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News Release from: PrismTech
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 April 2007
Survey offers chance to specify DDS
standard
Survey aims to provide a clearly focused perspective on the current and planned implementations of the Data Distribution Service for Real-Time Systems middleware standard.
PrismTech is assisting the Object Management Group (OMG) in conducting a survey designed to provide a clearly focused perspective on the current and planned implementations of the Data Distribution Service for Real-Time Systems (DDS) middleware standard The DDS standard is the first open middleware standard that directly addresses distributed, mission critical systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Jun 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Organisations currently or planning to operate, maintain or build a mission critical system are encouraged to participate in the survey.
Results are expected by the end of the year and will be posted on the OMG website.
"We worked closely with the OMG to create a survey that will not only help us understand the achieved and anticipated benefits of the DDS standard, but also help us uncover areas where future enhancements may be needed within the standard", says Steve Jennis, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for PrismTech.
Mission critical systems - those systems where the loss or latency of data can result in loss of life, financial disaster or social harm - require real-time, fault-tolerant, low-overhead middleware, and associated application development tools, according to OMG officials.
DDS, adopted by the OMG in 2003, is designed to address these needs.
"The industry has reached a critical mass of DDS implementations where it now makes sense to examine how, where and why the standard is being used".
"This survey also is a way to help us get a clearer picture of DDS' technology development and market potential", explains Jennis.
Due to the scalability limits and single point-of-failure topologies of traditional client/server middleware architectures, DDS specifies a publish/subscribe paradigm by which applications can dynamically connect to an "information backbone" in order to publish and/or subscribe to information.
The DDS standard can be implanted in numerous mission critical systems, such as shipboard combat management systems for the military, network management systems for commercial telecommunications, industrial control systems, or any number of computer systems related to homeland security, healthcare or financial institutions.
PrismTech, a strong supporter of open standards, has been an active member, contributor and sponsor of the OMG for more than a decade.
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