PrismTech, a leading provider of distributed and wireless software infrastructure, announces its partnership with Thales Nederland B.V. (Thales) to market Thales' SPLICE-DDS implementation of the new OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS) for Real-time Systems. PrismTech will commercially market the SPLICE-DDS product world-wide, as well as offering customer support.

Over the past 10 years, Thales has successfully applied a pure data-centric architecture called SPLICE in its naval Combat Management Systems (CMS). This actively deployed architecture provides the essential non-functional properties demanded by these mission-critical environments such as (real-time) performance, scalability, fault-tolerance and evolve-ability.  It allows information stemming from multiple sensors to be distributed in a reliable and timely manner to multiple software components that will integrate and process this information in order to either present it to human operators or use it to control distributed actuators on-time and in a safe manner.

Thales has contributed its extensive knowledge and experience in data-centric architectures towards the Object Management Group's (OMGs) recently ratified DDS specification.  The new specification is applicable to many real-time applications that have a requirement to model some of their communication patterns as a pure data-centric exchange, where applications publish data which is then available to remote applications that have subscribed to it.  DDS is applicable to many real-time applications areas such as C4I, industrial automation, distributed control and simulation, telecom equipment control, sensor networks, and network management. Indeed any application requiring (selective) information dissemination is a candidate for a data-driven architecture.

Thales' most recent development, SPLICE-DDS, supports high-performance and real-time access to selectively replicated information in the data flow oriented parts of mission-critical and real-time distributed systems.  As such, the service adds the information centric paradigm of offering 'the right information to the right place at the right time' to the already available service centric features of traditional component/service architectures like CORBA-CCM and Jini/OpenWings.

"We are very pleased to have PrismTech marketing SPLICE-DDS, " said Hans van 't Hag, Product Manager Middleware, Thales Nederland. "Their expertise in delivering real-time and embedded CORBA solutions particularly to the defense and aerospace sectors will ensure a swift take-up of the product by the marketplace."

"We are very honored that Thales has chosen PrismTech to commercially market SPLICE-DDS," added Keith Steele, PrismTech CEO. "The DDS new OMG specification is meeting strong Industry interest and the many technical advantages of SPLICE-DDS in areas such as network performance and fault-tolerance will make it very attractive proposition for the real-time and embedded systems markets."

About PrismTech:
Founded in 1992, with offices in the USA and Europe, PrismTech is a privately held software products company. PrismTech serves international Fortune 500 customers in the telecommunications, data communications, defence and aerospace sectors.  PrismTech is an acknowledged leader in distributed and wireless software infrastructure, with solutions ranging from wide-scale integration to embedded real-time systems, supporting applications from operations support systems (OSS) through to software defined radio (SDR).  For additional information about PrismTech, visit the web site at www.prismtechnologies.com.

About Thales:
Thales Nederland is a naval centre of excellence for radar and combat management in the Thales Group, an international electronics and systems group, serving defence, aerospace and security markets. The group employs 62,000 people worldwide and generated revenues of 10.6 billion euro in 2003.