Aonix Partners with PrismTech on Real-time Communications for Java Systems

Aonix’s PERC and PrismTech’s OpenFusion CORBA middleware combine to provide enhanced quality-of-service for distributed systems

San Diego, CA–July 15, 2009—Aonix®, the provider of the PERC® product line for embedded and real-time Java™ developers today announced that it is partnering with PrismTech™, an acknowledged leader in advanced software integration and infrastructure solutions.  Under the agreement PrismTech’s OpenFusion RTOrb Java Edition, the worlds most advanced real-time CORBA® middleware for the Java platform, is being ported to Aonix’s PERC Ultra Real-time Virtual Machine (VM).  The partnering agreement will also allow both companies to jointly market their advanced technologies to their mutual customer base.

This work was initially driven by the requirements of the LAMBDA (Libraries for Applying Model Based Development Approaches) System@tic project.  LAMBDA is a French regionally funded project with an overall budget of €5.3M and is made up of a consortium of 14 partners from both the commercial and academic worlds, including PrismTech France and Aonix.  The focus of this project is to develop and then subsequently promote the adoption of standards based COTS based execution platforms for embedded systems.  Four case studies are in process, one of which will implement the SysML/MARTE profile for Aonix’s PERC real-time Java platform.

“We are really pleased to be working closely with Aonix’s and expect to leverage real advantages from the PERC JVM technology,” said Andrew Foster, Product Marketing Manager at PrismTech.  “We are already seeing increased interest for our OpenFusion CORBA middleware since we started this work and we believe that our partnership will help deliver many technical and commercial benefits to the Real-time and Embedded Java development community.”

“As Java continues to grow in popularity for use in embedded and real-time systems,” said Gary Cato, Director of Marketing at Aonix.  “The Aonix/PrismTech relationship will enable both companies to effectively address the demand we’re seeing from our joint customers.  Availability of OpenFusion CORBA together with PERC Ultra and demand for efficient Java-oriented solutions like this one will nicely address their requirements.   

About the PERC Family
PERC Ultra is a virtual machine and toolset expressly created for demanding embedded and real-time systems requiring J2SE™ support. PERC Ultra delivers the ease and efficiency of Java™ Standard Edition support without sacrificing integrity, performance, or real-time behavior. The currently available version, PERC Ultra 5.3 offers Ahead-of-Time (AOT) and Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation, remote debug support, deterministic garbage collection, standard graphics and extended commercial RTOS support. PERC Ultra is the most deployed embedded and real-time virtual machine technology with over 1 million fielded systems.

About OpenFusion RTOrb Java Edition
OpenFusion RTOrb Java™ Edition was the first ORB to support the Real-time Specification for Java™ (RTSJ).  Unlike many other Real-time ORBs, OpenFusion RTOrb Java™ Edition also includes full enterprise level functionality and is therefore uniquely positioned to provide a single unified solution for different needs and uses, supporting both “hard” Real-time systems and enterprise level business applications with a single ORB.

Shipping and Availability
PERC Ultra is available immediately from Aonix.  PERC development tools are available at no charge in combination with a maintenance contract. Target execution and deployment license pricing starts at $25K based on projected volume. Contact PrismTech for availability and pricing of PrismTech’s OpenFusion RTOrb Java Edition.

About Aonix^®
Aonix offers mission- and safety-critical solutions primarily to the military and aerospace, telecommunications and transportation industries. Aonix delivers the leading highly reliable, real-time embedded virtual machine solution for running Java^™ programs deployed today and has the largest number of certified Ada applications at the highest level of criticality. Headquartered in San Diego, CA and Paris, France, Aonix operates sales offices throughout North America and Europe in addition to offering a network of international distributors. For more information, visit www.aonix.com.

About PrismTech
PrismTech is an acknowledged leader in advanced software integration and infrastructure solutions.  The company develops, markets, and supports a wide range of high-performance, standards-compliant, and cost-effective middleware products which are further differentiated by unique technical capabilities and advanced productivity tools.  PrismTech's products "Power Netcentricity" by enabling the event-driven communications, end-to-end qualities-of-service, and software optimization required to best exploit available resources, to better synchronize events, and to support system agility.  PrismTech's product's differentiators are most highly valued in markets that require business-critical and mission-critical systems.  These systems are pervasive in a number of vertical markets, such as Telecom, Mil/Aero, Finance, Utilities, Transportation, and Civil Administration.  PrismTech's customers constitute an impressive list of major systems integrators, OEMs, and ISVs, including many Fortune Global 500 companies. For additional information about PrismTech, visit the web site at http://www.prismtech.com.

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