Since its introduction in 1997 as the first full CORBA Ada solution, the Top Graph’X OrbRiver® Ada ORB has gained a very high reputation amongst the Ada user community particularly in the defense, aerospace, communications and transport sectors with major users such as Eurocontrol, Thales, CNES, Canal+ Technologies, EADS, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and the US Navy.

The product has an unmatched set of features and benefits for CORBA Ada users including extensive real-time support:
A mature product based on a 7 year legacy of Ada development for customers worldwide.
Proven efficiency and reliability.
High performance, including fast processing of Any Types.
CORBA 2.6 compliant.
A pure Ada95 language implementation making it highly portable across multiple platforms.
Available for native and cross-development platforms.
Optimized memory safe behaviors.
Pluggable transports: IIOP, MIOP (reliable MIOP coming soon), Shared Memory.
Support for CORBA Messaging implementation including AMI and QoS control.
Support for CORBA Real-time specification v1.0.
Naming, Event and highly performant Notification Ada95 CORBA Services.

“We are very pleased to be entering into this relationship with PrismTech, a vendor with an outstanding reputation for its CORBA products, as it will allow our OrbRiver Ada products to be marketed to a much wider audience particularly in the USA,” said Jean-Claude Mahieux, VP Sales and Marketing, Top Graph’X.

“After an exhaustive evaluation of possible partners, we are delighted to be working closely with Top Graph’X who consistently achieved the highest marks in our selection process,” said Dr. Shahzad Aslam-Mir, Product Manager, PrismTech. “We are convinced that they have the highest quality, most reliable Ada ORB implementation available in the market backed by an excellent reputation amongst their existing customers.”

“This agreement is part of our continued strategy to bring a well integrated complete suite of CORBA middleware to the safety critical industry of which the Ada community is an extremely important part,” added Keith Steele, CEO, PrismTech. “We are already unique in the embedded and real-time CORBA market-place for the diversity of languages supported and this new alliance allows us to fully meet the varied needs of both our existing and future customer base.”