1060 NetKernel 4.0 Released

October, 14, 2009, Bristol, UK - 1060(R) Research, Ltd. is pleased to announce the release of 1060(R) NetKernel^TM Standard Edition 4.0.0.

NetKernel is a resource oriented computing^TM (ROC) platform built on
a Java^TM-based REST microkernel architecture. NetKernel may be used either as a fully-featured standalone application server or as an embeddable component allowing ROC's caching and scalability to be used inside existing Java application architectures.

ROC and earlier generations of NetKernel have been proven in intensive production systems for over seven years in industries ranging from Telecoms, Insurance and Military.

NetKernel 4.0.0 has taken four years of intensive research and development. It is completely new and introduces a general model for the resource oriented composition of software. Conceptually ROC extends and unifies concepts from Unix and REST to offer dynamically bound fully decoupled Web-like software environments within and between the finest granularity code.

NetKernel Standard Edition is a modular system and is backed by a large repository of installable packages, including dynamic languages, domain specific resource processing tool-sets and a diverse range of transports.

NetKernel Standard Edition is released under the 1060 Public License
and is available for download from http://www.1060research.com

About 1060 Research, Limited

Founded in 2002 with technology seeding from Hewlett-Packard Labs, 1060 Research, Ltd. is an industry leading innovator of software infrastructure and the leading voice in Resource-Oriented Computing.

For more information, visit: http://www.1060research.com

Contacts

Randolph Kahle
Director of Marketing
1060 Research, Ltd
rsk@1060research.com
+1 520 971 2962

Peter Rodgers, CEO 1060 Research and an Architect of 1060 NetKernel, will be presenting "Rapid Distributed System Development with NetKernel"

NetKernel is a resource-oriented computing (ROC) software platform which provides a flexible, productive and high performance foundation for enterprise systems. ROC leverages the best ideas from the Web and Unix and represents an evolutionary step beyond REST and SOA style architectures.

Resource-Oriented Environment Powers Critical Web Infrastructure

July 27, 2009, Bristol, UK, - 1060(R) Research, Ltd. is pleased to announce that a new generation of the Persistent URL (PURL) service has gone live powered by the NetKernel(tm) Resource Oriented Computing(tm) platform. The Open Source development effort that created the new version was sponsored by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) as an upgrade to the existing PURL service, which it built and has hosted for over 12 years.

The PURL service provides persistent, stable World Wide Web (WWW) addresses for the international library and education community, government, business, non-profit organizations, and private citizens. PURLs are Web addresses or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that act as permanent identifiers in the face of a dynamic and changing Web infrastructure.

The new service will add features and make it more scalable to face an expected increase in demand over the next few years. In addition to making it easier to create and maintain persistent URIs, it will now support URI redirection for information and non-information resources such as concepts, organizations and people. This will be a key enabler of Semantic Web-based applications. The new service will allow URI-based concepts to be stable and resolved using existing protocols.

NetKernel is a resource-oriented computing environment that builds upon the architectural properties of Unix pipes, Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and the Representational State Transfer (REST) style of information, service and document processing. NetKernel's architecture makes it dramatically easier and less expensive to develop flexible, scalable and fast software.

"We are pleased that the NetKernel PURL project is complete and that the PURL service is now running on a resource oriented computing platform." says Peter Rodgers, CEO of 1060 Research, Ltd, the developers of NetKernel.

More information on NetKernel is available from the 1060 Research web site: www.1060research.com/netkernel/. More information on the PURL service is available on the OCLC PURL Web site: www.purl.org.

About 1060 Research, Limited

Founded in 2002 with technology seeding from Hewlett-Packard Labs, 1060 Research, Ltd. is an industry leading innovator of software infrastructure and the leading voice in Resource-Oriented Computing.

For more information, visit: www.1060research.com

Contacts

Randolph Kahle
Director of Marketing
1060 Research, Ltd
rsk@1060research.com
+1 520 971 2962

Resource-Oriented Environment Powers Healthcare Infrastructure

March 12, 2009, Bristol, UK, - 1060(R) Research, Ltd. is pleased to announce that Blue Shield of California placed into production a upgraded NPI-Catch system that now runs on the NetKernel(tm) Resource Oriented Computing(tm) platform.

