Realbasic has extrended it's offer for a free copy of RealBasic 5.5 to the
15th of April:
 
> Since we started giving away REALbasic keys to Visual Basic users two weeks
> ago, more than 10,000 new Windows developers like you have joined the
> REALbasic community. Unlike Visual Basic, REALbasic is fully supported and
> we will continue to improve it constantly based on feedback from you, our
> new users.
> 
> We are so excited by the positive response from the Visual Basic user
> community that we have decided to extend our offer of free REALbasic
> license keys through April 15, 2005. And we would like to ask for your help
> in getting the word out to more Visual Basic users who might not yet know
> about REALbasic.

Definitely worth a try - get your copy at

 http://www.realbasic.com/vb6/index.php?id=KQMCNGQN

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