Posts in Category: Announcements

Today we have a big announcement: nWire Software joins the Eclipse foundation. You can read the full press release here. This is our way of showing commitment and support to the Eclipse community. We have been active members of the community for a long time and we are very pleased to finally make this step.

There are benefits for our users as well. First, we will be mirroring full Eclipse downloads on our site. The downloads are served using a very fast CDN based on Limelight infrastructure. Try it yourself, it is FAST. We are hosting all the popular downloads for Helios (Eclipse 3.6) and Galileo (Eclipse 3.5). Plus, you can choose to add nWire to the prepackaged download. This will save you the trouble of installing nWire later.

But that’s not all. Helios has a new snazzy Eclipse Marketplace client. It makes finding plugins and installing them so much easier. Now that we are Eclipse members, you can find and install nWire directly from the Eclipse Market place dialog box. It is simple and works great. To get started, select Help → Eclipse Marketplace...

nWire is a very useful tool for diving into unfamiliar code. This means it is an excellent companion for students learning how to program. We received numerous requests from students and professors to provide a discount to educational institutions. Today, we are pleased to announce our Educational Discount Program.

The offer is simple: students, faculty, staff and employees of accredited non-profit educational institutions can now purchase a fully functional 1 year nWire license for $19 (Java or PHP, $29 for both). That's more than 75% off the original price.

The educational discount licenses will expire after 1 year. We decided to provide a more substantial discount for a limited time license. Most students will need these tools in their more advanced years of study, so this should not be a problem. It is important to note that the licenses are intended for learning and teaching and should not be used for commercial purposes.

If you qualify for an educational discount license, you can buy yours today. Start from our Educational Discount Store. From there, follow the instructions. You will need to fill out an order form with your details. Make sure you correctly fill the institution details. The provided email address must belong to the domain of your institution. The details will go through our manual review and once the order is cleared (usually less than a day), you will receive an email with payment instructions.

We will also be offering site licenses to educational institutions who wish to install nWire in their labs. If you represent such an institution, please contact our sales for more details.

Finally, if you have any feedback regarding the program, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are considering this program "an experiment", so your feedback is very important to us.

Up until now, the only option to buy nWire was through PayPal. We chose PayPal in the first place because it is a nearly ubiquitous payment solution which provides strong security for the buyer. The payment process did go through the PayPal screens, but it did not require a PayPal account. Well, at least in most countries. It worked well for us, except for some isolated cases. Lately, we received more requests from larger business customers to provide an alternative payment method. Most noticeably, we were missing the ability to properly handle purchase orders.

Today, we are adding another way to buy nWire: through our resellers FastSpring. This means more flexible payment options and no dependency on PayPal (although PayPal can still be used). Buying through FastSpring means the invoice will be sent from them and the charges on your credit card bill will appear differently. Otherwise, you will be getting exactly the same license with the same level of support and commitment from us.

We are still be keeping our current option. Mainly because of VAT. FastSpring is located in the US, hence, customers in the US or EU will be paying VAT, excluding EU companies with VAT ID. While this is not a problem, we still want the option for individuals to buy nWire through our direct channel and enjoy a VAT free transaction.

Having two payment options could be confusing, so if you have a question, please send us an email or use the online chat box which appears on our shopping pages when we are online.

We are very happy to announce that nWire 1.3 is released. This new release is a free upgrade to all our existing customers. To upgrade an existing nWire installation, use the Eclipse Check for Updates feature or simply reinstall nWire from our update site at http://update.nwiresoftware.com. For more details on installing nWire see our download page. We moved our update sites to Amazon CloudFront infrastructure, so the installation should be very quick.

This release is focused on performance and polishing the user experience. We believe the new nWire is more mature and delivers higher quality. Read the full release notes.

Free Trials for Everyone!

If you tried nWire before and wish to try it again, you are welcome to do so. Simply install nWire and start a new, free 30 day trial today. Even if your trial expired in previous versions.

Important: Updated Pricing

This new nWire release is the result of a significant development effort. In light of these efforts, the prices of nWire will be updated. From the beginning of June, the base price for nWire (PHP or Java) will be $79 and the price for both products will be $129. You can still take advantage of our current prices before the end of the month: get nWire for PHP or Java for $59 and both for $99. For more pricing information and volume pricing, please visit our online shop.

nWire for PHP is finally getting a much deserved attention. Read the following press release which was done in cooperation with our partners at Zend.

Here's a Quote from Zeev Suraski, co-founder and CTO at Zend Technologies:

"As PHP applications scale and meet rapidly expanding requirements, the use of advanced, design-pattern based architectures is becoming more and more widespread. While advanced frameworks like Zend Framework provide great basis to build on, making the most of them can sometimes be challenging. nWire's solution, sporting tight integration with Zend Studio 7.0 and PDT, enables developers to build and maintain complex, large-scale applications while greatly reducing the time and pain normally involved with understanding existing application architecture and code. I believe many developers will find it as an invaluable addition to their toolbox."