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As Editor-in-Chief of the .NET Developers Journal, I first heard about Dotfuscator when I was impressed to read that Microsoft had chosen its Community Edition as the obfuscation solution they would bundle with Visual Studio .NET. As Chief Technology Evangelist for Expand Beyond Corp., I subsequently purchased its commercial version and have been very impressed with the high level of obfuscation that it has provided for our PocketAdmin for Windows mobile IT administration product. "Citrix Systems provides a range of Access Solutions for end users up through and including the
"Security is a major concern for customers whether their applications live on the Web or on the desktop. Dotfuscator Professional with obfuscation support for Silverlight will help customers create rich, more secure user experiences." Dotfuscator Gold provided us with a single platform that allowed us to meet three critical requirements - to protect, monitor and monetize our commercial software. "TMW is the world's largest provider of enterprise management software solutions for the trucking industry. Microsoft SLPS and Dotfuscator Gold offer a powerful means to protect, measure and monetize our applications. We view PreEmptive Solutions' instrumentation platform for commercial software development as game-changing." PreEmptive Solutions software plus services approach looks to improve application value for developers and consumers alike. "PreEmptive Solutions has been the premier supplier of obfuscation technology to .NET developers since Dotfuscator was originally included in Visual Studio 2003. We are very pleased that they have partnered with Microsoft to integrate with our new SLP Services and provide an end to end licensing system to software publishers with Dotfuscator Gold." "We needed to protect our intellectual property and make sure no one has access to our code within these diagnostics. We chose PreEmptive Solutions for several reasons the level of security PreEmptive's solutions provide, the low-maintenance and the fact that we needed a solution that could work both in the .NET and Java platforms. PreEmptive Solutions was the best solution for us." "As soon as a software program gets released, hackers and competitors are swarming over it with the latest code analysis tools. Obfuscation can put a quick end to their ability to succeed, thus strengthening security and protecting the intellectual property." "Dotfuscator Professional contains technology that helps developers protect their intellectual property from decompilation or reverse engineering attempts on .NET Framework-based applications. Protecting applications is extremely important to developers, and Dotfuscator Professional Edition is a valuable solution to customers." "Forget what other products claim... DashO delivers! DashO is the only product that consistantly provides exceptional compression of our InstallAnywhere product, while obfuscating as well. I highly recommend DashO." "DashO is great, it has allowed us to address the issue of our product's, Ding!, download size being relatively large. Before we had a download size of 2.5M, now have a download size of slightly over 1MB." It is becoming evident to many organizations that securing infrastructure that applications use is not enough to provide the level of trust and mitigation of risk businesses seek, particularly for the valued intellectual property their computer applications assets represent to them. Innovative companies involved in application development are seeking and investing in ways to ensure code security to protect such assets. "Microsoft chose to partner with PreEmptive because the company, though small in size, had powerful security software that is the best available. With the time frame of the next version's release and a limited number of programmers dedicated to developing the software, Microsoft officials thought it best to go with a security product already available. The reality is, and many people have a hard time believing this, Microsoft has limited resources. PreEmptive has a great solution." "Microsoft is excited to include PreEmptive Solutions' Dotfuscator(tm) Community Edition in Visual Studio .NET. This tool contains technology that helps developers protect their intellectual property from decompilation or reverse engineering on the Microsoft .NET platform. For commercial and enterprise applications, the superior protection and size reduction provided by an upgrade to Preemptive's Dotfuscator professional version is well worth a look." "The ability to optimize applications for mobile devices with limited resources is paramount for developers. The .NET Compact Framework was designed to provide everything developers need to build mobile applications and nothing they don t. Microsoft is pleased to see PreEmptive provide this valuable tool to the developer community to help them protect their IP and substantially reduce their application size." "For a commercial component vendor like /n software, intellectual property protection and code security are of paramount importance. PreEmptive's tools have provided solid security for our products from day one, while performance gains through pruning and other techniques have been a nice bonus. We are excited about the new features in their latest release, especially code watermarking which adds an additional layer of protection against copying and unauthorized use. "As a commercial component vendor, we make significant investments in research and development in order to differentiate our products in a very competitive and dynamic marketplace. Choosing the right tools to protect these investments is of extreme importance and crucial to our ability to succeed. Preemptive's cutting edge products and outstanding support have been a winning combination from day one." "Before undertaking a migration to .NET, corporate enterprises must be sure that their enterprise applications are inherently secure. PreEmptive's new Dotfuscator software--which is integrated into Visual Studio .NET-- addresses that concern. Typically, the word "obfuscation" meaning confusion, carries a negative connotation. But, just the opposite is true of the Dotfuscator package. The Dotfuscator software is a positive step on the road to secure application development: it's meant to confuse and confound would be hackers, making it extremely difficult to tamper with the integrity of .NET-based applications. Developing applications with Visual Studio .NET just got safer with the integration of PreEmptive's Dotfuscator." - Brad Wetmore, a lead developer at Sun Microsystems who uses DashO-Pro for the JCE and JSSE core JDK 1.4 libraries, March 2002 "[With DashO] We've reduced our jar sizes in half and have improved the performance of many of our API calls by around 30%. In summary, we're very happy with the product, the company was very helpful in getting me going with it, and we would purchase it again in a heartbeat. You can quote me on that." "When all was said and done, DashoPro had reduced our applet size by over 40%, which substantially increased user satisfaction at PlaySite. In addition, the technical support at preEmptive was top notch; several times I received detailed answers to my questions within an hour of sending an email. Dasho has already become an integral part of our build process." "DashO is great, it has allowed us to address the issue of our product's, Ding!, download size being relatively large. Before we had a download size of 2.5M, now have a download size of slightly over 1MB." "Obfuscation is enormously useful, because it protects our intellectual property. After running my code through DashO, I found there were more than 700 methods named 'A' in the program. I challenge anybody to figure out what I'm doing after I obfuscate the source code that strongly." "DashO Establishes itself as a critical tool for serious Java Developers... Making distribution packages even smaller is one of DashO's great strengths. And, if you need to protect intellectual property, DashO provides bytecode obfuscation, which makes reverse engineering attacks unlikely to succeed." "Forget what other products claim... DashO delivers! DashO is the only product that consistently provides exceptional compression of our InstallAnywhere product, while obfuscating as well. I highly recommend DashO." "DashOPro is the best Java tool we have come by. After reviewing and using more than a dozen similar products, we found DashOPro to be the best in its field. The DashOPro product and their team of Tech Support, aided us in delivering the VisImage Java Imaging Class on time and at a surprisingly small Jar size. We look forward to new releases of the DashOPro product excitedly." "Atrieva provides immediate online access to customer backed files, either through our automated Windows client or from any Java 1.1-enabled browser. To better server our customers, we wanted to reduce the size of our CAB and JAR files for quicker download. With DashO, not only did we get the benefits of quicker access through code reduction, but we also got obfuscation to protect our intellectual property and optimizations that make everything run more efficiently. What more could we ask for?" |
