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• September 2011
  Summer 2011 Sale News from LassoSoft
  Rachel Guthrie
  Starting Sept 22 each day until October 1st there is a super-saving offer made available to Lasso users who are connected via Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and LassoSoft's own LassoTalk list. The End of Summer promotions are seeing discounts as high as 50% off some types of licenses. These deals are only promoted to people who are following LassoSoft and each deal only lasts for 24hours.
• July 2011
  Lasso 9 Server Has Arrived
  Kerry Adams
  LassoSoft is very pleased to announce that Lasso 9, the fastest, most powerful version of Lasso ever created, is now available as Final Candidate Release.
• June 2011
  Lasso 8.6b2
  Rachel Guthrie
  We've been burning the midnight oil to bring you more new developments - and yes, this time there are a significant number of fixes included!. We're pleased to announce to you that today we are releasing Lasso Professional 8.6b2. The supported platforms for Lasso 8.6b2 include Mac OS 10.5/6 (ppc/i386) and CentOS 5.5 on both 32 and 64 bit.
• June 2011
  Lasso 8.6b3 Available
  Paul Higgins, Lassosoft
  Lasso Developers, We are pleased to announce the release of Lasso Professional 8.6.0b3 for Mac, Linux, and Windows platforms. Download instructions can be found using Read More.
• June 2011
  New Cancom UK Website Speed and Performance Powered by Lasso 9
  Andrea Gust
  The new Cancom UK e-commerce site experiences rates of requests of over 500 per second, and Lasso 9 is proving to handle this without breaking a sweat. One of the primary goals of moving to Lasso 9 was to provide a highly responsive site for the end user. The developer, the client, and the end user have seen the benefits of this improved performance immediately following the update, and there are some impressive findings to be seen.
• June 2011
  Lasso 9.1 now in Beta
  Rachel Guthrie
  LassoSoft announced June 18 that Lasso 9.1 with Server Instance Manager is now in Beta testing. Drawing on the skills of the Certified Lasso Developers and subscribed members of the Lasso community, final testing of this new enhanced version of Lasso 9 has begun.
• June 2011
  LassoSoft To Attend FileMaker DevCon 2011
  Rachel Guthrie
  LassoSoft announced today that Team Rhino will make the trek from Toronto to San Diego to attend FileMakers "Go Farther" DevCon. Lasso and Filemaker have had a long history together and Lasso's continued strong performance in security and Unicode make it an ideal partner of current web systems for FileMaker data.
• May 2011
  LassoSoft bronze level partner with MacTech
  Rachel Guthrie
  LassoSoft becomes a bronze level sponsorship of MacTech BootCamps. While Lasso is not exclusive to Mac, a large number of Lasso users have a long affinity with all things Mac. MacTechs BootCamps are one day events for consultants and techs packed full of troubleshooting, security, networking tips - all useful to those managing mac systems and servers.
• March 2011
  LassoSoft Inc New Website Launched
  
  LassoSoft Inc. launched a new website March 17, 2011, offering the latest product versions of its web programming language, Lasso 8.6 and Lasso 9. It also united the various websites previously supported by the company, fusing its marketing message, developer support documentation, and client communication channels into a single source.
• March 2011
  Lasso8.6b2 Release Features and Fixes
  
  Lasso 8.6 is a community requested release primarily to address critical issues with 8.5 and to support newer OS versions and 64bit. Some enhancements were also added. See this article for the full list of features as at the b2 release version.
• January 2011
  Lasso Professional Server 8.6 Beta, and the new Public Bug Tracking website
  Kerry Adams
  We've been hard at work, with our noses to the grindstone, to bring you some exciting new developments. We're pleased to announce to you that today we are releasing Lasso Professional 8.6b.
• December 2010
  /Treefrog Interactive Inc Buddies Up With Lassosoft
  Sean Stephens
  LassoSoft Inc. to build a home base with Treefrog Interactive Inc. Treefrog™ is a longtime supporter and user of the Lasso software product line, and now LassoSoft are being incorporated into their Canadian operations.
• October 2010
  Euro Lasso Conference, October In Berlin
  Jonathan Guthrie
  We are excited to help announce the Euro Lasso Conference to be held in Berlin, Germany on 30-31 October 2010. With a packed program of technical presentations, social time and coding sessions, this is an event not to miss. Admission is just €68.00 for both days and includes coffee and refreshments throughout the day as well as a 2 course lunch. Space is limited to just 40 seats, so please sign up now to reserve your place! Registration must close at noon on 15 October. Please visit us and sign up at http://www.eurolasso.com/
• June 2010
  News Update for June 25, 2010
  
  This announces the move for Lasso 9 documentation toward a collaboration effort between LassoSoft and Lasso developers. We believe that through collaboration, the documentation will reflect the voice of the developer community.
• May 2010
  News Update for May 21 2010
  
  We've successfully implemented the yum updater and installer for the US and EU LassoSoft servers. This will be a very convenient and cool option for people who wish to take advantage of auto-updating and installs for Lasso.
• April 2010
  News Update for April 30 2010
  
  From the Awesome News Department: The Debian build for Lasso 9 is done, and from what Kyle says, went very smoothly. It will be available for use soon, if it isn't already.
• November 2009
  2009 Lasso Conference Content Available Online
  
  LassoSoft has a channel on YouTube, and it's populated with content from the 2009 Lasso Developer Conference in Amsterdam: http://www.youtube.com/user/LassoSoft
• May 2008
  Lassosoft Ends Support For Adobe GoLive
  
  
• July 2007
  Lassosoft Announces Support For Filemaker Server 9 And Quick Start Guide
  
  LassoSoft, LLC announced official support for the FileMaker 9 family of products in Lasso Professional 8.5 and Lasso Developer 8.5. With the release of FileMaker 9 Lasso can now access FileMaker databases directly through FileMaker Server. This eliminates the need, and expense, of the FileMaker Server Advanced product for Lasso installations.