HERNDON, VA – September 23, 2013 – Objective Interface Systems, Inc. (OIS), the world’s leading provider of high-performance, real-time and embedded communications middleware solutions, today announced that its ORBexpress® communications middleware now supports Green Hills Software INTEGRITY® 11 real-time operating system (RTOS).

The INTEGRITY 11 RTOS is integrated with version 6 of the Green Hills Software’s MULTI® IDE and contains significant enhancements including a new, highly optimized communications mechanism called GIPC (Green Hills IPC), as well as a new resource manager. The INTEGRITY 11 stack also includes support for additional RFCs and capabilities. The combination of INTEGRITY 11 with MULTI 6 gives developers faster build times, reduction in code size and speed improvements.

ORBexpress provides a high-performance communications framework for INTEGRITY 11, enabling real-time and embedded systems to communicate seamlessly with ultra-low latency. Developers using ORBexpress can easily and seamlessly take advantage of new INTEGRITY 11 features such as the GIPC, new resource management, reduction in code size and speed improvements.

ORBexpress is trusted and proven to work fast and seamlessly across any environment. Programs all over the world use the combination of INTEGRITY and ORBexpress to ensure that their high performance, real-time embedded systems work seamlessly and securely.

“We are pleased to continue supporting Green Hills as it continues to provide new, cutting-edge capabilities to the embedded software industry,” said Charles Rush, SVP at OIS. “ORBexpress is designed specifically for systems that need high, real-time performance while ensuring that their systems remain safe and secure. This makes it an ideal middleware for the INTEGRITY 11 RTOS that maximizes system performance while providing industry-leading security and safety functionality.”

"Many mission critical embedded systems depend on the combination of OIS's ORBexpress and Green Hills' INTEGRITY. These key systems depend on the robustness delivered by the ORBexpress inter-processor and inter-system communications infrastructure,” said David Kleidermacher, chief technology officer, Green Hills Software. “INTEGRITY  combined with ORBexpress offers embedded developers a very reliable, high-performance solution for delivering mission critical systems where failure is not an option.”

About Green Hills Software
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is the largest independent vendor of embedded development solutions. Green Hills Software's open architecture integrated development solutions address deeply embedded, safety/security and high-reliability applications for the military/avionics, medical, industrial, automotive, networking, consumer and other markets that demand industry-certified solutions. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at www.ghs.com.

About OIS
OIS provides high performance technologies for developing secure communications systems and deploying widespread secure networks. OIS products empower users by providing unique data, network and cloud based access capabilities. OIS products are used in complex and demanding environments such as aerospace, defense, automotive, telecommunication, banking, robotics, industrial automation and other mission critical systems.

About ORBexpress
ORBexpress is an extremely fast, small-footprint framework for inter-process communication in real-time and embedded systems. Based on the open standard Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), the ORBexpress family of ORBs with language mappings for C++, Ada, Java and VHDL are available on the widest combination of microprocessors, operating systems, and compilers in the industry. For more information and product evaluations, visit www.ois.com.

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