EiffelStudio Feature ComparisonEiffel Software offers 2 versions of EiffelStudio: the Enterprise Edition and the Open Source Edition. The Enterprise Edition is targeted for serious, commercial application development. It contains a full, rich set of features and tools designed to maximize the productivity of the professional developer and the quality of the resulting software. Features include the world's best class and feature browser; a powerful debugger that cuts your debugging time down to less than one tenth that of other languages; a superb diagram (CASE) tool; a powerful multi-platform GUI builder that allows the developer to create applications that will run identically on several platforms (such as Windows, Unix, Linux, or VMS), and many more. EiffelStudio Enterprise Edition has a full commercial license, and even allows the user to insert his company's .NET signature in the .NET assembly, which makes it possible for his customers to know that their copy of the application is a genuine one. The Open Source Edition is targeted for non-commercial developers who wish to take advantage of the power of Eiffel, but who cannot justify spending to develop their application; students and hobbyists. The Open Source Edition has all of the features of the Enterprise Edition except that it has no commercial license (nor ability to create a .NET signature for commercial software) and displays a splash screen which will slow down your application by 3-5 seconds. Eiffel Software is pleased to provide this version to the Open Source community. The features of each edition are summarized below.
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