IONA Technologies Delivers The Most Advanced CORBA Platform Available With Its Orbix 2000; Next Generation of Company's Platform Middleware Available Immediately in Beta.DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 1999-- 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 leading provider of solutions designed to create and deploy eBusiness applications, today announces Orbix 2000(tm), the Company's new high-performance 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 engine. Orbix 2000 is a CORBA(r)-based platform for developing, deploying and managing high-performance and highly scalable distributed applications, including enterprise portals and embedded applications, in C++. It is a highly flexible and configurable platform, featuring a microkernel (1) The part of an operating system that is specialized for the hardware it is running in. The other components of the OS interact with the microkernel in a message-based relationship and do not have to be rewritten when the OS is ported to a new platform. architecture supporting IONA's Adaptive Runtime Technology(tm) (ART(tm)) framework. Orbix 2000 is a member of IONA iPortal Suite(tm), the Company's collection of server solutions for the creation and management of enterprise portals. "We have thoroughly evaluated Orbix 2000, and we are very pleased," said Michael J. Greenberg, manager of object technology development, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Systems, Inc. "We are particularly excited about the product's modular architecture. It will let us configure our applications, using only those CORBA features we need. And it will let us use our own plug-ins to add customized application services See ASP and Web services. ." "As the world's leading provider of CORBA middleware products, IONA has supported some of the largest enterprise distributed applications ever built," stated Dr. Michael Waclawiczek, senior product manager for Orbix 2000 at 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. . "Today, this market is moving to embrace the Internet by building systems called enterprise portals. These applications must incorporate existing applications, support tens of thousands of users, and very large numbers of objects, and evolve and expand over time while leveraging existing investments. IONA's Orbix 2000 is expressly designed to provide the robust infrastructure that these portals - and other next-generation distributed applications - require." "We are very impressed with IONA's Orbix 2000," said Dr. Richard Soley Richard Mark Soley (Baltimore, Maryland) is the chair and CEO of Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG); as such, the vision and direction of the consortium are his responsibility. , chairman and chief executive officer of the Object Management Group. "This product represents the kind of standards-based development, deployment and management technology that enterprises will need to expand their use of distributed object Distributed objects are software modules that are designed to work together, but reside either in multiple computers connected via a network or in different processes inside the same computer. computing and component-based applications. As businesses look to integrate their enterprise-wide distributed applications, they need products such as Orbix 2000 that take advantage of CORBA's ability to access applications regardless of language or platform." High-Performance CORBA C++ Platform Orbix 2000 is IONA's next-generation CORBA platform. It offers support for the latest CORBA standards, including a range of CORBA interoperability features and the new, flexible Portable Object Adapter (architecture) Portable Object Adapter - (POA) Part of the CORBA architecture. (POA). With its high-performance, enterprise POA implementation, Orbix 2000 gains significant scalability and performance characteristics, including support for extremely large numbers of both coarse and fine-grained objects. And Orbix 2000's POA-oriented object location and activation system extends POA scalability, and provides support for group binding to objects, shared objects, and object migration to larger servers, with minimal administrative overhead. Orbix 2000 features IONA's Adaptive Runtime Technology (ART) framework, a modular architecture for which several patents are pending. The ART architecture provides more efficient deployment and simpler application maintenance relative to monolithic middleware solutions. The product incorporates an innovative platform middleware component architecture, which is exposed as a plug-in framework. The framework allows developers to load application functionality and services - such as transports, shared memory, ATM, or Naming and Locator - via this plug-in architecture. The architecture supports loading only those plug-ins that are required, and the list of plug-ins can be changed without modifying or recompiling any code. This capability lends great flexibility in the selection and deployment of standard CORBA services and custom code. In support of enterprise portals and other large-scale distributed applications, Orbix 2000 supports: - A range of load balancing and failover strategies. - SSL-based CORBA security. - Transactions and transactional operations. - Centralized server configuration and management facilities. - Database interfaces, via CORBA Persistent Storage Service (PSS See EPSS. ). - Support for Microsoft's COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. + via the XML-based Simple Object Adapter Protocol (SOAP). - CORBA interoperation with Microsoft COM objects via OrbixCOMet, IONA's dynamic CORBA/COM bridge. Beta Program Details A beta version of Orbix 2000 is available immediately to the general public from IONA's Web site (www.iona.com). The Orbix 2000 Beta Program will run until March 1, 2000. The company plans to release at least one updated version of the beta product, containing additional functionality as well as quality enhancements, to beta program participants. About IONA Technologies IONA Technologies is a leading provider of products and services to organizations building enterprise portals, Internet commerce sites, and other large-scale distributed applications. IONA is committed to supporting the full diversity of languages - including Java and C++ - and distributed computing technologies - including Enterprise JavaBeans, CORBA, Microsoft's Windows DNA 2000 and 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) CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without and IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. - used by today's development organizations. More information about IONA Technologies is available from the company's Web site (www.iona.com). NOTE TO EDITORS: To access IONA press releases and background material on the web, visit: http://www.iona.com/news/pressroom/. If you would like to receive IONA press releases by e-mail, contact Sarah Lima at sarah.lima@iona.com. IONA and Orbix are registered trademarks of IONA Technologies. CORBA and the Object Management Group (OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group ) are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Object Management Group, Inc in the US and other countries. Enterprise Java Beans and Java are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems. Making Software Work Together, IONA iPortal Integration Server, IONA iPortal Server, IONA iPortal Application Server, Orbix 2000, Adaptive Runtime Technology (ART) are trademarks of IONA Technologies. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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