PreEmptive Announces Dotfuscator 3.0 Support for Macrovision's Installshield 12

BOSTON, Microsoft Tech Ed Booth #1003 - June 14, 2006

PreEmptive Solutions, suppliers of the leading Enterprise Obfuscation Solution for the Microsoft .NET environment and Java, announced today support for and integration with InstallShield 12 from Macrovision. InstallShield 12 has many new features including the ability to create installations that target the current beta of Microsoft Windows Vista.

"Application developers that care enough about quality installations and optimizing user experience to adopt InstallShield often want to protect the value of their applications through obfuscation as well," said Gabriel Torok, President of PreEmptive Solutions. "Our common user-base makes it imperative that we stay in lock step to ensure a seamless development and release cycle process even as we each offer continued product enhancements."

"PreEmptive Solutions offers tight integration with VisualStudio and has emerged as a standard for .NET obfuscation," said Bob Corrigan, senior manager of software product marketing at Macrovision. "We are pleased that PreEmptive recognizes the value of InstallShield 12 and continues to make the investment to remain closely aligned with our progress."

"ESRI uses the respective market leaders in the field of software installation and software code protection. For our software installation packages we make use of the latest software from InstallShield and for the purpose of protecting our .NET code investment we employ the use of Dotfuscator Professional. We find that both products work well and fulfill our requirements. We also find that both solutions integrate very well together and provide us with the ability to maintain a single integrated build procedure." - Ronan Gray, Head of Software Development, ESRI.

"Microsoft is happy to see two premier Visual Studio Industry Partners, PreEmptive Solutions and Macrovision, working together to add significant value to the Visual Studio ecosystem and providing great solutions to our collective developer customers." - Nick Abbott, Group Manager, .NET Development Group at Microsoft Corp.

Installation and obfuscation are destined to be regular steps in your future .NET build processes. And the two leading products in this space - InstallShield and Dotfuscator have full Visual Studio Integration to make these processes as easy and efficient as possible. Use InstallShield 12 and PreEmptive's Dotfuscator Professional 3.0 together inside Visual Studio.NET to get reliable installations and code protection.

About PreEmptive Solutions
Founded in 1996 with a mission to protect and increase application value, PreEmptive launched the Dotfuscator and DashO obfuscation families. With over 2,500 corporate clients, 30,000 registered installations in 100+ countries and bundling into Microsoft's 6,000,000+ Visual Studio seats, PreEmptive Solutions is the undisputed market leader and the clear choice for every organization that is serious about source code protection, application security and IT governance. To learn more, email solutions@preemptive.com or call +1 216 732 5895

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