Date: 30 January 2004

Source: Dedicated Sytems Magazine

Real Time INNOVATIONS and LOCSOFT sign a UK distribution agreement

PARIS, France and Glasgow, UK – January 30, 2004 – Real Time Innovations and LocSoft sign a UK distribution agreement covering the sales and support of RTI products.

Many mission-critical applications have Real Time data-distribution requirements that are being met by RTI´s NDDS®. This agreement will permit UK-based project teams to have access to leading-edge, standards-based middleware technology to rapidly integrate and deploy solutions at a fraction of the cost of internally developed code.

NDDS is a rich and highly efficient implementation of Real Time publish-subscribe networking middleware. It is designed for use in the development of applications having one-to-many, many-to-many, or many-to-one peer-to-peer communications requirements. Regardless of the level of subsystem complexity, NDDS provides a simple, straightforward and fully documented API to the application developer. The deployed applications, whether in defence, aerospace, transportation, simulation, or other markets, function equally well across multiple hardware platforms and operating systems, including Linux®, VxWorks®, LynxOS®, Windows® and Solaris™.

The publish-subscribe model is widely accepted and has recently been adopted by the OMG (www.omg.org) as the basis for the industry´s first standard for Real Time data distribution. The new standard is called DDS (Data Distribution Service). RTI´s next release, NDDS 4.0, is expected to be the first commercially available implementation of DDS. Its powerful tools for understanding and debugging network problems will provide unique capabilities to the project engineer and system integrator. Already specified in many defence procurements worldwide, DDS is an important new standard easing the development of Real Time data-centric distributed applications.

"LocSoft have a fine reputation in the UK for their `lifelong support policy´ and for the quality of their services,” says Mike Rogosin, General Manager of Real Time Innovations EMEA. “RTI is known as a supplier of best-in-class embedded products. This agreement will clearly benefit UK development teams and increase the options open to their managers.”

LocSoft will market NDDS and their Glasgow-based engineering staff will assure specialised local support throughout the product life-cycle.

1) OMG — Object Management Group, known for the CORBA and UML standards.

About RTI

RTI (Real Time Innovations, www.rti.com) provides software tools, middleware, and professional services for distributed Real Time systems and embedded applications. For over 10 years, with over 10,000 seats in use, the ScopeTools product line has been helping embedded system developers produce higher quality, more reliable solutions. The NDDS middleware and tools provide seamless communications and comprehensive tools for distributed, Real Time system builders.

About LocSoft

LocSoft offer a total hardware/software solution for custom product needs – these include hardware design thru-BIOS integration and board bring-up support. In addition, the company is a provider of considerable system software services and has in-depth experience with the most common embedded and Real Time operating systems on the market today. LocSoft systems can be found in application areas including telephony, data and telecommunications, automation, instrumentation and process control.