SoftVelocity

SoftVelocity is a software company known as the distributor of Clarion, a family of application development systems used to build database applications, chiefly for Microsoft Windows. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing describes it as the distributor of the Clarion family and records that the Clarion product line was acquired by SoftVelocity in 2000. Clarion itself began as a DOS product created by Bruce Barrington and first released in April 1986 by Clarion Software, a firm that merged with Jensen and Partners International in 1992 and later became TopSpeed Corporation. SoftVelocity is the vendor named on the Clarion language and integrated development environment, a fourth-generation programming language with a template-driven code generator, and its latest release, Clarion 12, appeared on 15 May 2025. The sources read here do not state when SoftVelocity was founded or where it is headquartered.