Aonix enters agreement with IONA and OIS to integrate Aonix ObjectAda with the CORBA-compliant Orbix/Ada.PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 1996--Aonix has entered an agreement with Objective Interface Systems Inc. (OIS Noun 1. OIS - agency that oversees the intelligence relationships of the Treasury's offices and bureaus and provides a link between the Intelligence Community and officials responsible for international economic policy Office of Intelligence Support ) and IONA Technologies IONA Technologies, NASDAQ: IONA, began life as a campus company in Trinity College, Dublin and was founded by Chris Horn, Annrai O'Toole, Colin Newman and Seán Baker.[1][2] IONA maintains headquarter offices in Dublin, Boston and Tokyo. to integrate the Aonix ObjectAda development environment with Orbix/Ada, an object request broker See ORB. (programming) Object Request Broker - (ORB) Part of the OMG CORBA specification, an ORB's basic function is to pass method invocation requests to the correct objects and return the results to the caller. (ORB), jointly developed and marketed by OIS and IONA. The integration merges the full life-cycle Ada 95 development environment from Aonix with tools providing the capability to run component-based Ada 95 applications on a distributed basis, interoperating across a wide variety of operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Orbix/Ada represents the market's only development environment offering a CORBA-compliant ORB for Ada 95, the first internationally standardized, fully object-oriented (OO) programming language. Aonix ObjectAda is the first fully validated Ada 95 environment available on the major commercial development platforms in the industry. Orbix/Ada is fully interoperable with all other versions of the Orbix product, including Orbix/C++ and OrbixWeb (for Java), enabling cross-language as well as cross-platform integration of robust Ada 95 applications. All Orbix products meet the specifications of the Object Management Group's (OMG's) CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global 2.0 (Common Object Request Broker Architecture (standard, programming) Common Object Request Broker Architecture - (CORBA) An Object Management Group specification which provides a standard messaging interface between distributed objects. The original CORBA specification (1. ) for distributed, component-based applications that interoperate with a variety of operating systems. "Use of the Ada language has grown significantly in recent years, expanding beyond the defense industry to a range of large-scale, high-profile, commercial projects," said Annrai O'Toole, chief technical officer at IONA Technologies. "The joint effort with Aonix promises to enable even more widespread Ada deployment, while meeting the Department of Defense's recently enunciated requirement for CORBA-compliant solutions." "With the integration of ObjectAda and Orbix/Ada, the entire enterprise can now benefit from the full power and performance of robust and sophisticated Ada 95 applications," said Bill Beckwith, vice president of business development at Objective Interface Systems and co-author of the original OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group IDL (1) (Interface Definition Language) A language used to describe the interface to a routine or function. For example, objects in the CORBA distributed object environment are defined by an IDL, which describes the services performed by the object and how the data -- Ada 95 mapping. "When IDE and Thomson merged to form Aonix earlier this year, one result was the capability to offer full life-cycle software development support by using ObjectAda in conjunction with Aonix modeling, analysis and design toolsets," says Jacques Brygier, product marketing director, Aonix. "With this agreement, ObjectAda is now CORBA-compliant, extending its current reach in application deployment, as well." As part of the agreement, Aonix will be a reseller of the ObjectAda version of Orbix/Ada. Joint marketing efforts are also planned, starting with the TriAda conference this week in Philadelphia. The integrated Orbix/Ada is expected to be completed and available for distribution in the first quarter 1997. Pricing is not yet available. About Aonix ObjectAda Aonix ObjectAda includes the first object-oriented (OO) Ada 95 development environment for Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. 