Software provider TCSI Corp. announced four contracts last week for its Object Services Package, which the company believes illustrates the industry’s interest in the distributed power and re-usability of object database systems.
TCSI has orders totaling $6 million, collectively, from Motorola Inc., Hughes Network Systems, Korea Mobile Telecom and interWave Communications.
Object technology allows users to store complex objects and their relationships with other objects. It’s a departure from storage technology that groups all similar items together.
The Object Services Package is TCSI’s flagship software product. It is a scalable, industrial-strength distributed object development and runtime environment for large, object-oriented client/server systems.
Last year, Berkeley, Calif.-based TCSI had a 16.9 percent share of the worldwide object middleware market, the company said.
TCSI licenses communication companies to use OSP for design, implementation and deployment applications for management and operations support systems. There are about 1,000 OSP development licenses in use at customer sites, TCSI said, which is a 13 percent increase since Dec. 13.
The Object Service Package also provides an integrated environment to deploy graphical user interfaces, object services (such as distributed object management) and a variety of communication gateways.
TCSI reported revenue of $40.3 million in the first six months of this year, and has offices in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim.
