IONA Technologies Announces Availability of OrbixOTM With Support From Over 200 Organizations.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 1998--Over 200 organizations are announcing their support for IONA 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 :IONAY) OrbixOTM which is shipping on general availability today. OrbixOTM is a suite of tightly integrated software products including transactions, systems management, directory services and security coupled with IONA's leading Orbix(r) product. This unprecendented level of industry support for a 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 product clearly underlines the momentum behind IONA's vision of Making Software Work Together(tm). In addition, it highlights the success of IONA's approach of working closely with customers, partners, software vendors, resellers, systems integrators and consultants, primarily through the OrbixWise(tm) partner program, to deliver the best corporate solutions. "OrbixOTM has received a phenomenal response from our partners and customers," commented Colin Newman, executive vice president of marketing at IONA Technologies. "The suite has been designed following extensive feedback on what tools are required to support the design, development, deployment and management of large sophisticated applications. The level of support for OrbixOTM is indicative of the growing popularity of Orbix and highlights the vast range of third party products and services available to companies looking to build solutions with our Orbix product family." "OrbixOTM brings a new level of CORBA functionality to the Sun Solaris platform," said Reed Hornberger, director of market development for Sun Microsystems Computer Company. "By combining CORBA functionality and transaction services, OrbixOTM provides a powerful software solution required by developers building distributed enterprise applications on the Solaris platform." "Rogue Wave will support IONA's market-leading entry into OTM OTM See: Out of the money. technology by adding the ability to utilize OrbixOTM transaction management capabilities from DBTools.h++," said David Rice, director of product marketing at Rogue Wave Software. "This will provide a powerful, C++ data access solution for developers of distributed, transaction processing applications." "We are excited that, through our partnership with IONA, Object Design has directly integrated OrbixOTM with ObjectStore, our industry leading object-oriented database management system Noun 1. object-oriented database management system - a database management system designed to manage an object-oriented database hypermedia, hypermedia system, interactive multimedia, interactive multimedia system - a multimedia system in which related items of ," said Justin Perreault, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. for Object Design, Inc. "This combination of technologies enables our joint customers to easily manage distributed transactions involving ObjectStore-based applications across heterogeneous, enterprise-wide computing environments, further enabling the continued shift to distributed component-based computing." "Transactional integrity is an important step in supporting large-scale, mission-critical distributed object applications," said Dan Gregerson, PeerLogic 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. . "IONA's OrbixOTM product adds transaction robustness to distributed applications and offers extended functionality to PeerLogic customers who combine ORB technology and messaging communications." "18 months ago, an Object Transaction Manager was the vision of technology strategists. IONA's OrbixOTM transforms this vision into reality," commented Garry Bulmer, Chief Technology Officer at Parallax. "Parallax's blue chip clients value our skill in delivering mission critical solutions, through our business focus and in-depth collaboration with customers and trusted strategic partners. Parallax understands the real value of IONA's OrbixOTM. It's robust foundation supports mission critical environments 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We view OrbixOTM as a core enterprise technology." "Over the last year, Persistence and IONA have teamed to deliver significant web applications -- applications instrumental to administering benefits to 50,000 employees, delivering two million packages nightly, and making the human genome available to researchers worldwide," said Christopher Keene, President of Persistence Software. "We have seen first hand what customers require to build high performance, scalable CORBA systems in these demanding environments. IONA's OTM will vastly simplify the task of creating rock solid web applications." "SEMATECH SEMATECH Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology organization (A consortium of US Semiconductor companies) has developed a CIM (1) (Computer-Integrated Manufacturing) Integrating office/accounting functions with automated factory systems. Point of sale, billing, machine tool scheduling and supply ordering are part of CIM. Framework using Orbix. We are developing many CIM Framework compliant applications and we are leveraging OrbixOTM to create factory integration plug-and-play services," according to Kevin Nguyen at Mitta Technology Group Inc. "The release of IONA's OrbixOTM represents a major milestone in the evolution of CORBA-based systems infrastructure. OTM contains significant capability that will reduce the effort required to deliver enterprise distributed object computing The UML profile for Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC) is a standard of the Object Management Group in support of open distributed computing using model-driven architecture and Service-Oriented Architecture. solutions that require reliability, scalability, and robust security." commented Hans K. Wolf, Director, Object Technology Consulting Practice, The Technical Resource Connection. "The partners of 2AB have had a long relationship with IONA beginning with the development of the IONA MVS product. The release of the OTM