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Absoft Corporation, a market leader in Fortran compilers, debuggers, and software development tools for desktop and high performance computing, today announced the immediate availability of the new Absoft Pro Fortran v9.2 for Windows. Absoft Pro Fortran v9.2 is a special promotional bundle, which combines complete Fortran solutions for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows into a single package. Specially priced, Pro Fortran v9.2 for Windows includes Absoft's extremely popular Pro Fortran v9 for 32-bit Windows and Absoft's newly released high performance v10 Fortran compiler for 64-bit Windows. The combination is a single solution attractive to both Win32 and Win64 customers and is one of the best code migration solutions available. The combined value of these 2 compilers is $1398, but during this promotion which runs through September 30, 2006, the Windows compiler bundle starts at only $699 commercial, $299 academic for new, single user licenses. Upgrades begin at $199. 'We know that the majority of Windows customers are still in the 32-bit world, and we wanted to create a simple way to encourage them to explore the added benefits and capabilities of 64-bit Windows,' said Wood Lotz, CEO of Absoft. 'By combining our extremely popular Pro Fortran v9.0 for Win32, with Absoft Fortran v10 for Win64, we have a single solution for new and existing customers which protects their software investment and allows them to move forward building native applications for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows from a single code base. Further, the promotional bundle pricing represents a 50% discount off the individual component prices so the customers are effectively getting one of the compilers for free!' Absoft Pro Fortran v9.0 is the most complete and easiest-to-use, Fortran solution available for any Windows customer. It includes not only a Fortran 95 compiler, but a complete IDE designed for Fortran programmers, the Fx2 graphical Fortran and C/C++ debugger, math libraries, graphics, C/C++ compiler and much more. The new Absoft v10 compiler for 64-bit Windows is based on the new v10 compiler technology used in Absoft Fortran for x64/Linux which, according to independent benchmarks provides industry-leading performance on both AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors. It is also fully compatible with the Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003. Absoft Fortran solutions for Windows are complete solutions and nothing else is required for operation. For customers who wish to extend the functionality and capabilities of their programs, Absoft Fortran is compatible with many third party products including: IMSL, MATFOR, STAR-CD and VAST. For additional information on Absoft Pro Fortran v9.2 please visit: its Web site. To order, please contact Absoft by email at sales@absoft.com, or call 248-853-0050