NetKernel is a resource oriented computing platform that builds upon the architectural principles of Unix and Representational State Transfer (REST). NetKernel's architecture makes it dramatically easier and less expensive to develop flexible, scalable and fast software.

NetKernel is a resource-oriented computing environment that builds upon the architectural properties of Unix pipes, Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and the Representational State Transfer (REST) style of information, service and document processing. NetKernel's architecture makes it dramatically easier and less expensive to develop flexible, scalable and fast software.

More information on NetKernel is available from the 1060 Research web site: www.1060research.com/netkernel/.

About Blue Shield of California

Blue Shield of California, an independent member of the Blue Shield Association, is a not-for-profit health plan dedicated to providing Californians with access to high-quality health care at a reasonable price.

For more information, visit: www.blueshieldca.com

About 1060 Research, Limited

Founded in 2002 with technology seeding from Hewlett-Packard Labs, 1060 Research, Ltd. is an industry leading innovator of software infrastructure and the leading voice in Resource Oriented Computing.

For more information, visit: www.1060research.com

Contacts

Randolph Kahle
Director of Marketing
1060 Research, Ltd
rsk@1060research.com
+1 520 971 2962

IT Professionals from around the globe return home with new optimism

September 25, 2008, Fredericksburg, VA, - 1060(R) Research, Ltd. is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of the 2008 Architects Weekend.

"We had great presentations by leading proponents of Resource Oriented Computing including Brian Sletten of Zepheria and Jeremy Deane of Collaborative demonstrating system they have recently put into production." said Tony Butterfield, CTO of 1060 Research.

Other hot topics included the forthcoming NetKernel 4.0 major release. Delegates received the first public build of the platform on limited edition NetKernel branded USB sticks.

About 1060 Research, Limited

Founded in 2002 with technology seeding from Hewlett-Packard Labs, 1060 Research, Ltd. is an industry leading innovator of software infrastructure and the leading voice in Resource-Oriented Computing.

For more information, visit: www.1060research.com

Contacts

Randolph Kahle
Director of Marketing
1060 Research, Ltd
rsk@1060research.com
+1 520 971 2962

September 19, 2008, Bristol, UK - 1060(R) Research, Ltd is pleased to announce that Randolph Kahle will conduct a full day workshop "Build the Server Side of Rich Internet Applications" at the Web Builder 2.0 2008 Conference on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 from 9:00 AM until 6:00 PM.

Workshop description: http://webbuilderconference.com/2008/workshops.aspx#2

When: October 15, 2008 from 9:00 AM until 6:00 PM

Where: Web Builder 2.0 Conference at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

WebBuilder 2.0 Conference information: http://webbuilderconference.com/2008/

WebBuilder 2.0 Conference registration: http://webbuilderconference.com/2008/rates.aspx

About 1060 Research, Limited

Founded in 2002 with technology seeding from Hewlett-Packards Labs, 1060 Research, Ltd. is an industry leading innovator of softare infrastructure and the leading voice in Resource-Oriented Computing.

www.1060research.com

September 17, 2008, Bristol, UK - 1060(R) Research, Ltd is pleased to announce Randolph Kahle's presentation "Building RESTful Rich Internet Applications" at the Web Builder 2.0 2008 Conference on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 11:15 AM.

Presentation description: http://webbuilderconference.com/2008/coding.aspx#17

When: October 14, 2008 at 11:15 AM

Where: WebBuilder 2.0 Conference at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

WebBuilder 2.0 Conference information: http://webbuilderconference.com/2008/

WebBuilder 2.0 conference registration: http://webbuilderconference.com/2008/rates.aspx

About 1060 Research, Limited

Founded in 2002 with technology seeding from Hewlett-Packard Labs, 1060 Research, Ltd. is an industry leading innovator of software infrastructure and the leading voice in Resource-Oriented Computing.

www.1060research.com

1060 NetKernel 3.3 Released

November 27, 2007, Bristol, UK - 1060(R) Research, Ltd is pleased to announce the release of 1060(R) NetKernel^TM 3.3

1060 NetKernel^TM is a resource-oriented computing platform and application server. NetKernel is built on Java (TM) and will run on any operating system supporting Java 1.4.2 or later.

