 smart drives, but also generate applications that automatically comply with U3's security model, communicate with the U3 Launchpad and handle contingencies such as safe application shut downs when a drive is suddenly removed. Just save your existing project and select the U3 options. Support for building U3-aware applications will be included in release 2.7.3 of Revolution Media or higher. U3-aware applications are currently only available for the Windows platform. "The Runtime technology model lends itself to portable application development since it requires no external components to be installed on a PC and Runtime executables are incredibly small compared to applications built with other cross-platform tools," said Kate Purmal, CEO of U3. U3 smart drives carry and run a person's "digital universe": not only files but software programs, preferences, PC settings and the means for managing it all, on any PC. U3 created the smart drive computing platform to allow secure, portable computing for a mobile workforce. Together U3 and its partners have pioneered a new kind of personal computing experience in which consumers can use a variety of PCs and access their familiar computing environment wherever they go on a tiny U3 smart drive no bigger than a pack of gum. The U3 smart drive houses all of the information which temporarily runs on the PC. Nothing is installed on the PC and when the smart drive is removed the computer retains its original settings. U3 smart drives are available from Geek SquadR, KingstonRTechnology Company, Memorex, SanDiskR and VerbatimR, Clever-Stuff disgo classic and Clever-Stuff busbi, Data Storage Advisors disk2goR, Intuix, Kingston, Memorex, SanDisk, Verbatim, PQI, Twin MOS, Ativa and I-O DATA. About Runtime Revolution Founded in 1997, Runtime Revolution focuses on bringing user-centric software development to all major platforms: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Unix. The company is based in Edinburgh, Scotland. For more information on Runtime Revolution, please visit the company on the web at http://www.runrev.com or http://www.tenthumbstypingtutor.com. About U3 U3 LLC of Redwood City, Calif., has developed an innovative platform to make U3 smart drives that host a "personal workspace" - not only data and files, but U3 smart software programs, personal user preferences and the means for managing them. U3 smart drives transform a PC into a truly personalized computer, quickly, easily and securely, and exit transparently when done. U3, backed by USB flash drive market leaders M-Systems (NASDAQ: FLSH) and SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ: SNDK). For more information see www.U3.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
