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ProSyst, a Leader in OSGi Middleware and Services, joins Eclipse Foundation

Cologne, March 1, 2007 - ProSyst Software GmbH » www.prosyst.com announced today that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-in Provider member. The Eclipse Foundation is an open source community committed to the implementation of an extensible development platform for building software applications.

ProSyst is a Java pioneer and joined the OSGi Alliance as one of its first members in 1999. Since then the company is entirely focussed on that technology and most actively involved in helping to create the OSGi specifications R1 - R4. Dr. Susan Schwarze from ProSyst is a board member of the OSGi Alliance and VP Marketing. Kai Hackbarth from ProSyst is the Requirements Chair for the OSGi Alliance, the interim Chair of the Vehicle Expert Group and the Chair of the End-to-End / 100% solution committee.

ProSyst offers products and services for all vertical markets that use OSGi technology, such as Mobile Devices, Smart Home, Automotive, Enterprise and industrial applications. Its "mBedded Server" is a high performance, low footprint OSGi R4 implementation with many interesting add-ons. ProSysts "mPower Remote Manager" is a highly scalable Remote Management System geared to manage OSGi frameworks of any kind. In addition, ProSyst offers an interesting optimisation tool for embedded Java, the "JProfiler", that also comes as an Eclipse plug-in.

ProSyst now expands its offerings to deliver the best Java-related services for Eclipse based projects. Those services range from inhouse development, support, training to high end technical consulting.

"We are delighted to be joining the Eclipse Foundation, and to be able to support this strategic organisation with our OSGi and embedded Java know how. We intend to focus on driving an unifying architectural approach for Rich Client Platform (RCP/eRCP) deployment across both embedded and enterprise sectors" said Dr. Dimitar Valtchev, CTO of ProSyst. "With our experience in project integration in several key vertical markets, we are well positioned to leverage this convergence and to support customers that are looking at those technologies for their projects.

The Eclipse platform has played an important role for making OSGi a mature technology but can now also significantly benefit from the recent technology advances in the OSGi space such as enterprise applications, end-to-end solutions, remote management, and mobile applications. ProSyst is one of the main driving forces behind this development and will be very happy to contribute further for a fruitful cooperation between Eclipse and OSGi.

Extending the Eclipse tooling in the embedded area is another priority of Eclipse related ProSyst work. Our experience especially in the profiling of embedded code will enrich the Eclipse community with efficient tools for tuning mobile, telematics, and residential Java applications."

"Our goal at the Eclipse Foundation has been to foster an open source community that responds to the needs of commercial vendors and serves as a platform for innovation," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "This endorsement of Eclipse by ProSyst will propagate Eclipse awareness and use in the wider development community, and ensures that RCP and OSGi grow in importance as a solution for enterprise and embedded applications.

ProSysts expertise, extending from custom embedded Java development, through OSGi services and eRCP development, deployment and remote management, to J2EE backend integration and Eclipse plug-in dev tool development, makes them an ideal partner to help exploit the benefits of the Eclipse platform."

About the Eclipse Foundation

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the software development lifecycle, including support for modelling, language development environments for Java, C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded development. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member-supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at » www.eclipse.org

About ProSyst

ProSyst offers client and server side OSGi service platforms as well as the development of generic and custom applications. Manufacturers and service providers use the OSGi-based and certified technology from ProSyst to dynamically extend, manage and secure platforms and to enable the creation of applications and functions as simple, interoperable, sharable components.

ProSyst offers products and services for all vertical markets that use OSGi technology, such as Mobile Devices, Smart Home, Automotive, Enterprise and industrial applications.

ProSyst customers include Alpine, BMW, Bosch, Bombardier, CA, Cisco, Epson, GM, HP, ICW, Motorola, Miele, Nokia, Philips, SAP, Siemens, Sprint Nextel, Telefónica, Telstra and Thales Alenia Space, and many more.

The company was founded in 1997. Headquartered in Cologne, Germany ProSyst operates additional offices in Sofia, Bulgaria and Seoul, Korea. ProSyst is a privately held company and employs 120+ Java/OSGi engineers.