IONA Continues CORBA Innovation and Leadership; Upgrades Across Company's CORBA-based Products Further Solidifies Industry Position.DUBLIN, Ireland & WALTHAM, Mass. -- IONA(R) Technologies (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 : IONA), a world leader in high-performance integration solutions for mission-critical IT environments, today announced immediate availability of important upgrades across the company'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 (R)-based product lines, including Orbix(R) 6, Orbix 3 and Orbacus(TM). The updates reflect an understanding of the evolving requirements of IONA's customer base and the company's dedication to meeting those needs via its CORBA technologies. "Our enterprise customers consider CORBA a critical component of their IT infrastructures, and as such, it is the very integration fiber of some of the world's largest telecommunications exchanges and global banking systems," explained Peter Zotto, 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. , 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. . "The CORBA-based technologies we offer must consistently support our customers' evolving needs, such as new versions 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. , compilers and JDKs. IONA has long been the premiere provider of CORBA-based technologies and we will continue to be into the future with product updates that meet our customers' requirements and raise industry standards." For customers that have deployed Orbix 6, IONA's enterprise-class CORBA integration technology, a new service pack is now available. In addition to upgrades that make it easier to securely manage Orbix deployments in large production systems, users can address services via CORBAloc so that core Orbix services can be addressed with a URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. . Also, new per request client binding provides more flexible load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them . Further, Orbix 6 now supports a range of popular operating systems including SUSE Enterprise Linux 9, Solaris 10 and Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. AS 3.0. Per client PID (1) (Process IDentifier) A temporary number assigned by the operating system to a process or service. (2) (Proportional-Integral-Derivative) The most common control methodology in process control. activation, new to Orbix 6, also improves ease of migration from earlier Orbix 3 deployments. Even with improved migration features included in Orbix 6, IONA recognizes that many customers successfully running Orbix 3 will not have the need, or desire, to migrate their deployed applications. To that end, the company has indicated that it will continue to support its Orbix 3 users and provide relevant updates. With the release of the most recent Orbix 3 service pack, Orbix 3 can be deployed on Red Hat Linux AS 3.0. This is the first time Orbix 3 has been ported to Linux and represents the company's ongoing commitment to this customer base. IONA has also made available an upgraded version of Orbacus, the company's source available CORBA ORB technology. In addition to new platform support including JDK (Java Development Kit) A Java software development environment from Sun. It includes the JVM, compiler, debugger and other tools for developing Java applets and applications. Each new version of the JDK adds features and enhancements to the language. 5.0, Red Hat Linux 4.0 and SUN Solaris 10, Orbacus 4.3 incorporates support for the CORBA Asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. Method Invocation (AMI) specification, which allows the design of asynchronous, non-blocking clients without change to server-side design. AMI requires less resource usage than the Notification service and eliminates the need for the application to wait on long running calls. About IONA For more than a decade, IONA(R) Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneered standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix(R) products. Artix(TM), IONA's extensible Enterprise Service Bus, enables existing enterprise systems to be integrated with an organization's common infrastructure components. IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts and offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com. IONA, IONA Technologies, the IONA logo, Orbix, Orbacus, Artix, Mobile Orchestrator and Making Software Work Together are trademarks or registered trademarks of IONA Technologies PLC and/or its subsidiaries. CORBA is a trademark or registered trademark of the Object Management Group, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks that may appear herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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