OCI announces a new release of The ACE ORB (TAO)

ST. LOUIS - June 12, 2013 - PRLog -- OCI today reached a new milestone in its long lineage of stable TAO (The ACE ORB) releases (http://www.theaceorb.com). This new release of TAO is Version 2.2a and is the ninth since version 1.0a was released in 1999. This represents a major feature upgrade opportunity for existing TAO users and makes it a simpler task for those wishing to migrate from proprietary implementations. A new TAO 2.2a Developer's Guide, written by OCI engineers, is also available in an e-book format (http://www.theaceorb.com/purchase/index.html), with all the latest, cross-referenced and indexed information on the product.  

For the last eight months an OCI team has been engaged to add capabilities to TAO such that a client could dramatically scale the size of their CORBA implementation. By switching to an open source ORB, from a proprietary product, the client was able to add hundreds of new servers with no additional license fees.  Many new features are implemented in an automated manner such that they are hidden from the user. This includes fault tolerant behaviors, load balancing, management of thread pooling, retries etc. Even the new version 3.3 of JacORB, a companion Java ORB to TAO, benefits by being able to take advantage of TAO's now, fault-tolerant Implementation Repository, which can register and launch JacORB servers.

Dr. Moshiri Founder of OCI remarked that "OCI's 14 years of commercial support for TAO, a truly open source CORBA product, has few parallels. No other complex middleware comes close to our implementations of the Object Management Group's (OMG) specifications in terms of high quality and lowest cost of ownership."

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