Killdara unveils Vitiris, a lightweight web services platform for P2P environmentsAlmonte 31 July 2001 Killdara Corporation, a company active in the Grid Computing space, announced details of their second-generation product, the Vitiris Web Services Platform. Vitiris is designed for OEM and embedded use and support standards including SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL, which are collectively known as "Web Services".
"Basic Web Services running on anything, anywhere. That's the goal of
Vitiris", stated Killdara founder and CTO John Ogilvie. "We see a world
where millions of organizations are connected in electronic business grids, with
Web Services providing the 'communications fabric'. We offer Vitiris as the
simplest solution for building these grids."
Vitiris is targeted at vertical markets where Killdara has already
established a reputation and partnerships, including healthcare clinical
messaging and electronic transactions for business communities.
Vitiris will be available later this year on an OEM basis for hardware and
software vendors. The Vitiris Standard Edition is a low-cost entry-level
platform, requiring only the lightweight J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition). The
Standard edition supports SOAP over HTTPS as well as WSDL and UDDI. Vitiris
Enterprise Edition adds support for JDBC database connectivity, PKI security as
well as advanced transport such as SMTP and FTP.
For integrators and end-users, both editions will be bundled with third- party
network appliances and servers such as the NC4 pictured.
Pricing will be determined by Killdara partners, but is expected to be very
aggressive in order to drive widespread build-out of Web Services infrastructure
in early 2002.
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