Real-Time Innovations
Overview
Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley located in the San Francisco Bay Area...
(USA) specializing in publish/subscribe
Publish/subscribe
Publish–subscribe is a messaging pattern where senders of messages, called publishers, do not program the messages to be sent directly to specific receivers, called subscribers. Published messages are characterized into classes, without knowledge of what, if any, subscribers there may be...
middleware
Middleware
Middleware is computer software that connects software components or people and their applications. The software consists of a set of services that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact...
. The company's major competitors are PrismTech
PrismTech
PrismTech, is a software company founded in 1992 by Keith Steele, John Russell and John Bigerstaff. PrismTech's USA headquarters are located at Woburn, MA, USA with other offices in Gateshead, UK; Paris, France; Hengelo, Netherlands....
, 29West
29West
29West Inc., now a business unit of Informatica , is a computer networking software company based in the Chicago area specializing in Message Oriented Middleware...
, and TIBCO Software
TIBCO Software
TIBCO Software Inc. is a provider of infrastructure software for companies to use on-premise or as part of cloud computing environments. TIBCO manages information, decisions, processes and applications in real-time for over 4,000 customers worldwide...
.
RTI was founded by a group of robotics
Robotics
Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...
researchers at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. In 1995, the company was awarded research contracts from ATP, and in 1998 was named the 16th fastest-growing company in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
. In 2003, RTI submitted to the Object Management Group
Object Management Group
Object Management Group is a consortium, originally aimed at setting standards for distributed object-oriented systems, and is now focused on modeling and model-based standards.- Overview :...
(OMG) a draft for the Data Distribution Service (DDS)
Data Distribution Service
Data distribution service for real-time systems is a specification of a publish/subscribe middleware for distributed systems created by the Object Management Group in response to the need to standardize a data-centric publish-subscribe programming model for distributed systems.- History :A few...
standard, which was approved the following year.
