IONA Technologies Announces Strategic Agreement with Rational Software Corporation; Announcement Brings Visual Modeling to CORBA Applications.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7 1997--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) today announced a strategic relationship with Rational Software Corporation (NASDAQ:RATL RATL Raising Achievement Transforming Learning (Specialist Schools and Academies Trust) RATL Renaldo and The Loaf (music duo) RATL Rapsyn-Associated Transmembrane Linker RATL Rockin' ATLanta ) to provide enhanced platform and tool support for developing distributed software applications. Under the agreement, IONA will support the UNIX-based Rational Apex A comprehensive Ada development environment for Unix systems from IBM. The tools extend to Ada 95/Ada 83 development as well as support for C/C++. Rational Apex evolved from the original, proprietary hardware-based Ada environment that Rational Machines was founded on in the early 1980s. C++ compilers in its industry-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 addition, Rational and IONA will develop and publish object models of the IONA libraries for use with the industry-leading Rational Rose family of visual modeling tools. The collaboration between IONA and Rational will provide customers with the benefits of wider platform support and conformance to the Object Management Group's Common Object Request Broker Architecture (standard, programming) Common Object Request Broker Architecture - (CORBA) An Object Management Group specification which provides a standard messaging interface between distributed objects. The original CORBA specification (1. (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 ) industry standard. CORBA has become an important standard for cross-platform integration and development, achieving widespread use in the 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). marketplace. As a result, there is a growing demand for appropriate tools and technologies to support development with CORBA. The Rational Rose product family is designed to provide software developers with a complete set of visual modeling tools for developing robust solutions to real business needs in the client/server, distributed enterprise, and real-time systems Real-time systems Computer systems in which the computer is required to perform its tasks within the time restraints of some process or simultaneously with the system it is assisting. environments. IONA and Rational will jointly publish Rational Rose models of class libraries from IONA's Orbix. This will enable developers to distribute their applications by using Rational Rose to model their distributed system See distributed computing. distributed system - A collection of (probably heterogeneous) automata whose distribution is transparent to the user so that the system appears as one local machine. , including the Orbix libraries, and then invoking the Rational Rose IDL (1) (Interface Definition Language) A language used to describe the interface to a routine or function. For example, objects in the CORBA distributed object environment are defined by an IDL, which describes the services performed by the object and how the data (Interface Definition Language See IDL. Interface Definition Language - (IDL) 1. An OSF standard for defining RPC stubs. 2. Part of an effort by Project DOE at SunSoft, Inc. to integrate distributed object technology into the Solaris operating system. ) generator to produce CORBA 2.0-compliant IDL. IONA's Orbix will also support Rational Apex C++ and Rose Developer, UNIX-based integrated programming environments. The IDL generated by Rational Rose can be compiled by the Orbix IDL compiler to produce C++ code, which can be managed, compiled, and tested by Rational Apex C++. Rose Developer enables developers to analyze and interpret an existing CORBA application by creating a visual model of their application, and then to seamlessly iterate it·er·ate tr.v. it·er·at·ed, it·er·at·ing, it·er·ates To say or perform again; repeat. See Synonyms at repeat. [Latin iter back and forth from model to code developed in the Apex framework. "Our focus is to provide our customers with integration with the best tools, technologies and platforms to enable them to build enterprise-wide distributed applications," according to Colin Newman, executive vice president of marketing at IONA Technologies. "By working closely with a leading tools vendor such as Rational, we are ensuring that developers can generate CORBA-based solutions with the click of a button." "Customers creating distributed systems can benefit from the combination of IONA's Orbix and Rational's industry-leading tools for developing sophisticated software," said Joe Marasco, vice president and general manager of Rational's programming tools business unit. "This agreement makes it easier for users to design, implement, and deliver distributed component-based applications quickly and easily." Availability Rational Apex C++ and Rose Developer are available today. Orbix for Rational Apex C++ on Sun Solaris is available today. Rational Software Corporation (NASDAQ:RATL) develops, markets, and supports a comprehensive solution that automates the component-based development of software. Rational's solution includes an integrated family of products that automate development and quality assurance throughout the software lifecycle, a software process that can be configured to the specific needs of customers, and a range of consulting and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . For more information on Rational's products and services, visit Rational's Web site at http://www.rational.com 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(r), allows organizations to build software components (or objects) with open, standard interfaces so that they can communicate with any other software conforming to the same standard. According to IDC's market research, Orbix, which is used by over 2,000 businesses worldwide, is the world's leading object middleware product. Orbix, conforms to the Object Management Group's CORBA specification. Earlier this year, IONA's Orbix won the prestigious Network Computing magazine Well-Connected Award as "Best Orb Middleware" and the company was chosen for an "Editors' Choice" award from Software magazine's Software 500 listing. Internet: http://www.iona.com - Information: press@iona.com -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. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners CONTACT: IONA Technologies Inc. Tom Murphy, 1-888-orbixPR (6724977) tmurphy@iona.com or IONA Technologies plc Ltd. Niamh Murphy, +3531 662 5255 nmurphy@iona.com or IONA Technologies Asia Pacific Pty Diana Wearing Smith, +61-8-9288 4051 dianaws@iona.com |
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