underscores IONA's commitment to the enterprise customer," according to Carol Burt, President and CEO 2AB, Inc. ISA Services, a Chicago-based systems integrator with expertise in building CORBA-based solutions, is enthusiastic about IONA's introduction of their new OrbixOTM product. "OrbixOTM represents the industry's best ORB-based integrated solution to date and enables us to offer to our clients a complete infrastructure for building enterprise architectures from robust distributed components," commented Steven Jones, Director of Technology at ISA Services. The 200 companies announcing support for OrbixOTM include: Aasher Inc., Advanced Software Consulting, AIS Spa, AMS AMS - Andrew Message System , AnaSys AG, APM Ltd (UK), Applicom, Applix, Arc Information Technologies, Ardent (o2), Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, Aurora Technologies, Aurora Software, Austin Software Foundry, Baufest, Black & White, Beacon Technologies Pty Ltd, Black Sun Computer Technologies, Blueprint Technologies Inc., Brainstorm Technologies, Brainware Pty Ltd., Cape Cod Bay Systems, Catalyst Solutions Inc., Cirrus Technologies Pty Ltd, CMG Finance, Computadoras Objectos Communicaciones (COC), Comware Aus, Consultancy & Projects Group Srl (Italy), Context, Copper Key Technologies, CresSoft, Inc., Cunav, Cambridge Technology Partners (Ireland), Deductive Systems, DiaLogos, Diamelle, Inc., Digital Equipment Co Ltd, DRM Servicos De Consultoria S/C Ltda., Dokken Software Inc, DRW Systems Inc., Dynasty Technologies Inc., Ecomm Soft, Electronics Automaton Systems Inc., Enea Data, Entersoft Systems Corporation, Eshwar Technologies, Exlibris, Fastcase, Forge Information Technology (Australia), Franz Inc., FSJ, Inc. (N.A.), Gallant and Associates, Genesis Development Corp., Geodesic Systems LLC, GFT Software GmbH, GH Software, Malaysia, Global InfoTek, Gradient Tech, Grayhill Systems, Green Mountain Geophysics, Gricor, Haden Technologies Inc., Hopper Training, Human Interface Engineering Pte Ltd., I-Kinetics, ICT, Ideal Objects S.A., Intelitech, ISA Services Inc., Interactive Object Solution Inc., Intersoft S.A., ISG Daily Business Products, ISM, It Serve, IMA (Interactive Multimedia Association, Annapolis, MD) An earlier trade association founded in 1988 originally as the Interactive Video Industry Association. 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OOPL - object-oriented programming language Sydney, OOPL Singapore, OOTec GmbH, 101Net, Inc., Optimation New Zealand Inc., Orbism, Ordina T.C., Orion, Osix Pty, Open Information Technologies, Openwave Computing, Paradigm Integrated Services, Paragon, Parallax, PeerLogic, Persistence, Philcom, POINT Information Systems, ProActive Computer Services Inc., Quidnunc, Quoin quoin In architecture, both the external corner of a building and, more often, one of the stones used to form that corner. These stones are both structural and decorative in that they often differ in jointing, colour, texture, or size from the masonry of the adjoining walls. , Raptor, Rogue Wave Software (NASDAQ:RWAV RWAV Rural Workforce Agency Victoria (Australia) RWAV Room With A View ) , Sapient Corporation, Sequent, SEC, SDRC (company) SDRC - The company behind VGX. http://sdrc.com/. , Silicon Graphics, Software Synergy, Inc., Sun Syllogistics LLC, S&P Media, Saphyre Group, Silicomp, SiIicomp Asia, Silicon Mindset Inc., SMARTS, Smile Sarl, Softech LLC, Software Synergy Inc., Soleri Cigel, SpaceAge Consulting, Storm Technologies Ltd, STR, Sun Microsystems Computer Company (NASDAQ:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) , Syntax I.T. Inc., Systems Synthesis Ltd (SSL) , Systema GmbH, SYS-X Corporation, TakeFive Software GmbH (Germany), TCAM (TeleCommunications Access Method) IBM communications software widely used to transfer data between mainframes and 3270 terminals. See access method. , Technowork-Componentes De Software, TechOne, The Bulldog Group, The Cushing Group, The Longview Group, The Technical Resource Connection, Thought Inc., 3S, Tonex Corporation, Tong Yang Systemhouse, Toyo Information System, Trifolium Inc., Turret Technologies Inc., 2AB Inc., Versant, Vircom TG, Virtual Partners Inc., Vayda, VERILOG, Visix Software, Viosoft, Worldmachine Technologies Corporation, Webvibe Corporation, Waysys Inc., Xense Technologies Inc., Xenotrope Inc., Xersys Technologies Ltd. Pricing and Availability OrbixOTM is generally available on Sun Microsystems' Solaris Operating System today. The Windows NT version is available from the end of February. Support for other operating systems will follow shortly. OrbixOTM is priced at $11,000 per developer on 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). platforms and $6,500 per developer on Windows NT. Server runtimes are priced dependent on machine specification. Founded in 1991, IONA Technologies (NASDAQ:IONAY) is in the business of making software work together. IONA's leading product, Orbix(r), provides customers with a standards based enterprise middleware solution to make diverse software components work together in a reliable, dependable and scaleable manner. According to IDC's market research, Orbix, which is used by over 3,500 businesses worldwide and conforms to the Object Management Group's CORBA specification, is the world's leading object middleware product. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: To access IONA press releases and background material on the web, visit: http://www.iona.com/Press/. If you would like to receive IONA press releases by e-mail, contact Tom Murphy at tmurphy@iona.com. Orbix is a registered trademark of IONA Technologies. Making Software Work Together is a trademark of IONA Technologies. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: IONA Technologies Inc. Tom Murphy / Sarah Lima, 1-888-orbixPR (6724977) tmurphy@iona.com / sarahl@iona.com OR IONA Technologies PLC Niamh Murphy, +353 1 6022114 nmurphy@iona.com OR IONA Technologies Asia Pacific Pty Ltd. Diana Wearing Smith, +61-8-9288 4051 dianaws@iona.com |
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