Announcing Intel Fortran for Windows 7.0 and CVF Special offer

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Intel Corporation is pleased to announce the availability of Version 7 of the
Intel Fortran Compiler for Windows*. Intel is extending to owners of Compaq*
Visual Fortran 6.6 a limited time offer for a highly discounted price in order
to take advantage of the latest Intel Fortran Compiler for Windows. You will
be able to purchase the commercial version of this product at the discounted
price only through your local resellers and if you own a CVF 6.6 product. For
detailed information about this program, and the list of authorized resellers,
please visit:

http://intel.com/software/products/compilers/fwin/pricelist.htm

Major features of Intel Fortran for Windows 7.0 include:

* Processor Support: Advanced optimization features for the latest Intel
processors, including the Intel Pentium 4, Intel Xeon, and Intel
Itanium and Itanium 2 processors, to deliver great performance for your
applications.

* Compaq Visual Fortran* and Microsoft Visual Studio* Compatibility: The Intel
Fortran Compiler now provides strong compatibility features with Compaq Visual
Fortran to ease the porting of applications developed with Compaq Visual
Fortran. Features include: strong source compatibility, extended Fortran 95
compiler, integration with Microsoft debugger, .mod files for Win32* API
interfaces, Fortran source code colorization, Optimizer Report Generation, and
the inclusion of the Intel Array Visualizer. The Intel Fortran Compiler 7.0
for Windows also provides plug-in compatibility with Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET, as well as Visual Studio 6.0, and is usable from a command line on
system where Compaq Visual Fortran* 6.6 is installed - no need to have
Microsoft Visual C++ installed.

* Threaded Application Support: The Intel Fortran Compiler for Windows
enables multi-threaded application development and optimization through its
support of the OpenMP* 2.0 standard, the Auto-parallelization feature, and its
support of Hyper-Threading Technology.

* Support Services: Intel Fortran Compiler for Windows* includes one year of
support services with your product purchase. You get technical customer
support, upgrades, new releases and more.

For more product information about Intel Fortran for Windows, and the full
line of Intel Software Development Products, please see:

http://developer.intel.com/software/products

Please note that Intel Fortran for Windows 7.0 is not the "combined
technology" product merging Compaq Visual Fortran and Intel Fortran. Compaq
Visual Fortran 6.6 remains a current product and is sold and supported by
Hewlett-Packard. We invite questions about Intel Fortran for Windows and
Compaq Visual Fortran in our user forum at:

http://developer.intel.com/IDS/community

Sincerely,

Software Products Division
Intel Corporation

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[timeghost]

Does HP plan to discontinue CVF?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

See here. When the combined technology product is released, HP will probably stop selling CVF 6.6 - HP won't offer any future versions of CVF, but version 6.6 continues to be sold and supported until then.

Steve