St. Louis Mo. July 9th 2007: OCI announced today that it has released Version 1 of its open source CORBA® product, written entirely in Perl and known as opalORB. The product has been developed to support the users of large scale CORBA® systems, who need the kind of capabilities offered by Perl. Perl is one of the most widely used cross-platform scripting languages and is favored by systems administrators. Perl offers the means to easily and quickly develop scripts to interact with their diverse application base.
Dr Moshiri the CEO of OCI commented that for the last 8 years OCI had been extending its range of open source middleware solutions. “OpalORB continues that OCI commitment to providing cost effective mission critical infrastructure to our client base.”
About opalORB
The opalORB is an OMG CORBA 2.6 implementation written completely in Perl. Perl is a dynamic and portable language, which means the opalORB will run on any platform that supports Perl and TCP/IP sockets. The opalORB implements both the client and the server (POA) sides of the CORBA model.
The implementation follows the intent of the OMG’s “CORBA/e Micro Profile” recommended subset of the more usual ORB functionality. This ensures it is simple, small and easy to use. Additionally through its support of the CORBA::Any data type opalORB is able to interact with most other ORB services.
OpalORB implements the OMG specification IIOP™ and is therefore able to interoperate with other ORBs, even when written in other languages.
Initial Service Offerings
OCI will provide technical consulting support, software engineering services and bug fixes for opalORB under the same terms as its other distributions of open source products. The opalORB software, and patches, will be freely downloadable. New versions of this commercially supported open source CORBA implementation will be made available at reasonable intervals so that development organizations can lock into a predictable release and support model.
About Object Computing Inc.,
Object Computing Inc. (OCI) is a privately held software engineering company. OCI was founded in 1993 with a commitment to object oriented technology. Today OCI provides software systems consulting, product development, and educational services to progressive corporations across the United States in the Aerospace, Finance, Healthcare and Telecommunication market segments. The St. Louis based OCI Education Center has one of the most extensive object technology and Java training curricula in the Mid West. OCI has a significant presence in Phoenix as well as St. Louis, where its corporate headquarters are located. OCI is a Sun Authorized Java Center and member of the OMG. For more information see our web site http://www.ociweb.com.
Contact: OCI - Malcolm Spence Director of Business Development
Additional Information on opalORB may be obtained at http://www.ociweb.com/
Trademark notice: CORBA and IIOP are registered trademarks of the Object Management Group.
