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Testimonials for the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum

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.

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."