Why MyrmecoX?

1. Integration

   Many enterprises face integration challenge for their computing infrastructure, resources, and Internet applications. MyrmecoX is a tool to help enterprises rapidly and smoothly complete their tasks.

2. Productivity

   MyrmecoX can help developers desing, debug, and test their Tcl scripts and extensions rapidly. So MyrmecoX can save your time, reduce the development cost, and speedup to market.

3. Complexity

   MyrmecoX is an integration software product. Its intrinsic complexity has the same degree as an enterprise to integrate its applications. So with minor software fee developers can get the big ROI.

4. Economics

   With enough time and resources talents, an enterprise can develop its own tools. But MyrmecoX provides a fast and economic solution. It allows an enterprise resources focus on its own tasks.

You may ask several questions before you buy MyrmecoX:

1. Are you planning to use Tcl in your project?

   MyrmecoX is an IDE especially for Tcl.It focus on Tcl. So MyrmecoX includes a full Tcl debugger and many Tcl binary extensions.

2. Do you develop applications for Windows?

   Tcl is for cross-platforms. The prefer platform of MyrmecoX is Windows. That is to say all your Tcl codes devloped by MyrmecoX will work for Windows smoothly. However you can port them to other platforms such as Linux. So if your answer is yes, MyrmecoX is the right software for you.

3. Do you need management for a large project?

   MyrmecoX is best suitable for the development of large Tcl applictions. It is a framework and toolkit to manage thousands Tcl codes. MyrmecoX Enterprise also allows a team of developers to work on a shared library over a Windoes server, a multiple user development environment.

4. Do you want customized services?

   You may need some special components in your project. Neatware can help you design and implement Tcl extensions in contract.

5. Do you want to distribute your Tcl applications in binary codes.

   MyrmecoX Runtime in the MyrmecoX IDE is free distribution for MyrmecoX users. In MyrmecoX IDE you can generate a short Tcl executable file (.exe) on Windows. Then, you can distribute your own MyrmecoX Runtime along with your executable program to your customers. In this way all your applications are completely like the normal windows applications. Neatware will also provide the source code for installation, so developers can build their own packages.

6. What are the advantages that the MyrmecoX vs. the free Tcl distribution?

   If you are not serious to develop large Tcl project and you have no deadline, the free Tcl distribution is suitable for you. TkCon in the free Tcl allows you to edit and run one Tcl script without debugger support. However, in a large Tcl project, you need to code, debug, and test a large number of Tcl codes simultaneously. Multiple source code editor and debugger are enough to distinguish MyrmecoX from the free software.