sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash SunSoft Announces Distributed Object Interoperability With Microsoft Windows SunFLASH Vol 61 #12 January 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61.12 SunSoft: Distributed Object Interoperability With Microsoft Windows SunSoft announced a development agreement with IONA Technologies to deliver distributed object interoperability across SunSoft's Solaris Distributed Object Environment and Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Windows NT-based systems. The agreement signifies the first interoperability between two OMG CORBA-conformant Object Request Broker (ORB) implementations ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SunSoft made the following announcement January 11, 1994, at the OBJECT World Tradeshow in Boston, regarding their new agreement with IONA Technologies. SMCC supports this agreement to deliver distributed object interoperability across the Solaris(R) and Microsoft(R) Windows and Windows NT-based systems. For any SMCC-related questions, contact Lil Mohan, SMCC Marketing, at (415) 336-5092. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUNSOFT ANNOUNCES DISTRIBUTED OBJECT INTEROPERABILITY WITH MICROSOFT WINDOWS Agreement With IONA Technologies Provides First Standards-Based Solution For Distributed Object Application Development ObjectWorld, Boston, Mass., January 11, 1994 -- SunSoft, the system software subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced that it has signed a development agreement with IONA Technologies of Dublin, Ireland, to deliver distributed object interoperability across SunSoft's Solaris(r) Distributed Object Environment and Microsoft(r) Windows and Microsoft Windows NT-based systems. The agreement signifies the first interoperability between two OMG CORBA-conformant Object Request Broker (ORB) implementations and gives users a standards-based solution for distributed object application development. Project DOE developers will now be able to access objects on Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Windows NT systems running IONA's Orbix product. Similarly, developers creating object-oriented applications for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Windows NT systems will be able to access objects created on Solaris-based systems with Project DOE. Next-generation applications can be created out of components residing on a combination of Solaris-based and Microsoft Windows systems on the network. The two companies are demonstrating distributed object interoperability between the market-leading 32-bit UNIX (r) environment and the industry's volume PC platform in the SunSoft booth at the ObjectWorld show here this week. "Today's announcement opens up tremendous opportunities in the world of distributed objects, breaking down the boundaries that previously existed between objects on PC-based systems with Microsoft Windows and those on enterprise systems such as Solaris," said Dr. Guy L. (Bud) Tribble, vice president of object products at SunSoft, Inc. "Developers will now be able to build applications out of `snap-together' components on various systems across the network." SunSoft's Project DOE is the leading implementation of the OMG(tm) CORBA (tm) (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) and COSS (Common Object Services Specification) standards. It targets the enterprise-wide computing market and exploits the major advances in Solaris, including multithreading, multiprocessing, security and sophisticated network administration capabilities. IONA's Orbix is also a full implementation of OMG's CORBA standard, and is available for the Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Microsoft Windows NT platforms. "I'm very pleased to see this collaboration between two of OMG's members, especially when it speaks so directly to the coalescence of interoperability through object technology," said Chris Stone, president of OMG. "This agreement between SunSoft and IONA will help bring distributed object computing to the desktop, a very desirable goal." "SunSoft and IONA are committed to distributed object technology as a paradigm for building the applications of the future," said Chris Horn, chairman and chief architect at IONA Technologies. "This commitment is reflected in Project DOE at SunSoft and IONA's Orbix product family. We are working together to ensure compatibility and interoperability between Orbix and the Solaris DOE environment." Under the terms of the agreement, SunSoft will take a minority equity share in IONA, and IONA will remain an independent corporation. The two companies have agreed to make their respective interoperable products available by the second half of 1994. IONA technologies, based in Dublin, Ireland, was formed in March 1991 by Chris Horn, Annrai O'Toole and Sean Baker. The three were lecturers and researchers at Trinity College Dublin and throughout the eighties pioneered european research into distributed systems. The company is a leading developer of distributed object request broker technology based on OMG's CORBA standard. SunSoft, headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., the exclusive computer supplier to the World Cup USA 1994. The company has offices in North America, Europe and Asia. SunSoft is a leading supplier of 32-bit system software solutions for SPARC and Intel 80386/486-based computers. The products are licensed by SunSoft and distributed through major computer manufacturers worldwide. ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. 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