Chevron chooses IONA Technologies' Orbix for standards-based enterprise solution.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 1997-- Solution integrates 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). and Windows platforms 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. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : IONAY) is today announcing Chevron Petroleum Technology Company's (CPTC CPTC Clover Park Technical College (Lakewood, Washington) CPTC California Private Transportation Company CPTC Clinical Proteomic Technologies for Cancer (biomedical research initiative) ) decision to deploy IONA's leading 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. , Orbix in a systems integration project to bring together a range of technical applications and data from Chevron's worldwide Exploration and Production Business Units. Orbix and 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 were chosen following a successful pilot project. Chevron, like most major oil companies uses a mix of purchased applications from a variety of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) as well as applications developed in-house. This approach has resulted in a diversity of incompatible data formats and applications. To solve this problem, CPTC has developed a series of data object servers that abstract the proprietary datastore formats. These data object servers utilize IONA's Orbix and are intended to be deployed worldwide to over 600 UNIX workstations (incorporating Sun, Silicon Graphics and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) ) and Windows desktops. Along with data object servers, CPTC is also constructing a catalog to manage the diverse datastores, an event gateway to broker vendor proprietary interprocess events/messages, and other applications services. These all constitute a distributed object Distributed objects are software modules that are designed to work together, but reside either in multiple computers connected via a network or in different processes inside the same computer. data framework which CPTC has entitled "OIL" (Object Integration Layer). Clay Harter, Geophysical Consultant at Chevron commented: "Using our Object Integration Layer, we are able to write in-house value-added applications that can integrate with the variety of vendor applications that our Business Units utilize without requiring revision. This will lower the cost of software development, allow our users to pick the best vendor product, and improve our end-users efficiency. We chose IONA's Orbix because of the broad platform support - we need to be able to deliver a uniform solution on Sun, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , and IBM UNIX workstations. In addition, we plan to use IONA's CORBA/COM integration to deploy PC clients that exploit UNIX based servers." "The value of a standards-driven infrastructure is being recognized by organizations in every industry," according to Colin Newman, executive vice president of marketing at IONA Technologies. "Chevron's use of Orbix lets them build a complete cross-platform solution utilizing the benefits that each platform and application offers whilst removing the traditional problems associated with integrating diverse resources. Chevron can concentrate on integrating 'best-of-breed' solutions to deliver a fast compelling solution." Chevron is committed to working with software vendors to utilize a standards based approach. To this end Chevron and IONA are actively working with POSC POSC Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation POSC Payroll Online Service Center (state of Maryland) POSC Personnel Occupational Specialty Code (Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation - see www.posc.org), a not-for-profit oil industry consortium, to establish and promote standards for a distributed object architecture. Chevron is also actively working with Shell and other companies in the OpenSpirit Alliance. The OpenSpirit Alliance (a joint industry project of oil companies and software vendors) is committed to ensuring that a commercial implementation of an open distributed object framework for sub-surface interpretation and analysis becomes available by early 1998. IONA Technologies, was founded in 1991, with the mission to enable businesses to integrate multiple, diverse software applications, spanning the entire distributed enterprise. IONA's leading product, Orbix, allows organizations build software components (or objects) with open standard interfaces so that they can communicate with any other software conforming to the same standard. Orbix, which is used by over 2,000 businesses worldwide, conforms to the Object Management Group's CORBA specification. -0- For further information please contact: Internet: http://www.iona.com - Information: press@iona.com Orbix is a registered trademark of IONA Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their owners. -0- NEW IONA TECHNOLOGIES MEDIA HOT-LINE 1-888-orbixPR Recent IONA Press Announcements available from http//www.iona.com/new.html 1) IONA Technologies Reports Record First Quarter Results 2) IONA Technologies Announces Strategic Alliance with KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen Peat Marwick 3) IONA Technologies Announces Integrated Suite to Provide Full Enterprise Service Infrastructure 4) IONA Technologies Expands Orbix Mainframe Support to Cobol, CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without and IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. 5) IONA Technologies and International Systems Group Announce Integration of Orbix and IBM's MQSeries CONTACT: USA Tom Murphy IONA Technologies Toll free: 1-888-orbixPR (6724977) tmurphy@iona.com OR Europe Asia Jillian Godsil Diana Wearing Smith IONA Technologies IONA Technologies +353-1-602 2114 +61-9-288-4000 jgodsil@iona.com dianaws@iona.com |
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