PrismTech signs up Alcatel as partner for its “Total CORBA Solution”
OpenFusion is Alcatel’s solution-of-choice for its CORBA-based products
Boston, MA, USA – PrismTech, a leading vendor of standards-based middleware, today announced that Alcatel has signed a major 3-year corporate contract for its OpenFusion middleware.
Alcatel’s decision to select PrismTech was reached after an extensive business-wide evaluation of all the major CORBA products and vendors in the marketplace. Alcatel also collaborated actively with PrismTech in the definition and development of OpenFusion TCS, to ensure all its technical and business requirements are met. The resulting solution provides a complete and cost-effective CORBA solution that can be tailored to specific customer needs. OpenFusion adds the strength of active open source communities to the industrial quality and advanced product technology of PrismTech, and thus provides the best assurance of a perennial, high-quality and stable solution.
OpenFusion offers a full CORBA environment through the integration and professional packaging of the best open source C++ ORB (TAO) and JavaTM ORB (JacORB) together with PrismTech’s market-leading CORBA Services. OpenFusion is the response to a growing market demand for CORBA solutions at a dramatically lower cost, but with no technical compromise, and a long-term commitment to comply with CORBA standards.
For telecom equipment vendors like Alcatel, strict compliance to the standards is key for seamless end-to-end solutions encompassing heterogeneous equipment. OpenFusion provides coverage of all telecom requirements in terms of real-time and general purpose CORBA software, for application domains such as network management platform, network element control or UMTS infrastructures.
“A corporate choice was necessary for a technology like CORBA in order to streamline development, favor re-use of components and lower overall development and maintenance costs” said Michel Ruffin, Manager Software Coordination, Alcatel, and Chairman of the OMGTM Telecom Task Force who added "We were looking for a partner who was ready to take into account our specific needs. Thanks to the partnership with PrismTech, we are now ensured of the technical alignment of OpenFusion TCS to these industry specific requirements”.