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Since I’m a fan of the DDS (Data Distribution Service) inter-process communication infrastructure for distributed systems, I try to keep up with developments in the DDS space. Via an Angelo Corsaro slideshare presentation, I discovered two relatively new commercial vendors of the high performance, low latency, OMG! messaging standard: Twin Oaks Computing and Gallium Visual Systems. I don’t know how long the newcomers have been pitching their DDS implementations or how mature their products are, but I’ll be learning more about them in the weeks to come.

Last week, the four DDS vendors got together at the OMG DDS meeting in CA and they collaboratively executed 9 distributed system test scenarios to highlight the interoperability of the vendors’ products. The Angelo Corsaro slide snippets below show the conceptual context and the goals of the event.

The VP of marketing at RTI, Dave Barnett, published a short video showing that the demo was a success: DDS Interoperability Demo. Since I’m a distributed, real-time software developer geek, this stuff makes me giddy with enthusiasm. Sad, no?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn56V0NLW1E