Objective Interface, Developer of World's Smallest, Fastest ORB, Announces Communications Middleware for New CORBA/e Standard

is one of the validations ofCORBA as a high-performance open architecture for embedded and real-timesystems."

ORBexpress RT has been evaluated and results are available from a varietyof independent benchmark tests, including those conducted by LockheedMartin's Advanced Technology Laboratories.(1)

"During our extensive performance testing of CORBA ORBs and during ourevaluations of other forms of communications middleware, we concluded thatCORBA can be very small, extremely fast and fully optimized for theindustry's highest-performance applications," said Gautam Thaker, TechnicalLead, who benchmarks communications middleware for the DistributedProcessing Lab at the Advanced Technology Laboratories.

Industry Support for ORBexpress RT

"ORBexpress RT validates that real-time CORBA can perform with tremendousspeed and extremely low latency, particularly when coupled with the fastmessage passing and context switching behavior of our INTEGRITY Real-TimeOperating System," stated Dave Kleidermacher, vice president ofengineering, Green Hills Software.

"Over the years, we have worked with Objective Interface to meet the needsof mission-critical mil/aero and telecommunications systems integrators,"said Rob Hoffman, senior director, aerospace and defense, Wind RiverSystems. "In our experience, ORBexpress RT has been able to meet even themost stringent requirements of real-time, embedded and high-performancesystems based on our real-time operating environment, VxWorks."

"Our experience with real-time CORBA, and specifically with ORBexpress RTfrom Objective Interface, has shown that CORBA can be used to build smallfootprint, real-time and high-performance embedded systems intelecommunications, industrial control, aerospace and defense and otherapplication areas," said Steve Blackman, director of business development,military and aerospace, LynuxWorks. "We have found that ORBexpress RTcomplements our LynxOS real-time operating system, which providesuncompromising performance for ultra-reliable, high-performance systems."

The Evolution of CORBA: From Enterprise Servers to Embedded Systems

CORBA was originally conceived to allow applications interoperability onheterogeneous systems, such as back-office enterprise systems running UNIXand desktop Windows systems. Initial versions of CORBA were focused onfeatures and were not optimized for size and performance. In recent years,however, the emergence of real-time and embedded CORBA was driven by userdemand, especially in the telecommunications and defense industries, whereusers were interested in the advantages of CORBA for embedded systems. TheCORBA/e specification is the result of a collaborative effort among OMGmembers focusing on real-time and embedded systems.

There are two profiles of CORBA/e. CORBA/e Compact Profile is a proven,high-performance architecture designed from the ground up formission-critical and high-performance embedded applications, includingimage and signal processing systems. CORBA/e Micro Profile is ideal forresource-constrained applications such as mobile devices based on low-powerprocessors or high-end digital signal processors (DSPs).

As with standard CORBA, CORBA/e provides the benefit of code reuse.Developers do not need to re-write code for all systems on a network whenthey want to make changes, thus preserving their investment in existingapplications. For more information on the CORBA/e standard, please visitthe OMG at: www.omg.org.

About ORBexpress RT

ORBexpress RT is based on the Real-time Common Object Request BrokerArchitecture (CORBA) standard that enables real-time and embedded devicesin heterogeneous environments to communicate seamlessly. Thousands ofcustomers worldwide have used the ORBexpress communications infrastructureto build more flexible, upgradeable and capable products. Available in C++,Ada and Java, ORBexpress has been recognized repeatedly as the fastest ORBin the industry, such as in an independent study conducted by Boeing'sPhantomworks Group.

"The OMG's CORBA/e specification is designed for the world's most demandingapplications in mission-critical environments. It is ideally suited formilitary/aerospace, communications systems such as Software Defined Radio,banking/finance, robotics and industrial control," said Bill Beckwith,CEO/CTO, Objective Interface Systems. "Objective Interface's ORBexpress RTfulfills even the most rigorous requirements for high-performance andreal-time communications middleware in these environments."

Availability

ORBexpress RT for the CORBA/e platform is available today from ObjectiveInterface. For more information on Objective Interface communicationsmiddleware, please visit: www.ois.com/products, call 1 800-800-OIS7 in theU.S., +33 (0) 6 68 35 15 45 in Europe or +81 (0) 3-5623-2112 in Japan ore-mail inquiries to: info@ois.com.

About Objective Interface Systems

Objective Interface is the worldwide leader of high-performance, real-timeand embedded communications middleware solutions. The company providesCORBA ORBs, publish-subscribe technology based on the Object ManagementGroup (OMG) Data Distribution Service standard (DDS) and securecommunications middleware development tools based on the MILS architectureto meet the high-performance requirements of military and aerospace,telecommunications, data communications, industrial automation and processcontrol, transportation, robotics and consumer electronics markets.Objective Interface products are the communications core of manymission-critical products and systems including mission-critical avionicssystems, network management, vehicle control and management systems,software defined radio, telecommunication systems, process control systemsand nuclear fusion ignition facilities. Customers of Objective Interfaceinclude Boeing, BAE Systems, British Aerospace, CERN, Daimler-Benz, EADS,Ericsson, Eurocontrol, General Dynamics, Harris, Hughes Network Systems,ITT, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, LockheedMartin, Lucent, Nikon, Nortel, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, RockwellCollins, Saab, Samsung, Sandia, TEAC, TRW, the U.S. Department of Defenseand many others. For more information, please visit: www.ois.com.

ORBexpress is a registered trademark and PCSexpress is a trademark ofObjective Interface Systems. All other product and company names aretrademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

(1) See benchmarks at Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories’website: http://www.atl.external.lmco.com/projects/QoS/orb/index.html.

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VETRANO COMMUNICATIONSMaria VetranoPhone: 617/876-2770Email: Email Contact

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