CORBA Scales to More Than 75,000 TPS on Zero Latency Demonstration at the OMG's November Meeting.

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13,1999--

At the OMG's most recent Technical Meeting week held in Cambridge, MA, last month, attendees were treated by sponsor Compaq Computer Corporation to a demonstration of its breakthrough zero latency enterprise (ZLE) solution. Based upon massively-parallel and scalable Compaq NonStop(TM) Himalaya servers, Compaq ProLiant servers, and Compaq Tru64UNIXAlpha servers, all connected by CORBA-conformant Object Request Brokers, Compaq demonstrated a high-volume, production-scale telecommunications solution that supports transaction rates of more than 75,000 CORBA(R) transactions per second -- five times the combined call rate of the world's five largest telecommunications companies.

The ZLE demonstration, carried live via satellite from Cupertino, Calif. to the OMG meeting, featured a 111-terabyte real-time operational data store (ODS) containing 100 billion call detail records - the world's largest commercial database. The solution heavily utilized CORBA technology at very high TPS rates using both Java and C++. It also simultaneously processed customer service inquiries at 1000 TPS, conducted data mining with 128-way parallel queries, wrote summary data to several data marts on remote platforms, published events and supported online data base reorganization.

"This is an impressive demonstration of what enterprises can gain by leveraging OMG's technologies. Our members are delivering real-world solutions of historic proportions today," commented Richard Soley, CEO of the Object Management Group. "With their ZLE offering, Compaq provides an impressive bundle of hardware, software, and services for demanding customers who have high-end, transaction-intensive environments such as telecom, financial services and Web-based organizations."

The Zero Latency Enterprise architecture demonstration utilized Compaq NonStop(TM) DOM and Compaq NonStop(TM) JORB middleware that conforms to the OMG's CORBA Architecture. However, users will be able to mix-and-match a variety of CORBA conformant configurations including Java Objects, ORBs, IBM MQSeries middleware, TP monitors, EAI (enterprise application integration) software and data stores.

"One of the points of the demonstration was to emphasize the reliability, high availability and scalability of CORBA-based mission critical enterprise applications. They're not just industry buzzwords, jargon and hype. This functionality is available now. Compaq is already in the process of developing commercial implementations of the Zero Latency Enterprise solution for industries other than telecommunications, including finance, e-business, and retail. Compaq will also be adding CORBA 3.0 features by the end of 2000." said ZLE chief component architect, Thomas Rohner, Compaq Business-Critical Server Division.

For copies of the presentation, see http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?omg/99-11-05. For more information on CORBA 3.0 and the CORBA Component Model see http://www.omg.org/news/pr98/compnent.html. For more information on Compaq's ZLE solutions, see http://www.compaq.com/zle/.

About The OMG

With the support of its membership of software vendors, software developers and end users, the OMG's CORBA is "The Middleware That's Everywhere(TM)." Since 1989, the OMG has been "Setting The Standards For Distributed Computing(TM)" through its mission to promote the theory and practice of object technology for the development of distributed computing systems. The goal is to provide a common architectural framework for object-oriented applications based on widely available interface specifications. The OMG is headquartered in Framingham, MA, USA and has international marketing offices in Bahrain, Brazil, Germany, India, Italy, Japan and the UK, along with a healthcare representative in Pelham, AL, USA and a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC, USA. Additionally, the OMG is a sponsor of Ziff-Davis Trade Shows and Conferences in this technology area.

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