VVI^® today announced public availability of Vvidget™ version 8.4.3 for Mac OS X. Ed Van Vliet, CEO of VVI, made this statement:

"Vvidget includes several major components: A draw tool specialized to laying out 2D graphs, a preconfigured web graphing server, an Interface Builder palette for simple charts, two strip chart applications for plotting CPU and network performance in realtime, and an online user manual. This is the first public release of these tools since Apple shipped them in 1997 bundled with their own products. In the last six years these tools have undergone significant restructuring so we could support them for the current version of Mac OS X. The result is, I think, a very impressive foundation for a present product offering and also for significant growth in the future."

John adds: "Although we have been continuously developing and selling the Vvidget-Pro version for twelve years, this is just the start of the Vvidget-User version. We intend to support and upgrade it aggressively, just as we have the Vvidget-Pro version, in order to achieve the best product possible for our customers. For that purpose we are providing Vvidget as a download, with an introductory discount, and plan a follow-up free upgrade at the end of June.

We have also listened very closely to concerns regarding price and availability. Vvidget is $89 for commercial users, $49 for student users, and the Interface Builder palette version for programming is free of royalty charge for both types of users. In order to support the development community and to aggressively add new functionality to the palette version we have added an optional support plan for $149 per year which includes standard updates to the palette version."

To learn more about Vvidget please see Vvidget.

About VVI: VVI^® is a privately held corporation founded in 1989. VVI's customers are world-leading companies in the banking, biotechnology, chemical, financial services, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries. Systems that VVI helped build have been operational for years and at this time are monitoring billions of dollars worth of products in real time and on a global scale. These systems are, in part, based on VVI's Vvidget Pro^™ and Peer Visual^™ products.