Runtime Revolution: Software development now for U3

Runtime Revolution, Ltd, the makers of the cross-platform development tool Revolution, and U3, the company that transforms USB flash drives into the next smart medium for portal applications, announce a new, cooperative relationship.

“Building for U3 presents a new venue for not only building new classes of applications for mobile workers, but also an exciting opportunity for existing Revolution developers to easily recompile their applications for an entirely new and highly secure platform.” said Kevin Miller, CEO of Runtime Revolution, Ltd.

All current Revolution products will gain the ability to run off of U3 smart drives, and Revolution Studio and Enterprises will also generate applications that easily comply with U3’s security model, communicate with the U3 launch pad and handle contingencies such as safe application shut downs when a drive is suddenly removed. Just save your existing project and select the U3 options.

Support for building U3-aware applications will be included in release 2.7.3 of Revolution. U3-aware applications are currently only available for the Windows platform.

“The Runtime technology model lends itself to portable application development since it requires no external components to be installed on a PC and Runtime executables are incredibly small compared to applications built with other cross-platform tools,” said Kate Purmal, CEO of U3.