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Concurrent's NightStar Tools For Linux To Offer New Graphical Interface and Enhanced Real-Time Application Debugging And Tuning.


NightStar 4.1 Includes Improved GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface.  Control and Application Illumination Feature For Increased Programmer Productivity

DULUTH, Ga. -- Concurrent (NASDAQ NASDAQ
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:CCUR CCUR Center for Crops Utilization Research ), a leading provider of time-critical Linux[R] 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.  and integrated software Separate software components or applications that have been combined into one package. See integrated software package.  and computer solutions for mission-critical applications, today announced that it will soon offer a new version of its popular NightStar[TM] integrated software tool set. NightStar is widely used for debugging and analyzing time-critical applications running on Concurrent real-time Linux operating system operating system (OS)

Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs.
 distributions RedHawk[TM] Linux[R] and SUSE[R] Linux Enterprise Real Time from Novell[R].

NightStar version 4.1 features a complete graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI)

Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to
 (GUI) makeover that makes it more flexible and easier to use. NightStar's current Motif GUI will be replaced by a Qt-based presentation with more modern rendering, shading and option control. The new version allows individual tool panels to be moved and resized to make it easy for users to customize their debugging displays.

"The features we've added to NightStar, including the new Qt GUI, continue Concurrent's tradition of offering the most advanced yet easy-to-use debugging environment for troubleshooting and tuning complex Linux software applications," said Vince Hauber, Concurrent Senior Product Manager. "This is the very reason why major programs such as the U.S. Navy's Aegis Combat System The Aegis combat system is an integrated missile guidance system used by the United States Navy. It is both an integrated single ship system and a ship-to-ship network. The Aegis combat system is one of the most advanced and most capable defense systems currently in use.  continue to be longstanding NightStar users."

The NightStar suite includes the NightView[TM] source-level debugger, the NightTrace[TM] event analyzer, the NightProbe[TM] data monitor, the NightSim scheduler and the NightTune[TM] system and application tuner.

Key new features include:

* NightTrace event analyzer's Application Illumination feature, empowering programmers with automatic trace application function calls and the ability to examine parameters passed and returned. Application Illumination is customizable and can provide a complete view of glibc activities;

* Enhanced NightProbe data monitor providing live browsing, modification and graphical display of variables;

* NightTune tuner detailed display of system memory usage, presenting a new set of process statistics such as virtual memory and file descriptor usage and environment variables.

NightStar is Concurrent's powerful, integrated tool set for developing and analyzing time-critical applications. NightStar tools run with minimal intrusion, thus preserving application execution behavior and determinism. Users can quickly and easily debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. , monitor, schedule, analyze and tune applications in real-time.

NightStar 4.1 will be generally available June 2007.

Technical experts from Concurrent (Booth #516) will be available to answer questions on NightStar 4.1 and other Concurrent solutions at the ITEC ITEC Instituto de Tecnologia em Informática e Informação do Estado de Alagoas
ITEC International Therapy Examination Council (UK)
ITEC Internet Technology
ITEC Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation
ITEC Instructional Technologies
 2007 Conference and Exhibition, Europe's premier Defence Training, Education and Simulation conference, being held April 24-26, 2007 in Cologne, Germany.

About Concurrent

Concurrent (NASDAQ:CCUR) is a leading provider of high-performance, real-time Linux software and solutions for commercial and government markets. For 40 years Concurrent's best-of-breed products have enabled a range of time-critical solutions including: modeling and simulation, high speed data acquisition, visual imaging, low latency transaction processing and on-demand television. Concurrent's on-demand television applications are utilized by major service providers in the cable and IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet.  industries to deliver video-on-demand (VOD See video-on-demand.

VoD - video on demand
) and, through subsidiary company Everstream, measure the effectiveness of interactive television. Concurrent is a global company with regional offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, and has products actively deployed in more than 24 countries. Concurrent's products and services are recognized for being uniquely flexible, comprehensive, robust and reliable. For more information, please visit www.ccur.com.

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