Expersoft and Modulus to provide the industry's most scaleable and reliable distributed operating system environment.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 1996--Expersoft Corp. (San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. ) and Modulus Technologies Inc. (Houston) have joined forces to develop the first comprehensive integration of message-oriented middleware Message-oriented middleware comprises a category of inter-application communication software that generally relies on asynchronous message-passing as opposed to a request/response metaphor. into 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) technology. Together, Expersoft's PowerBroker CORBAplus and Modulus' InterAgent Toolkit will set the industry standard for scaleability and reliability utilizing object request broker technology. Expersoft will make the Modulus technology a fundamental part of its distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. product line of application development and deployment tools. The technologies supplied by Expersoft and Modulus are highly complementary. By adhering to the 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 standard, PowerBroker CORBAplus ensures that objects are constructed and behave in a uniform way. Modulus' InterAgent Toolkit provides both a transport mechanism and a suite of communications services, ensuring that CORBA objects are delivered reliably and intelligently to one or more recipients, no matter how large or complex the network. By seamlessly integrating InterAgent into PowerBroker's CORBA-compliant architecture, Expersoft is providing customers with a single powerful distributed 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. environment which fully incorporates the strengths of both technologies. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Neal Waddington, Expersoft president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , CORBA has done a good job of specifying what distributed objects should look like and how to reference them, but no other vendor has supplied a comprehensive development and deployment environment for large, business-critical applications. "As distributed object computing becomes more important for mainstream enterprise application deployment, reliability, scaleability, and fault tolerance become mandatory characteristics. Think of a network as akin to a shipping company: we are offering customers Federal Express service while most vendors are still only offering regular mail." The announcement comes at a time when large hardware vendors, including 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 Digital Equipment Corp., are scrambling to integrate message-oriented middleware into their respective ORBs. The Expersoft/Modulus partnership represents the most serious integration effort of its kind by two platform-independent developers -- and an early entry into a market expected to grow rapidly into the multi-billion dollar range. Expersoft will market and support the combined technologies as part of its PowerBroker product lines and will distribute the software through its worldwide channels. "Our joint goal is to create the market-leading environment for building and managing enterprise-class distributed object applications," said Rex Shelby, Modulus president. "We are excited about Expersoft's direction, and we believe that the PowerBroker/InterAgent combination will immediately offer a flexible, reliable environment for customers who need to bring the advantages of object technology to large-scale, mission-critical distributed applications." About Modulus Founded in 1992, Modulus develops and markets distributed computing tools and is a technology leader in distributed communications middleware. Modulus' InterAgent Toolkit provides the capabilities of message-oriented middleware through a unique architecture of intelligent routing agents which efficiently handle the routing of information throughout complex mixed platform and network environments. Modulus is headquartered in Houston and distributes its products primarily through OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and VAR channels. Customers using the Modulus technology span a wide range of application areas and industries throughout the world. Representative users of the technology include AT&T, Wells Fargo, AirTouch, IBM, Nortel, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform and Newbridge Networks. About Expersoft Founded in 1989, Expersoft develops and markets a distributed operating system environment that enables Global 1000 organizations to build, deploy and manage mission-critical applications. Recognized as a pioneer in distributed object computing. Expersoft delivers products with the scaleability, interoperability and performance required for full-scale, enterprise-wide distributed production applications. Since 1991, leading companies have been deployed on Expersoft technology in the fields of telecommunications, financial trading, electronic commerce, and high technology consulting. Representative customers include Sprint, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce TSX: CM NYSE: CM, better known to most customers as CIBC, is one of Canada's major banks. CIBC is classified as a Domestic Chartered Bank (Schedule I). , Goldman Sachs, Intuit, and Andersen Consulting. Expersoft products are sold direct as well as through value-added resellers. The company is headquartered in San Diego and has offices throughout North America and distributors in Europe and Asia. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: PowerBroker and CORBAplus are trademarks of Expersoft Corp. InterAgent is a registered trademark of Modulus Technologies Inc. All other product and company names are trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Expersoft Corporation Lois Leslie, 619/824-4116 or Upstart Communications Cindy Fay, 510/420-7285 or Modulus Technologies Inc. David Berberian, 713/523-7211 |
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