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inteRAD Donations Will Assist Training Developers In Rapid Programming Technologies

Announcement posted by inteRAD Technology 17 Jan 2003

Programming students in China and Vietnam to hone skills with Queensland-built software tools
inteRAD Technology, an Australian software development tool specialist, and the Queensland Department of State Development have jointly donated consignments of software to China and Vietnam to assist the training of programmers in modern rapid application development technologies.

The consignments, valued at A$56,000.00, are being distributed to a number of universities, libraries and other learning facilities.

The donations comprise some 2,500 recently superseded copies of inteRAD's flagship product, build-IT, which is a Java-based rapid application development language that improves programmer productivity and reduces software maintenance cycles. build-IT uses a unique visual technology to facilitate building much of the back-end logic required for modern applications, including web services.

build-IT was recently endorsed by Sun Microsystems under the Sun ONE Studio Partner program.

inteRAD Technology's chief executive, Ms Lorraine Cobcroft, said that the software donations were made to help aspiring programmers achieve new skills in the area of rapid application development, while underscoring her company's reputation as an innovative technology leader.

"The gifting of these copies of build-IT will help these nations to build their base programming skills and provide their technology students with ongoing, high quality education in modern application development techniques and technologies," Ms Cobcroft said.

"We had the choice to either destroy our superseded software or use it constructively to help others. Following close consultation with the Queensland Government we decided what better way to facilitate improved programming skills and to demonstrate Australia's technology leadership than by donating it for educational use in China and Vietnam."

Ms Cobcroft also said that the donation endorsed the great work being done in research and development by Queensland's technology industry.

Under the arrangement, the institutions that have received the donated software to-date include Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, Huashen Overseas Education Service Centre and the Jiangsu Provincial Education Committee.

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About inteRAD Technology

inteRAD Technology Ltd is an unlisted public company. Formed in 1998, inteRAD is a specialist supplier of software development tools and technologies to the world programming market.

inteRAD's core product is build-IT and features the world's most advanced software development visualisation technology, including 'Round Trip Engineering' technology, which is currently being patented globally. Among inteRAD's other claimed innovations is the world's only unbroken CD software copy protection and a soon to be released website creation and maintenance technology which will deliver major cost savings and convenience features to companies and individuals maintaining sites, that require frequent updating.

inteRAD Technology hosts a comprehensive informational web site for programmers and an eStore from which build-IT can be purchased, at http://build-it.interadtechnology.com

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Forte, Java and NetBeans are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. InteRAD's build-IT is a registered trademark of inteRAD Technology Ltd.