A Global Reach and a Broad Market

Aonix has always been a global company. Our roots go back over a quarter century, as we have melded together companies founded in France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States, with a proud heritage of international product engineering innovation. This issue of AoNews touches on a number of international successes and initiatives that underscore our global reach.

We're very proud of the recent selection of Aonix PERC by leading German supplier, Signalbau Huber, for their ground-breaking next-generation urban traffic control system, ACTROS-fusion. Signalbau conducted an extensive competitive evaluation leading to their selection, and came to the determination that PERC offered a mix of speed, robustness, scalability, and stability that could not be matched by any competitor. In terms of execution speed alone, Signalbau found PERC 500% faster than the competing solution. For this application, PERC will be tightly coupled with PikeOS from the German RTOS supplier, Sysgo.

The embedded/real-time market for Java is sometimes viewed as comparatively young, particularly outside the United States, yet the selection of PERC by Signalbau is only one of many important Aonix design wins across Europe. Other wins in Germany have addressed markets including automotive diagnostics, television broadcast equipment, power sytems, and aerospace. Other European wins have addressed critical needs in consumer electronics, avionics, space research, and battlefield computing.

This list of wins also highlights what we have experienced not only in Europe, but worldwide. The interest in predictable and productive Java technology cuts across many vertical market boundaries, and is growing in depth. Developers are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their understanding of the best forms of Java technologies for achieving critical system requirements. The market is maturing in the knowledge that conventional solutions simply are not adequate to the task of developing complex, long-lived, reliable  embedded applications, and to do so within time and budget restrictions. Competing technologies suffer with unpredictable memory management, lack of low level support, the inability to fulfill hard real-time and safety critical requirements, the failure to address resource constraints, and inadequate tool chains.

In recognition of the growing sophistication of the global market, Aonix is fortunate to have a new member added to our team: Laurent MARES as Vice President of European Sales and Operations. Laurent joins Aonix following a successful track record with Thales Computers, where he directed sales for Europe and Asia. He set up and developed Thales’ export sales and network of international distributors, driving the company to new heights in market reach and revenues. Laurent is well known and trusted in the European  embedded community.

Speaking of Asia, we have also recognized increasing enthusiasm about real-time/embedded Java solutions in the Asian market. One example of this enthusiasm is evidenced by our recent partnership with Fujitsu for supporting the growing Japanese market for these technologies. We anticipate the spread of PERC and other Aonix technologies in Japan, India, and other key technology sectors in Asia.

Just as the United States market has embraced PERC technology in verticals as diverse as industrial automation, unmanned aerial vehicles, warship management, office automation, telemetry systems, network infrastructure, fleet telematics, and electronic instrumentation, we are seeing the same trends of development on a global basis.

While it may be true that our competition continues to seek its first real-world deployed successes in markets targeted by Aonix, we are not resting on our laurels. Growing market demand also breeds growing market requirements and competitive pressures. Our outstanding engineering team is busy at work with next generation solutions for our products that will keep us ahead of our competition, and, most importantly, keep our customers ahead of their competition, for years to come. We'll be talking more about "futures" in upcoming issues of AoNews, as well as venues such as our upcoming free seminar series with our partners Wind River, Verocel, and OIS.

We are chomping at the bit for many exciting projects that lie ahead.

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