Santeon Announces its Commitment to Rich Media Application by Developing Arabic Support for Silverlight 2

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Santeon, Inc. a leading provider of Rich Internet and media applications and platforms today announced its support and commitment to rich media application development by offering Arabic support for Silverlight 2. The components will be available for download for free to users who wish to develop Arabic or multi-language business enterprise and media applications. Microsoft® Silverlight™ is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web and Santeon is considered one of the leading expert organizations in the architecture, design and development of Silverlight based applications.

Mr. Mouneer Rabie, Santeon director of development, states, “We have embraced Silverlight since its inception and realize the value it brings to users seeking the rich and powerful experience they are used to having in desktop application for their Internet based systems”. “Santeon will continue to invest research and development efforts to further the success of internet application by being at the forefront of innovation in media as well as Enterprise Application”, commented Mr. Rabie. “We are also very proud that one of our Sr. Architects Mr. Yasser Makram has been the top technical contributor to the Silverlight technical forum since its inception. You can visit the forum at http://silverlight.net/forums” continues Mr. Rabie.

“We are very excited to have Santeon contribute to the Arabic support for Silverlight 2 and we believe that this will encourage more local as well as regional adoption of Silverlight 2” commented Mr. Sherif El Touny, ISV Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Egypt

Silverlight 2 Arabic support is currently in Beta testing and will be available to developers to download early Q2-2008. The components will be available for free, however, organizations seeking to use the components royalty free will have to adhere with the standard licensing terms and conditions. “We will make the process very easy and seamless and readily available to anyone who wishes to use it free of charge, while we continue to protect our intellectual property” comments Dr. Ash Rofail, President of Santeon.

“Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) provides a platform for building applications offering incredibly rich user experience that integrates Media, Animation, Documents, and 3D. ASP.NET provides a platform for building cross-browser, cross-platform data driven web applications. However, there was a gap in the .NET technology continuum, Silverlight came to fill this gap and provide a rich user experience cross-browse, and cross-platform. Unfortunately Silverlight 2 did not include built in support for Arabic text. As part of Santeon’s commitment to the developers community, we are releasing this set of components in order to enable Arab developers to develop rich applications for Arab users.“ commented Mr. Yasser Makram, Santeon Sr. Software Architect.