IONA Technologies opens PacRim HQ in Perth, Western Australia Perth, Western Australia, May 8th, 1996: IONA Technologies, the leading developer of CORBA-compliant solutions, today announced the opening of its Pacific Rim headquarters. Located in Perth, Western Australia and initially staffed by a combination of six technical and sales personnel, its presence will provide even faster technical support and product advice to IONA's customer base throughout Australia and the Pacific Rim. IONA's Orbix is the market leading implementation of the Object Management Group's Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). With Orbix, corporations can build distributed, object-oriented applications which interoperate across 20 different operating systems. The move to Perth is also in line with IONA's push to provide the best support for its customers around the world. With offices in Boston., MA., Dublin, Ireland and Perth, IONA can now switch its communications network to provide round-the-clock technical support for Orbix customers. "IONA is renowned for top quality service and support. As our customer base expands we want to be able to maintain our own rigorous standards. Having a technical presence at three locations around the world makes it easy to provide frontline support 24 hours a day," said Dr. Chris Horn, CEO at IONA Technologies. The Australian office will be headed up by Dr David Glance who has over ten years experience in systems development, six of these in distributed object-oriented systems in a commercial setting. "The Pacific Rim represents an exciting new market for us. We already have distributors and resellers in Japan, and Australia. Establishing a presence in Perth will enable us to provide closer support for these partners as well as for our growing number of blue chip customers in the region," Dr Glance. Dr Glance will also work to form new partnerships throughout the Pacific Rim. In addition to Toyo Information Sytems in Japan and Object Design in Australia IONA is keen to sign up resellers and distributors primarily in Taiwan, Korea, Malaisa, Hong Kong and New Zealand. Discussions are already at an advanced stage with potential partners in many of these locations. IONA Technologies Ltd., was formed in 1991 and launched its first product, Orbix in June 1993. Orbix is an implementation of the Object Management Group's Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) specification. This cutting edge technology offers a standard way for corporate developers to develop distributed, client/server software applications. According to the Gartner Group, Orbix accounts for the largest installed base of any object request broker. IONA is partly owned by Sun Microsystems subsidiary, SunSoft, Inc. Orbix currently runs on 20 operating systems from a single code base. Platforms include: Windows 3.1x, Windows NT, Windows 95, OS/2, Macintosh System 7.5, twelve different UNIX systems, OpenVMS AXP, MVS and significant real-time operating systems. Orbix for Windows includes powerful integration allowing OLE-enabled applications to transparently invoke remote and local CORBA objects. OrbixWeb is a full implementation of the CORBA specification in the Java language. The combination of Orbix and Java enables the creation of downloadable applets which are capable of accessing multiple, shared backend CORBA services located across intranets and the Internet. Orbix is used by thousands of developers world-wide in large and small corporations. Reviewers, Editors and other industry-knowledgeable judges at UNIX Review magazine picked Orbix as one of the outstanding products of 1995 in the December issue of the magazine. Orbix is a registered trademark of IONA Technologies Ltd. OrbixTalk is a registered trademark of IONA Technologies Ltd. OrbixWeb is a registered trademark of IONA Technologies Ltd All other products or service names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.
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