95 and NT systems and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms from Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and Hewlett-Packard. ObjectAda is also the first Ada 95 based environment to allow full interoperability with C++ and Java thanks to the AppletMagic technology from Intermetrics. It is targeted to technical application developers in aerospace, defense, medical device, process control and other industries, providing a highly flexible, stable and affordable object-oriented environment that is superior to the C++ language for the development of complex technical and real-time applications. A key Aonix offering combines the firm's industry-leading ObjectAda development tools with its Software through Pictures(R) (StP) object-oriented modeling Object-Oriented Modeling, or OOM, is a modeling paradigm mainly used in computer programming. Prior to the rise of OOM, the dominant paradigm was functional programming, which emphasised the use of discreet reusable code blocks that could stand on their own, take variables, perform , analysis and design toolsets, and TeleUSE (Aonix' advanced GUI builder Visual programming software that lets a user build a graphical user interface by dragging and dropping elements from a toolbar onto the screen. It may be a stand-alone program or part of an application development system or client/server development system. tool) to provide full life-cycle software development support. About Aonix Aonix, with headquarters in San Francisco, is a $75 million powerhouse in the OO tools market and one of the top 50 software companies in the world. The firm was formed in November with the merging of two market leaders: Interactive Development Environments Inc. (IDE), a veteran player in the modeling, analysis and design tools market, and Thomson Software Products Thomson Software Products (TSP) was a software development corporation based in Norwalk, Connecticut with engineering and support facilities in Norwalk and San Diego, California. Established in July 1995, the corporation became half of Aonix in 1996. , a diversified tools company whose products and extensive service portfolio span the implementation and deployment phases of high-end software development. Aonix currently has over 80 salespeople and 80 consultants worldwide, serving Thomson's 20,000 installations and half a million users, and IDE's 18,000 users worldwide. The merger positions Aonix to offer a new end-to-end OO development platform for even greater penetration into both the commercial and technical markets, and to increase its presence in the data warehousing tools market. About IONA Technologies, Inc. IONA Technologies is the world's leading provider of CORBA- conforming solutions. Its principal product, Orbix, is the technical and market leading implementation of the OMG's CORBA specification. With Orbix, programmers can develop distributed, object-oriented applications following a consistent and straightforward, standards-based model. OrbixWeb 2.0 is the last version of IONA's Java object request broker including full IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol) The CORBA message protocol used on a TCP/IP network (Internet, intranet, etc.). CORBA is the industry standard for distributed objects, which allows programs (objects) to be run remotely in a network. (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (protocol, standard) Internet Inter-ORB Protocol - (IIOP) A protocol which will be mandatory for all CORBA 2.0 compliant platforms. The initial phase of the project is to build an infrastructure consisting of: an IIOP to HTTP gateway which allows CORBA clients to access WWW ) support. OrbixWeb dramatically increases the power and scope of Internet applications, by extending the distributed object technology paradigm to the World Wide Web. IONA also supplies CORBA services which run on top of Orbix, including OrbixTalk, the definitive implementation of the OMG's Events services, and the Orbix Naming Service. In its December 1995 issue, UNIX Review Magazine selected Orbix as one of the "Outstanding Products of 1995." About Objective Interface Systems Inc. Founded in 1989, Objective Interface Systems Inc. (OIS) of Reston, Va., develops and markets tools for software developers. OIS is originally known for its Ada development tools and expertise -- Screen Machine, a tool for building portable, graphical user interfaces, and Ada_SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. _Connect, an ODBC-based Ada library for developing platform and vendor independent SQL applications. OIS also develops and supports Ada products for Sybase. As co-developer of Orbix/Ada, the all-Ada implementation of IONA's market leading object request broker, OIS is actively promoting the use of CORBA in the Ada community. OIS is a full service reseller of IONA's Orbix products and training, including Orbix for Ada 95, Orbix for C++, Orbix for Windows and OrbixWeb (for Java). -0- Aonix is a registered trademark of Aonix Corp. Orbix is a registered trademark of IONA Technologies Inc. All other company and product names are the trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Aonix Marigene Justice, 415/543-0900 marigene@aonix.com or UpStart Communications Sharon Egan, 208/726-5551 segan@upstart.com or OIS Tami Stein, 703/295-6529 tami.stein@ois.com |
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