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From: "Armin Fourier" 
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Subject: Press Release / ProSyst supports Open Service Gateway Initiative
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:58:01 +0100
Organization: HFN


ProSyst supports Open Service Gateway Initiative


An open architecture for linking clients to Internet services -
Supplementing and extending existing standards 


Cologne, October 26, 1999 - ProSyst Software GmbH, a producer of leading 
Java application and JINI server technology, has joined the Open Service 
Gateway Initiative (OSGI), an industry group comprising prominent IT and 
telecommunications companies that is working to define an open 
architecture for developing, deploying and managing Internet services 
for differing client systems, like JINI-based devices. A gateway that 
has been implemented under OSGI standards and on the basis of Java 
technology will enable service providers to link external and internal 
networks with Internet services and integrate a variety of end-user 
devices - ranging from consumer to business clients. This means that the 
Open Service Gateway platform will also be able to provide private 
households without a personal computer, for example, with access to 
existing or future Internet services, such as grocery delivery services, 
emergency medical services or home surveillance. The OSGI specifications
will be designed to supplement and/or extend existing standards, such as 
Bluetooth or JINI, and will define an application framework and resource 
management concept, APIs for thin and fat WAN clients, device APIs for 
local area networks, security and integrity APIs, as well as data 
management APIs for administering database integration. In connection 
with its involvement in the OSGI, ProSyst will primarily contribute 
know-how in the field of modern JINI server technology.


The members of the OSGI, including such players as Alcatel, Cable & 
Wireless, Ericsson, IBM, Lucent, Motorola, Nokia, Oracle, Philips, 
Siemens, Sony and Sun, view distribution of Internet services to 
personal and business customers as representing a major future market 
for service providers. In jointly defining the Open Service Gateway, 
they want to create a standardized software environment early on. The 
first draft of the OSGI specifications is expected early next year. 
Further information about the OSGI is available on the Internet at 
www.osgi.org.


Contact:                                                 Press contact:

ProSyst Software GmbH                         HFN Kommunikation GmbH

Daniel Schellhoss                                   Armin Fourier

Mathias-Brueggen-Str. 148                    Hanauer Landstr. 161-173

D-50829 Cologne                                   D-60314 Frankfurt am 
Main

Germany                                                Germany

Tel.: +49-221/95339-30                         Tel.: +49-69/923186-0

Fax: +49-221/95339-40                         Fax: +49-69/923186-22

E-Mail: info@prosyst.com                     E-Mail: afourier@hfn.de

Internet: www.prosyst.com