"This new release of NetKernel is a significant milestone in evolution of the NetKernel 3 product line. NetKernel 3.3 contains new tools and documentation that make it easier to learn resource oriented computing (ROC) and see the inner workings of applications written on the NetKernel ROC platform", says Peter Rodgers, CEO of 1060 Research.

NetKernel 3.3 now features the Request Visualizer, a tool that captures resource requests and displays information about their processing from initiation by a transport through all spawned sub-requests. The Visualizer presents a three-level drill-down display which includes detailed information about each step of request processing. Through its visual presentation the tool provides both a comprehensive high-level view of application processing as well as fine-grained details of each facet, including whether results are returned from the system cache or computed by an accessor.

NetKernel 3.3 includes reorganized and rewritten documentation. "We recognize that resource oriented computing is new. Experimentation led us to a new approach to introduce ROC that is used in the Getting Started Guide and other documentation. We reorganized the books to group related material. The new Resource Model book highlights the importance of resource models and allows us to document future models easily." mentions Rodgers.

Performance of HTTP based applications will now use less network bandwidth and run faster due to support for if-modified-since, eTags and HTTP 304 support. "NetKernel already provided a high-performance solution for HTTP based applications. The modifications to the HTTP transport now allows browsers to coordinate their cache with NetKernel's cache and only transfer information that has changed since last requested. The change was very simple to make because of the resource oriented foundation of NetKernel" comments Rodgers.

New in NetKernel 3.3 is an Image resource model. This model is based on the Java 2D API and provides support for services such as crop, rotate, scale and others. Transreption from the new image resource type to physical types such as PNG and GIF is supported. NetKernel resource models include XML, Image, JSON, Pinky (Atom and RSS feeds) and RDF.

NetKernel's industry leading support for dynamic programming languages continues. Ruby support, first introduced in NetKernel 3.1 has been upgraded to a fully supported language with the inclusion of JRuby 1.0.1. A new language option, PHP, is available as an experimental language from the 1060 Research NetKernel update servers.

About NetKernel

NetKernel is a resource-oriented computing platform built on micro-kernel architecture that extends and combines concepts seen in Unix and the Web. It provides advanced technology that makes building powerful software simple and less expensive.

With resource-oriented computing, developers work at a flexible logical level, composing solutions using information resources and services. The resource-oriented level rests above the physical API-based level of objects, code and data. Customers using NetKernel report a ten to one-hundred times reduction in code compared to systems developed using physical computing based systems such as Java, J2EE, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), and Microsoft .Net.

NetKernel 3.3 is offered for use with either the 1060 Public open-source license or commercial license.

About 1060 Research, Limited

Founded in 2002 with technology seeding from Hewlett-Packard Labs, 1060 Research, Ltd. is an industry leading innovator of software infrastructure and the leading voice in Resource-Oriented Computing.

www.1060research.com

November 16, 2007, Bristol, UK - Skills Matter, Ltd. and 1060(R) Research, Ltd. are pleased to announce a free "In-The-Brain" seminar by Peter Rodgers, CEO of 1060 Research to be held in London on November 28, 2007.

The seminar will explore what lies beyond REST. For the last eight years Rodgers has explored the territory beyond and will introduce what he discovered: resource oriented computing - a unification of the Web and Unix. He will explain the principles of Resource Oriented Computing (ROC) and describe how it is being used today by companies to build high-performance systems in a fraction of the time and code required by Java J2EE and other approaches. Participation is free for registered attendees.

When: November 28th, 18:30-20:00
Where: Skills Matter, 1 Sekforde Street, London EC1R
Registration: http://skillsmatter.com/going-beyond-rest/pcd/4000

About Skills Matter, Ltd.

With the UK's largest selection of training on Open Source Technologies and agile software development, Skills Matter is a leading provider of training, mentoring and project based skills transfer.

