Dear Xbase++ community,

Refreshed, recreated and inspired from a positive US-DevCon, a successful
release of Xbase++ 1.9 and the extremely high temperatures which were
persistent all over Europe. Having resumed their normal schedule, the
development team is in the midst of re-grouping, focusing and setting up new
priorities.

Meanwhile, if you are still working with Xbase++ 1.82 or even an older
version of Xbase++, you really should take a minute or two to glean over the
features included in Xbase++ 1.9, ensuring you are up-to-date on the latest
possibilites with Xbase++.

So, what has been proclaimed by our customers about this release yet?

"Xbase++ 1.9 should be relabeled to 2.0, this is truely an amazing, solid
release!"

"Thank you so much for the good and productive cooperation! We really look
forward to laying hands on the final release of Xbase++ 1.9, so that we can
get started using it in our productive and operational environment."

"Also I would like to congratulate Alaska for the way that it is treating
the customers. With certainty now we will go to invest in Xbase++."

"By the way, we are impressed with 320. The list of PDRs fixed is enormous.
PDR 4970, on which we had almost given up hope, is fixed. And on top of
that, we get quick response from the Alaska beta team."

"For the rest I find the software Xbase++ fabulous, stupendous, powerful. I
don't know what to say more, it's beautiful!!! Makes me dream!!! It is
almost stable in everything and for everything."

"The improvements in beta 1.9 are considerable compared to 1.82 - the Alaska
team are performing a great job as far as I can see. In my view 1.9 RC is
already the best Xbase++ on the market. Is Alaska Software driving the
degree of perfection too far?"

"I am quite happy with it and with all the new features that are availble
with 1.90, especially ActiveX. So far I have not yet got any reports of
problems other than the ones we made ourselves. So I would reccomend anybody
to move over to this version."

With kind regards,
Alaska Software