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Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Tao Group
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 25 October 2004

Open platform progresses
as OCPA becomes OCPUG

The Open Content Platform Association (OCPA) has successfully met its formation objectives and will now move into a new phase with the creation of the Open Contents Platform User Group (OCPUG)

During the last three years, the OCPA's 50 member companies worked tirelessly to define a multimedia middleware platform that would be independent of networked device type, hardware and operating system, enabling games, music, Java and other services and content of any type to be delivered seamlessly to the user.

Intent from Tao Group was selected and ratified as the platform solution of choice.

Evolving the OCPA to a user group will build on these solid foundations to give content creators worldwide access to the Intent platform to build highly marketable multimedia applications.

Since the OCPA's inception in 2001, Intent license sales have topped the 10 million unit mark, and the Open Contents Platform has proven its scalability and portability by hitting the market in phones, DVCs, DTVs, STBs, PDAs, home servers, PVRs and other devices running on a variety of ARM, Power PC, x86, MIPS and SH processors and numerous operating systems including iTron, Windows Mobile, Linux, symbian and VxWorks.

In addition to its unique low-level portability, the platform has succeeded in providing major advances for running games, music and Java across networked consumer devices winning a number of awards along the way.

Last year Yasuo Nishiguchi, President of Kyocera Corp, vacated the OCPA Chair after two years contribution, to be replaced by Francis Charig, Tao's own Chairman.

Charig stated then that the objective had to be to conclude ratification and move towards the next phase of increasing the content base.

That stage has now been successfully achieved.

With the ratification and the original three year plan completed, the OCPA will be replaced by the OCPUG with the objective of providing access to the ratified platform through online information sources, seminars, application development kits (ADKs) and upgrades and to encourage the creation of product extensions alongside portable content of a quality that can be achieved only by using the Intent platform.

Charig said: "We are very grateful for the immense contribution from member companies in helping us define a platform that meets the requirements of the entire food chain based around operators and device manufacturers".

"For this next phase, we are expecting to work hard collaborating with the industry, continuing to show why the Open Contents Platform gives not only cost and time advantages, but also application quality benefits with more music, games and Java programs".

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