About 1060 Research, Limited

Founded in 2002 with technology seeding from Hewlett-Packard Labs, 1060 Research, Ltd. is an industry leading innovator of software infrastructure and the leading voice in Resource-Oriented Computing.

For more information, visit: www.1060research.com

Contacts

Randolph Kahle
Director of Marketing
1060 Research, Ltd
rsk@1060research.com
+1 520 971 2962

Resource-Oriented Environment a Good Match for URI Infrastructure

August 2, 2007, Bristol, UK, - Zepheira, LLC. and 1060(R) Research, Ltd. are pleased to announce the selection of 1060(R) NetKernel as the key enabling technology for an updated Persistent URL (PURL) service. The Open Source development effort is being sponsored by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) as an upgrade to the existing PURL service, which it built and has hosted for over 12 years.

The PURL service provides persistent, stable World Wide Web (WWW) addresses for the international library and education community, government, business, non-profit organizations, and private citizens. PURLs are Web addresses or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that act as permanent identifiers in the face of a dynamic and changing Web infrastructure.

The new service will add features and make it more scalable to face an expected increase in demand over the next few years. In addition to making it easier to create and maintain persistent URIs, it will now support URI redirection for information and non-information resources such as concepts, organizations and people. This will be a key enabler of Semantic Web-based applications. The new service will allow URI-based concepts to be stable and resolved using existing protocols.

NetKernel is a resource-oriented computing environment that builds upon the architectural properties of Unix pipes, Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and the Representational State Transfer (REST) style of information, service and document processing. NetKernel's architecture makes it dramatically easier and less expensive to develop flexible, scalable and fast software.

"When looking for an infrastructure to use as the basis of the PURL rearchitecture work, we needed to balance features, track record, ease of development and flexibility in supporting new capabilities. We have had great success for our customers with NetKernel in the enterprise. With its focus on scalable resource-oriented computing, it was a natural candidate for this work," says Eric Miller, Zepheira's President.

David Wood, a Zepheira partner and software maintenance researcher adds, "Software designed to run as Internet infrastructure for many years needs to be maintainable as well as scalable; simply being Open Source is not enough. NetKernel succeeds on all fronts with its modular, layered approach and efficient microkernel architecture. The fact that it has the polish of a commercial product made the decision to leverage this toolkit an easy one to make."

"We are pleased that 1060 NetKernel was selected as the foundation for the rearchitected PURL service," says Peter Rodgers, PhD, CEO of 1060 Research. Rodgers continues, "NetKernel uses URIs internally to identify all elements of software including resources, services and code so it seems natural that NetKernel will now support a global URI resolution service. We have seen NetKernel used in a wide range of enterprise applications, so we know that Zepheria and OCLC will have the scalability, flexibility, and productivity they need to build a high-performance, easily managed system. We are pleased to support such an important open-source project."

More information on NetKernel is available from the 1060 Research web site: www.1060research.com/netkernel/. More information on the PURL service is available on the OCLC PURL Web site: www.purl.org.

About Zepheira

Zepheira is a US-based professional services firm with expertise in semantic technologies and Enterprise Data Integration. Zepheira delivers solutions worldwide to integrate, navigate and manage data across personal, group and enterprise boundaries. Zepheira performs business analysis, data architecture, application development and implementation. Zepheira's experts have a long history of leading Internet standards initiatives, and delivering solutions to industries including manufacturing, financial services, medical research and defense. The company is privately held and has offices in Virginia, Ohio and Colorado.

For more information, visit: www.zepheira.com

About 1060 Research, Limited

Founded in 2002 with technology seeding from Hewlett-Packard Labs, 1060 Research, Ltd. is an industry leading innovator of software infrastructure and the leading voice in Resource-Oriented Computing.

For more information, visit: www.1060research.com

Contacts

Brian Sletten
Partner
Zepheira
brian@zepheira.com
tel: +1.866.725.9033

Randolph Kahle
Director of Marketing
1060 Research, Ltd
rsk@1060research.com
+1 520 971 2962