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edtn.com
"Europe draws map for embedded systems and software
By Peter Clarke
EE Times
(03/22/01, 10:52 a.m. EDT)
MUNICH, Germany — A major European collaborative R&D program founded by many of the continent's leading systems companies has published a software road map that will be used to help direct approximately $3 billion in future spending and to build consensus in Europe on standards and preferred technologies over the next 10 to 15 years for embedded and distributed systems.
The ITEA (Information Technology for European Advancement) program intends to use the "Technology Roadmap for Software Intensive Systems" not only to direct collaborative research spending over the project's life span, but also to help attack a software productivity gap that is growing larger and is predicted to get much worse. ..."
"...ITEA was formed in July 1999 by Alcatel, Bosch, Bull, DaimlerChrysler, Italtel, Nokia, Philips, Siemens, Thales and Thomson Multimedia, and has so far committed about $500 million to about 30 multicompany projects. National governments typically fund half a project's cost, with companies paying the rest. ..."
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