User Quotes
Here's what our users are saying about REAL Studio (formerly REALbasic) and REAL Server:
"REAL Studio lets me bring my ideas to life quickly, cross-platform, and with professional looking results."
- Brad Hutchings
"I have never had any formal training in programming. REALbasic has enabeled me to quick develop REAL Windows based programs in a very short time. The online forum is super supportive and the documentation is great. In short, it's the best development tool I have ever used."
- Dudley Henderson
"I just switched to Mac and was looking for a replacement for Delphi. After trying REALbasic I found that it will serve my needs very nicely."
- Harry Shuman, Optonline
"This is probably the most solid development tool I have ever used. The compilation and 'build' processes never fail. I and my administrative staff depend on it for almost our entire hotel and restaurant management, including accounting, financial analysis, employee pay, room checkout billing, printed receipts, travel agency accounts (and even employee tips!) And, all in Spanish!"
- Jim Redd
"We have been waiting for a software company that offers, as you call it, a crystal clear licensing system enabling small developers like me to commercialize our efforts to help small businesses embrace the power of big business without damaging their pockets.""
- Nivas
"Great tool... solved my need to develop for every platform, so very happy with your product!"
- Ralf van Kouwen
"I'm hooked. I've decided to finish development in RB rather than just do the prototyping."
- Julian Mussi
"I've been using REALbasic since I was rather young - about 10/11 years old, when I made some simple applications. The online reference built into the program made it possible for me to self-teach myself."
- Patrick Hanlan
"Over the last few weeks I've been repeatedly impressed with what I have been able to get done [with REALbasic] and how easy it's been. I like the fact that REALbasic produces native executables, unlike vb.net and c#. I haven't come across a community spirity as good as exists on your forums. It's certainly been a major pull factor for me. I also like the fact that REAL is not a faceless giant like Microsoft. Coming from a classic VB background I am delighted with how easy I have found it to make progress learning REALbasic."
- John Bowen
"Have used VB6 for 10 years. The trial version of REALbasic has demonstrated that, over all, it is an improvement to VB6 and perhaps easier to use, once accustomed to the differences. The ability to create an executable without having to provide a multitude of VB6 runtime files is definitely a plus for me since I generally write applications for volunteer groups at no charge. I am looking forward to becoming proficient at REALbasic!"
- Harold Wade
"Great piece of software. I used to do some simple stuff in VB and C++ about 10 years ago. I wanted to create an application natively on the Mac but didn't want to relearn everything. REALbasic let me focus on my product vision, by providing a simple yet powerful and intuitive language. I was able to get a beta working in time for a demonstration and now we're ready to move forward from here."
- Julian Mussi
""I like REALbasic's interface and features a lot. It's intuitive and fun to use. The Personal version is affordable, as is it's annual maintenance fee. Thank you for a very nice product.""
- Gilles Godin
"Thanks for a great product. It gets better every year and keeps it fun to develop great cross-platform apps. I couldn't be happier."
- Richard Toeppen
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- Kelsey McClanahan
"I find REALbasic to be similar to VFP but with a better (more modern) compiler and better IDE/GUI."
- Dave Braithwaite
"I am an ex software engineer who ended up as a banker and the last apps I built were on Sun Sparcstations in the early 90s. This is a fantastic tool to build occasional quick apps for selfish use and I might even convert some of my old code! Having once been fluent in 12 different programming languages it's great to have something quick and easy I can experiment with on plane flights, in airports or on quiet weekends! Great product."
- Timothy Stone
"Having been an IBM mainframe programmer for 34 years using primarily PL/I and Rexx I can keep my mind in the programming environment with REALbasic."
- Harrie Wastphal
"I love REALbasic! How fast I can make software while eliminating all of the basic UI code."
- Nathan Warden
"If it wasn't for REALbasic, I wouldn't bother coding. It makes coding worthwhile."
- Stephen Dodd
"Love the tool. I've been away from programming for about ten years. I used to teach C-programming at the college level - things have definitely changed! Anyway, it's great to be empowered again and to be able to drive my computer!"
- Christopher Norris
"Great application for teaching senior high school students programming concepts."
- Matrin Fitzgibbons
"I've been testing your software and coming from many years of Windows VB Studio development and some C I moved my company to Macs a year ago and was looking for a good development suite to work in. After testing many we came across yours and... wow! You guys will definitely give VB a run for their money. Good work guys."
- Thomas Allen
"REALbasic appears to be a great program to help get applications created quickly along with a great deal of training aids to help get my up to speed quickly as well."
- John Le Grande, Jr.
