Bull to reinforce its R&D contribution to ObjectWeb
Bull's R&D teams to bring the consortium their expertise in the
Transaction management middleware
Paris,
February
5, 2004 -
Bull today announces it has extended its R&D contribution to the ObjectWeb consortium, dedicated to Open Source enterprise middleware development.
"As one of the founders of ObjectWeb beginning in 2002, we take pride in the success of the consortium, which has become, within two years, one of the leading international Open Source organisations," said Gérard Roucairol, Bull's Chief Scientist. "Facing the challenge of its own growth, ObjectWeb has set itself ambitious objectives. This is why we decided to extend our contribution to the community, in areas where we have gained international recognition -- application servers, for instance -- but also in key, new areas such as transaction management middleware."
Founded in 2002 by France Telecom, Bull and INRIA, ObjectWeb is an international consortium dedicated to the development of the new generation of Open Source middleware. Leveraging an active community of more than thirty corporate members - including companies and leading research centres such as INRIA, Bull, France Telecom, Thales, NEC Soft, Red Hat and SuSE. ObjectWeb's objective is to give companies access to software tools for building critical distributed applications (e-business, EAI, calculation grids, enterprise messaging, etc.) that will combine quality, robustness and an optimised price/performance ratio. In 2003, the consortium experienced outstanding development in hosting twice as many projects as the year before and having Red Hat, SuSE et Mandrake -- three major distributions -- joining. During the same year, ObjectWeb got closer to the Apache and Eclipse communities.
Bull's labs are a major contributor to ObjectWeb with key projects such as JOnAS (Java Open Application Server), a Java-based application server including J2EE specifications. To boost solutions developed by the consortium, Bull R&D teams in France and in the US will then bring their expertise to the development of ObjectWeb's transaction tools, including mainly JOTM, a distributed transaction manager, and JORAM, a message-oriented middleware.
"Transaction management is a number one area for ObjectWeb, targeting large enterprise environments," said Christophe Ney, head of the Executive Committee of ObjectWeb. "Bull's extended contribution will greatly help us in being even more proactive in fulfilling companies' expectations in Open Source transaction management solutions allying flexibility of the Open Source environment to the robustness of industry-class solutions."
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