Iona Technology Ltd of Dublin, Eire is integrating its Orbix object request broker with Stratus Computer Inc’s Isis Distributed Systems’ database messaging system and infrastructure software to make the broker more robust for users of mission-critical applications in markets such as finance and telecommunications. Orbix/Isis will be released at Object World in San Francisco in July, and thereafter Orbix proper will be targeted primarily at applications developers, and users that aren’t so reliant on high-availability software. The aim is also to layer Orbix on top of Isis to make the software easier to use – at the moment, you need to be a rocket scientist to be able to do so.
