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The growing mix of operating systems and form factors in today’s enterprise and consumer markets presents an unprecedented opportunity for developers who are able to deliver their application to multiple platforms. The problem facing developers is the time and resources needed to deliver rich modern applications with native UX fidelity and performance across different operating systems and versions. Enter FireMonkey FM2 – the business application platform for building visually stunning Enterprise class and ISV packaged applications for and Mac OS X Mountain Lion using a single codebase.

Create applications on multiple platforms that standout from the crowd Increasingly enterprises and consumers alike make application Windows 8 Mac OS X purchasing decisions based on support for both Windows and Mountain Lion Mac. Additionally, end users are drawn to visually engaging user experiences. With FireMonkey FM2 you can create native or custom user experiences that provide a distinct competitive advantage in the market. Support for both Windows and Mac 2 gives you a wider addressable market and a competitive edge. C++ You’ll get pixel perfect user interfaces with beautifully designed FM Metropolis styles, built-in access to common gestures with multi-touch support and GPU-powered vector based HD UI and graphics with fully programmable animations and effects and more, so your applications can stand out from the crowd. ISV to Enterprise on Multiple Platforms FireMonkey FM2‘s flexible built-in database, cloud and middleware Fastest Path to Windows 8 and OS X Mountain Lion connectivity make it easy to build scalable enterprise-class With FireMonkey FM2 you can now quickly give your applications applications or packaged desktop software for Windows and Mac the Windows 8 UI style and user experience yet still deploy to clients. Integrated support for all popular RDBMS servers and n-tier older Windows versions and Retina Ready Mac OS X with native middleware is available in , C++Builder and RAD Studio UI fidelity. Your applications will run great on Windows 8 PCs Enterprise editions. Industrial strength embedded database support and x86 based tablets including Microsoft’s Surface Pro and you for Windows and Mac enable you to easily build packaged “turn-key” can take advantage of Windows 8 capabilities such as gestures, applications that ship with lightweight to enterprise-class embedded live tile support, full screen behavior, sensor components and databases. Integrated cloud connectivity makes it easy to leverage deploying natively to Mac OS X with a native user experience. Amazon and Azure cloud services in your applications.

“FireMonkey is something close to revolutionary. It crosses borders in ways that will impact the way that we do things, or rather, the way we get things done. Force multiplier application platform for Windows and Mac OS X It brings new meaning to Software developers are facing more challenges than ever as uses wants apps that native development, offering run on more operating systems and more devices than ever before. FireMonkey FM2 powerful solutions.” enables you to target more platforms in less time and with less effort.

– B. J. Rao, Intricad

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Windows 8 Metropolis Pixel Perfect UIs OS X Mountain Lion

• Project templates for creating • Pixel perfect raster based OS native • Deploy to OS X Lion and Mountain Windows 8 style apps with full control styling Lion screen display, touch and Live Tile • Anchors and layout management • Retina ready representation • Retina ready for high resolution Mac • Native UIs or custom styles • Easy one-click conversion for existing displays apps • 3rd party pro-designer styles • Windows 8 sample applications Windows & Mac - one Animation and effects Popular native codebase programming languages

• Over 50 built-in GPU powered effects • Create Windows and Mac OS X • Apply multiple simultaneous effects applications using a single C++ or • Timeline based animation to create • Use RAD visual programming tools Delphi codebase motion, transitions and effects • C++Builder XE3, Delphi XE3 and RAD • Native power and performance Studio XE3

FireMonkey FM2 system requirements FireMonkey FM2 development requires Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3 or RAD Studio XE3 running on or Later FireMonkey applications run on multiple platforms with these requirements Supported virtualization products for running Windows OSX in a Virtual Machine (host requires GPU) • Basic GPU – Any vendor DirectX 9.0 class or better (Pixel Shader Level 2) • Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) • VMWare Fusion 4.0 • 32 bit or 64 bit Windows • Lion 10.7 • Microsoft® Windows 8 (No WinRT support) • Snow Leopard 10.6 • Microsoft® , SP1 • 2 GB RAM or more • Microsoft® Windows XP, SP3 (Runtime only) • All Intel Macs have a qualified GPU • Microsoft® Windows 2008 Server, SP2 • Microsoft® Windows Vista®, SP2® • Microsoft ® Windows 2012 Server® (Runtime only)

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