PrismTech Named Cool Vendor by Leading Analyst Firm

Vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor report” are innovative, impactful and intriguing

Boston, MA, USA – 1 April, 2008 — PrismTech™, a leader in high-performance middleware and development tools, has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the “Cool Vendors in Platform and Integration Middleware, 2008” report by Gartner, Inc.

According to the report, “innovation in platform and integration middleware continues at an unstoppable pace.” Additionally, “the need to support ultra-high-end requirements for transaction processing, messaging and other needs continues to be a major driver for innovation in this market.”

The Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard supports fast and guaranteed-delivery, publish-and-subscribe messaging in enterprise applications, as well as in extremely severe environments where communication bandwidth is limited, connectivity is intermittent and noisy, and applications run on embedded devices with low-processing and storage capacity.

“We believe this shows exceptional recognition for PrismTech and reinforces OpenSplice DDS’ position as the premier solution for real-time, highly distributed systems,” said Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D., OpenSplice DDS product marketing manager, PrismTech. “Through our technology, solution, vision, leadership and highly effective go-to-market execution, we have clearly demonstrated that we are indeed offering a ‘cool’ middleware solution.”

PrismTech has numerous OpenSplice DDS customers across a variety of application domains.

OpenSplice DDS represents the industry’s most standards compliant and complete DDS implementation. With its low-latency, real-time, and massive scalability capabilities, OpenSplice DDS is the highest performing object-oriented publish/subscribe middleware available. It enables business- and mission-critical application integration through data distribution and event-driven processing. It ensures that the right data gets to the right place at the right time—all the time.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

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