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News Release from: Wind River Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 April 2004
Platforms to gain more Java
functionality
Wind River Systems is to offer the IBM WebSphere Micro Environment integrated into its Wind River Platforms.
Wind River Systems is to offer the IBM WebSphere Micro Environment integrated into its Wind River Platforms The integration will be completed and delivered by Apogee Software, a leading developer of high performance programming environments and tools
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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With the Wind River Platform, IBM WebSphere Micro Environment and Apogee Aphelion technologies, customers can configure and port Java applications from device-to-device easily, allowing them to develop and run applications that connect the enterprise to the device.
"Embedded Market Forecasters' 2004 survey of embedded developers found that 56.5% of embedded designs interface internally or externally with enterprise systems", said Dr Jerry Krasner, Vice President and Chief Analyst.
"Wind River has recognised that customers are eager to extend their enterprise applications and information out to numerous devices.
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By partnering with Apogee, and using IBM's leading Java powered runtime environment and device middleware, Wind River continues their commitment to delivering a pre-integrated platform that incorporates industry standards.
With the addition of IBM WebSphere Micro Environment, they expand on their customer base by providing Java technology to compliment their real-time operating systems for enterprise applications".
Apogee's Aphelion, a comprehensive integrated environment for developing and deploying Java-written applications targeted at many types of systems, will be available for customers using Wind River Platforms built on Wind River's VxWorks, the world's leading real-time operating system.
Using Apogee Aphelion that integrates IBM Java technology, Wind River will offer customers a complete Java solution for device software development that can be used to develop and run Java applications targeted at the many types of devices that VxWorks powers, including telematics units, digital picture frames and industrial monitors and controllers.
"Java technology has had great success on desktops and enterprise systems, and with Aphelion, we are able to bring these benefits to the device market", said George Malek, CEO of Apogee.
"By working with IBM and Wind River to deliver Aphelion for Wind River's VxWorks, customers can accelerate the development and deployment of Java applications that connect the enterprise to the device".
"We are pleased that Wind River is working with Apogee to incorporate IBM WebSphere Micro Environment into the Wind River Platform", said Bruce Morse, Vice President Business Development, IBM Pervasive Computing.
"This underscores the increasing importance of open, standards-based embedded middleware in building feature-rich, service oriented devices that can work seamlessly with back-end infrastructures".
"By partnering with Apogee and integrating the IBM WebSphere Micro Environment with the Wind River Platforms, we are able to provide our customers with a robust, standards based solution, enabling our customers to optimise their device software development", said Michel Genard, Vice President of Platform Marketing for Wind River.
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