Porting Visual Basic apps to Linux

"REAL Software Wednesday released REALbasic 5.5 Professional Edition, which enables developers to compile Visual Basic source code under Linux.

'Linux on the desktop has been a hot topic,' said REAL President/CEO Geoff Perlman. 'What's been missing are the applications. There haven't been many good tools for creating desktop software.'

Perlman said this is the first commercial rapid application development product to offer a way to migrate existing Visual Basic applications to a Linux environment. 'The biggest benefit to Linux users is that this product enables a great parity between Linux and Windows,' he said."

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