SUNNYVALE, CA—March 17, 2009—Real-Time Innovations (RTI), The Real-Time Middleware Experts, announced today that RTI Data Distribution Service will now be without cost for most Independent Research and Development (IR&D), Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and university projects. This makes DDS technology accessible to many projects that cannot acquire commercial software or accept the effort and risk inherent in using immature or unsupported open-source options.
Dr. Stan Schneider, RTI's CEO commented, "RTI's user-friendly, top-performing DDS implementation is now available without cost or paperwork. Further, it comes with a free online support system, and for a small fee, with the industry's best support. RTI consistently achieves 98 percent customer satisfaction. This announcement expands that experience to many more projects."
In addition to access to the most mature DDS implementation, RTI's no-cost licenses give developers the support benefits of a widely used commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) product. This support improves productivity, accelerates implementation and minimizes risk.
Developers interested in DDS who do not qualify for RTI's no-cost licenses can take advantage of a new 30-day trial download of RTI Data Distribution Service, the accompanying tutorial, RTI's public knowledge base and DDS Workshops.
"Hundreds of projects already use DDS to build distributed real-time applications," commented Schneider. "Many more could benefit from the power of DDS, but have not had the time or money to invest in learning the technology. With these new free and low-cost educational resources, RTI is making DDS much easier to obtain and learn."
RTI will host a webinar on March 31 to introduce the benefits of DDS and RTI's new no-cost licenses. Interested editors, analysts, system architects and software developers can register at http://www.rti.com/events.
Standardized by the Object Management Group (OMG), DDS defines the mechanisms, programming interfaces and protocols that distributed applications use to communicate with each other. DDS was designed specifically to meet the performance and QoS requirements of real-time and embedded systems. As a result, it has been widely adopted for time-critical and mission-critical applications including tactical defense systems; aerospace; railroad and roadway traffic management; industrial control; Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA); financial market data distribution; and automated trading.
Use of DDS can dramatically reduce the software lifecycle costs and risk associated with architecting systems that will be deployed, maintained and upgraded during the course of many years.
RTI Data Distribution Service is the most mature, easy to use, widely adopted, high performing, scalable, interoperable and well-supported DDS solution. Commercially available for more than 12 years, the core technology in RTI Data Distribution Service powers hundreds of unique commercial designs and hundreds of independent research projects. More than 100,000 individual copies have been licensed to date.
No-cost research licenses to RTI Data Distribution Service are available for the Windows and Linux platforms. Application programming interfaces support C, C++, Java and .NET (C# and C++/CLI).
Research licenses are available for many uses, including:
The software is immediately downloadable from RTI's website at http://www.rti.com/downloads/dds.html.
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) provides high-performance infrastructure solutions for the development and integration of distributed real-time applications. RTI's data distribution, messaging, caching and Complex Event Processing (CEP) capabilities deliver dramatic improvements in latency, throughput and scalability while slashing cost of ownership. A broad range of industries have leveraged the company's software and design expertise, including defense, intelligence, simulation, industrial control, power generation, transportation, finance, medical and communications. Founded in 1991, RTI is privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. For more information, please visit www.rti.com.
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