Oshkosh Selects ITTIA Database Solution and Joins Club ITTIA
A heavy truck manufacterer decided on an open-source database for an upcoming millitary vehicle. They found that the open-source world had more to offer to them.
(PRWEB) April 11, 2005 -- Oshkosh, known for making some of the toughest
trucks in the world, selected an ITTIA database solution and joined Club ITTIA,
the ITTIA database community. Oshkosh is using db.* for ARM/Linux in an upcoming
version of their A3 HEMTT (Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck) military
vehicle.
No matter if you need to plow your way through Saharan sands or
Arctic snow – Oshkosh offers a vehicle. The company makes heavy-duty vehicles
for the defense, fire emergency and commercial industries. Oshkosh's vehicles
include concrete carriers and refuse trucks, snow blowers and fire trucks.
Oshkosh spent significant time and resources to evaluate various
embedded databases before they selected ITTIA database solutions. For Oshkosh,
the winner was db.* because of the database’s performance, ITTIA’s support
(including on-line training and technical support), and the fact that there was
zero licensing fee.
Jim Bomkamp, development manager from Oshkosh, was in
charge of database selection. Bomkamp explained that the company took many
factors into account before choosing a database, including footprint size and
autonomy. As a component of a military truck currently used in Iraq and
Afghanistan, reliability and simplicity are paramount.
Oshkosh’s
decision to select ITTIA and db.* "came down to the economics of it," according
to Bomkamp. "There were some other database companies that would do what we
wanted to do and would provide training and so forth – but they were far more
expensive than ITTIA database solutions."
Over the product lifetime,
Oshkosh will likely save hundreds of thousands of dollars in training costs and
licensing fees with ITTIA. ITTIA’s db.* is free to download, develop and
distribute. There are no licensing or development fees whatsoever. That, coupled
with the maturity of the code and documentation and the low-cost online and
on-site training and technical support, places the total cost of ownership (TCO)
of db.* and ITTIA solutions far below that of any competitor.
"The
training was excellent," said Bomkamp. "It was very very good. The instructor
was very knowledgeable and stepped us through the program. I really believe that
we learned everything we needed through the training."
After the
training, the Oshkosh engineers optimized their code using the superior methods
they learned. Oshkosh continues to utilize ITTIA professional technical support
as their needs evolve and new challenges arise. Bomkamp said that their
experience has been very positive, and that they intend to work with ITTIA for
other projects.
"Oshkosh is a very smart company, and we are proud to
announce that they chose our solutions over that of all our competitors," said
Sasan Montaseri, president of ITTIA. "They did their research, and made their
decision based on performance and cost. I encourage others to look at our
offerings before they settle on a second-class solution, or one that will cost
them tens of thousands or even millions more in licensing and development
costs."
More about db.* is at http://www.ittia.com/dbstar/dbstar.html. More information
about Club ITTIA is at http://www.ittia.com/club_ittia/
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