Digia Extends Qt Commercial Primary Platform Support to Include Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY RTOS

The INTEGRITY RTOS' Broad Market Adoption Drives Top Tier Support and Services Availability for Qt Developers

BOSTON, MA, Sep 27, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Embedded Systems Conference, Booth #409 -- Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, and Digia, Qt Commercial, the pioneer in the commercial development, licensing, support and services of Qt for desktop and embedded development, today announced broad market availability and primary platform support for the latest Qt Commercial development framework solutions on Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY(R) real-time operating system (RTOS). This support enables easy access to the latest in Qt Commercial releases, validated and tested with the industry's leading safe and secure real-time operating system, INTEGRITY, resulting in reduced time-to-market, development cost, and support burden for graphics application and UI development.

 

"Qt Commercial support for INTEGRITY offers our customers access to one of the leading cross-platform graphical environments for the design and deployment of rich user interfaces for a wide range of vertical markets such as medical, industrial, automotive, and consumer applications," said Jim McElroy, director of industry business development, Green Hills Software. "This combination offers our safety- and security-focused customers the most reliable and secure way of incorporating best-in-class UI and graphical applications in the fastest time-to-market for their embedded devices."

Qt Commercial from Digia is a cross-platform UI and application framework with tools designed to facilitate the commercial creation and deployment of applications for desktop and embedded platforms. The framework includes:

        
        --  APIs for C++ programming;
        --  Easy-to-use modular class library;
        --  Integrated development tools;
        --  Cross-platform IDE;
        --  Quick and efficient LIVE technical support from Qt experts; and
        --  Single and multi-platform licenses available.
        
        

"Digia, Qt Commercial is pleased to be adding primary platform support for one of the embedded industry's leading commercial RTOS -- INTEGRITY," said Tuukka Turunen, director of R&D, Digia, Qt Commercial. "Now customers have the confidence and capability to easily design, develop and deploy sophisticated UI and graphics applications in their mission-critical projects and run them in a safe, secure manner on their INTEGRITY-based embedded devices."

INTEGRITY is Green Hills Software's flagship real-time operating system that has been successfully deployed in a wide range of end-customer products where safety and reliability are paramount. According to the industry's leading market analysts, INTEGRITY has demonstrated the highest growth in real-time operating system market share over the past decade. The success of INTEGRITY is due to its advanced technological design, incorporating memory protection, guaranteed resource availability, secure remote management, and hard real-time deterministic response. INTEGRITY technology is certified to numerous safety standards including IEC 61508 (SIL 3) and EN 50128 CENELEC (SWSIL 4), in addition to the highest Common Criteria (IEC 15408) security level ever achieved for any commercial operation system -- EAL6+, High Robustness.

Qt Commercial support for the INTEGRITY RTOS will be available with the Qt Commercial 4.8 release in 4Q 2011.

Don't forget to sign up to Qt Developer Days 2011, the only Qt developer event of the year. Green Hills and platinum sponsor, Digia, Qt Commercial, will be speaking at Qt Developer Days in Munich, Germany October 24-26 and in San Francisco, California November 29 - December 1. http://qt.nokia.com/qtdevdays2011

About Green Hills Software Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is the largest independent vendor of embedded development solutions. In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY-178B RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified by NIAP (National Information Assurance Partnership comprised of NSA & NIST) to EAL6+, High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software product. Our open architecture integrated development solutions address deeply embedded, absolute security and high reliability applications for the military/avionics, medical, industrial, automotive, networking, consumer and other markets that demand industry-certified solutions. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at www.ghs.com .

About Digia, Qt Commercial Digia Plc, the Helsinki-based services and consulting powerhouse listed in the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki exchange (DIG1V), is a worldwide leading Qt application and UI development, consulting, testing and UX design services and consulting company. Digia is a recognized global leader in the Qt ecosystem with over 10 years of Qt competence and investment. Digia's pioneering Qt Commercial product and services offering provides commercial developers and companies the most powerful cross-platform UI and application framework available today on desktop and embedded platforms with a one-stop shop for development, licensing, support, consulting and training. Digia operates in China, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and USA. Digia's Qt Commercial is used by more than 6,500 active, licensed developers at large and small businesses across more than 70 industries. To learn more about Digia, Qt Commercial, please visit: http://qt.digia.com ./

Green Hills, the Green Hills logo, and INTEGRITY are trademarks or registered trademarks of Green Hills Software, Inc. in the U.S. and/or internationally. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

        
        Contact:
        Green Hills Software
        Barbel French
        +1 805-965-6044
        bfrench@ghs.com
        
        Digia, Qt Commercial
        Katherine Barrios
        +47 95 14 64 14
        katherine.barrios@digia.com