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About the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum |
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Today's marketplace for Real-time and Embedded Systems is growing at an exponential rate. Implementors of this technology face the same challenges: the need for fast, predictable, and bounded response to events such as interrupts and messages, and the ability to manage system resources to meet processing deadlines. However, few standards exist to address this marketplace and those that do fall short. This Forum intends to plug the gap, to bring together system developers and users, to build upon existing standards where they exist, working with existing groups within the industry, evolve product standards that address market requirements, and develop tests and certification programs that deliver products meeting these requirements. Ultimately the vision of the Forum is to grow the marketplace through the development of standardized systems based on real product solutions. The Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum has been formed to provide a neutral venue for vendors, buyers, users and other industry standards groups to meet and share information. In addition it will complement existing standards by packaging them into coherent sets, and developing test suites and a certification program to assure conformance. Industry sectors that will benefit from the Forum include aerospace/defense, telecommunications, manufacturing, automotive and medical/scientific research. Leveraging the depth and breadth of The Open Group's expertise in enterprise integration, this Forum brings together leading vendors of Real-time and Embedded solutions and products with corporate and government organizations who are customers for these technologies. Working collectively, the Forum members will tackle the key issues that will bring about multi-vendor choice and establish an open market. The scope of the forum includes operating system APIs, operating system profile product standards, quality of service and middleware issues such as Real-time Java and Real-time CORBA. The Forum works with appropriate industry groups as an impartial standards integrator to review existing specifications and requirements in order to avoid duplication and redundancy of effort. Liaisons have been established with the OMG, the SAE, IEEE/PASC, the UDI Project, and NCITS R1.
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Why you should join the Forum? Lineo Inc. "On behalf of Lineo, I welcome the formation of The Open Group's Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum," said Tim Bird, Lineo Inc.'s Chief Technology Officer. "The Open Group has earned a reputation for fostering cooperation among vendors and encouraging the development of high quality software which meets the needs of customers in the IT industry. Lineo looks forward to working within this forum to participate in the standardization of these exciting technology areas with Linux." MontaVista Software Inc. "MontaVista Software, as a co-founder of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum, supports The Open Group as an objective venue for key standardization efforts," said Kevin Morgan, MontaVista Software VP of Engineering. "MontaVista, our customers, and our technology partners can use this forum to address the challenges faced in real-time and embedded development." NASA SEWP, Goddard Space Flight Center "The NASA Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement (SEWP), located at NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center, has a long history of working with and utilizing The Open Group to promote and ensure the availability of open standards based computer systems to the NASA community" said Joanne Woytek, Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement Manager at NASA. "With NASA's requirements to support mission critical real-time applications, NASA SEWP is looking forward to participating with The Open Group's newly formed Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum to further promote existing real-time standards and assist in defining the future directions of those standards." Silicon Graphics, Inc. "Joining The Open Group's Real-Time and Embedded Systems Forum reinforces SGI's track record of real-time support for our IRIX operating system," said Gabriel Broner, vice president, Engineering Strategic Software Organization, SGI. "We look forward to working with the forum and sharing our expertise in the areas of deterministic compute and I/O capability for the most demanding real-time applications." Sun Microsystems, Inc. "As a long time advocate of open standards, Sun is very happy to join the Real-time and Embedded System Forum," said Jackie Bao, Sr Product Manager in Solaris Product Marketing. "Our Solaris operating environment offers powerful RT capabilities for all supported platforms. We will strive to further advance the real-time capabilities on Solaris and Java(tm), and assist in promoting existing standards as well as defining new standards." The US Department of Defense Open Systems - Joint Task Force "The DoD Open Systems Joint Task Force has signed on as a founding member of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum because it provides an objective venue for users, technology providers, and other standards groups to work together to address the real issues that are being faced those implementing real-time solutions today. We welcome this opportunity to work with the industry to establish certification programs suitable for real world solutions." TimeSys, Inc. "TimeSys applauds the efforts of the Open Group in creating and fostering the real-time and embedded systems forum." says Raj Rajkumar, Chairman of TimeSys. "TimeSys is happy to participate in the forum and contribute to an increasingly important domain. Standardization of real-time features and Quality of Service (QoS) support will further extend and enlarge the scope of these systems. TimeSys expects to enrich these activities."VenturCom, Inc. "We are proud to be a member of The Open Group. VenturCom is recognized as the premiere company with respect to offering licensing, training and extension technologies for Windows-based real-time systems. We see The Open Group as a key resource in identifying emerging market trends," said Roy Kok, VenturCom's Vice President of Marketing. "VenturCom has developed a significant strategic consulting initiative which can be applied to a variety of vertical applications which The Open Group may identify for us." We are actively seeking membership by all interested parties within the IT industry. A set of slides giving an overview of the Forum is available. Please contact our Team for a membership prospectus by selecting this link.
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