WIND--Leading Embedded CORBA Implementation Now Available Through Wind River Direct Program; VisiBroker for Tornado and pSOSystem Available Through Wind River Systems Global Sales Force
BUSINESS WIRE - March 15, 2000 16:55
LAKELAND, Fla., Mar 15, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The HighComm(TM) division of Highlander Engineering, Inc., the leading provider of middleware for connecting intelligent devices, announced today that its Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) compliant VisiBroker(TM) for Tornado(TM) and pSOSystem(TM) products may now be purchased directly from Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), under the Wind River Direct(TM) program. Wind River Direct provides one-stop shopping, allowing customers to purchase certified, integrated development tools and accessories directly from Wind River.
Curt Schacker, vice president of corporate marketing for Wind River, commented: "Wind River has seen increasing demand for CORBA-compliant middleware. By including VisiBroker in the Wind River Direct program, we are now providing more complete solutions to our customers with distributed applications. Our experience with VisiBroker has been exemplary. We're very happy to now be able to offer it directly to our customers."
David Barnett, vice president of marketing at Highlander, remarked: "The ability of Wind River to offer one-stop shopping represents a tremendous convenience to our mutual customers, who can buy with confidence knowing that Wind River has certified the VisiBroker integration with Tornado and pSOSystem. Having our products represented by the embedded software market leader puts us in an excellent position to capitalize on the burgeoning market for CORBA solutions."
About VisiBroker
VisiBroker accelerates the development of distributed applications by providing an object-oriented framework that insulates software developers from the details of interprocessor communication and underlying system architecture. A major feature of VisiBroker is support for a CORBA-compliant Object Request Broker (ORB). CORBA-compliance gives VisiBroker-based application components the ability to transparently interoperate with objects implemented on any of the more than 50 platforms with CORBA support, including all common Windows, Unix and Linux variants. CORBA also provides seamless communication between components implemented in different programming languages, such as C, C++ and Java. Additional VisiBroker features include support for high availability, customizable interceptor and security schemes, and optimizations for embedded and real-time requirements.
Major application areas for embedded VisiBroker are telecommunications and data communications equipment, defense electronics, manufacturing systems and medical instrumentation. These devices use VisiBroker for communication between their internal processors (up to several thousand in a large telecommunications switch), between each other and with enterprise computing platforms. VisiBroker also provides the means by which devices are managed, monitored and controlled from PCs and workstations, often using Java- and Web-based user interfaces.
VisiBroker for Tornado and pSOSystem are developed in partnership with Inprise/Borland Corporation (Nasdaq:INPR) and they are based on the same proven technology as the Inprise/Borland VisiBroker for Java, Windows, Unix and Linux products. With support for all major embedded and enterprise computing platforms, VisiBroker is the ideal solution for organizations integrating heterogeneous systems.
About the HighComm Division of Highlander Engineering
An embedded CORBA pioneer, HighComm (Highlander Communications) was the first to offer embedded implementations of the CORBA 2.0, Minimum CORBA and Real-Time CORBA specifications. HighComm customers include Ciena, Cisco, DaimlerChrysler, GE Medical, Fujitsu, Lockheed, Lucent, Matsushita, Motorola, Nikon, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Pratt & Whitney and Raytheon. HighComm is a division of Highlander Engineering, Inc., a leading provider of design, implementation and porting services to users of commercial real-time operating systems. Highlander was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Lakeland, Florida. For more information, visit Highlander on the Web at highlander.com.
HighComm is a trademark of Highlander Engineering, Inc.
Wind River, pSOSystem, Tornado and Wind River Direct are trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc.
VisiBroker is a trademark of Inprise/Borland Corporation.
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