"I have grown to prefer REALbasic over VisualBasic. I am pleased with the portability you have built in to your product. I recently needed to write a program to server alarms over a linux webserver to allow the whole plant to view all alarms through the intranet. To run the application, it had to work in linux. It worked without any problems and the application has been running continuously for 6 months now. No application hang ups, crashes or lockups... And, I am using Linux to connect to a com server to get the alarms... I love the way it made the ports available. The sweetest part is that i can run this application on Linux, Windows or Mac... Write once! No installer, just one exe, app or linux app... Love it! Proudly call me a REALbasic fanboy! I would even wear a ball cap, if I had one!"
- Mike Wong
"We would simply not be where we are today if it was not for REALbasic! Thank you."
- Erik Fohlin
"I am retired and I did some programming in the original MS DOS BASIC over twenty years ago. This looks like a good tool to use to provide some brain activity and avoid oldtimer's disease and to impress the grandkids while they're still young enough to be impressed by Grampa."
- William Bailey
"In a short time I was able to use REALbasic on the trial period. I was extremely impressed with the layout of the program, the automated features when entering code, and the many examples given in the Language Reference."
- Christopher Mathieu
"I enjoy programming with REALbasic. I think you have a good product and I do hope it evolves over time."
- Paul Burnside
"A good way to get GUI applications up and running quickly. The forums are a great place to ask questions and look to see if anyone else has similar issues."
- James Lay
"I really like REALbasic. I was thinking about using Cocoa to write it. While it's more flexible as far as code is concerned, I really like how fast I can write my app with REALbasic. I really think it has the speed of prototyping mixed with the power of a full on compiler at the same time. I had the main part of my app written in about a week, whereas it would have taken about a month in Cocoa."
- Nathan Warden
"I used to teach C programming before object oriented took over the world. I need to model some hardware logic and wanted some programming language I could come up to speed on quickly. REALbasic is working great for that."
- Christopher Norris
"I'm new to the Mac and it's great to find programming software that will compile to Windows, Mac and Linux. I presently sell a program that's written in Visual Basic 6.0, so porting at least part of that program is also a plus."
- Walter Roberts
"Better than Visual Basic for my needs."
- Warren Lew
"I am still new to REALbasic, but I like the ease of use that I have experienced so far."
- Gary Stout
"Love your software and your company! Keep up the great work!"
- Michael Vollmer
"Good product, works well as VB6 replacement."
- George Bright
"Nice job witih the tutorial - it's what sold me and got me to buy a new version."
- Dave Colburn
"I love the IDE, the language, and the online community of REALbasic developers. Irrationally enough, the fact that REALbasic's in Texas also gave me a favorable opinion."
- Charles S
"I am replacing the use of Visual Basic with REALbasic. Have been using Visual Basic for 20 years."
- Jack Damm
"Love you guys - what a product!!! You're hard work now feeds my family!"
- Jeff Ayling
"I like the clean design of the language, the uncomplicated object oriented language design. The IDE is clear and uncluttered, and the documentation is clear and complete."
- Timoth Guimond
"Keep up the good work! I think this is my ninth year with Rb. It's a great product."
- Thomas Cunningham
"I'm really happy with the addition of the new profiler. We've got one in-house database application that is sloooow, and this is helping me sort out the problems."
- Gareth Conner
"I haven't been this excited about learning a new development environment since I picked up Progress (an RDBMS) in the 80s."
- Terri Gilbert
" I was very happy with VB6, and reluctantly started using VB.net, until I found REALBasic. Apart from my excitement at staying with something like VB6, the ability to code in the MAC world is something I didn't expect I would get. Thank you so much."
- Robert Lees
Here's what our users are saying about our support plans:
"Our priorities are often different from the rest of the community. The most valuable part of the support program is being able to get our priority issues addressed immediately. As a Premier member, being in regular contact with Geoff Perlman insures that we have the best possible partnership between our two companies."
- Chris Little
"The Premier support program has been invaluable this past year. Being in close contact with the staff allows us to quickly debug issues, as well as remain confident that REALbasic is taking a direction we feel is suited to our development needs. The staff is always quick to respond, polite and very helpful."
- Josh Hague
"We rely on REALbasic as our development environment end-to-end: for creating our in-house workflow tools, the user-interface software that runs on the [m]Powers themselves, and the communications software that allows the [m]Powers to communicate with each other and with Dakiim. Bottom line: The development environment is a mission critical component for Dakim. So we chose based on quality of support as much as on the features of the environment itself. The REAL Software Priority Support Program gives us the access to developers we require to get help when we need it. REAL Software has been remarkably quick to respond with critical bug fixes and enhancements when we had to have them to hold our release schedule."
- Jerry Robinson
"A great benefit of the Priority Support Program is the direct contact with the REAL Software engineers. By being a member of this program, we know that bugs that have a big impact on our business will be resolved in a short amount of time."
- Stephan Roth
