rti's open community source: licensing and pricing that just makes sense

A Business and Licensing Approach for Enabling Interoperable Systems

and Common Infrastructures

Curt Schacker

Chief Commercial Officer, RTI

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Agenda

• Introduction • The Goals: Interoperability and Common

Infrastructure • Business Challenges • The Infrastructure Community Program • Q&A

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About RTI

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• World leader in communications software for real-time systems – 350,000+ deployed copies

– 500+ unique designs

• Standards leader – 15+ standards

organizations

– Prime DDS author (OMG)

RTI’s Market: Real-Time Systems

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Industry Goals

• Common Infrastructures – Leverage Developer Familiarity

– Technology Re-Use

– Cost and Time Savings

• Interoperability – Increased Operational Utility and Functionality

– Supply Chain Flexibility

– Competitive Advantage

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Interoperability

• “The ability of systems to provide services to and accept services from other systems, and to use the services so exchanged to enable them to operate effectively together” – See RTI Whitepaper: Interoperable Open

Architecture

• Examples – UCS, FICAPS, GVA, DocBox

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OPEN BUSINESS MODEL AND STANDARDS FOR

Unmanned Aircraft Ground Control Stations (UCS)

H A S

UCS WG 100+ Orgs & over 300 memebers

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Future Interoperability Camp Protection System (FICAPS)

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Generic Vehicle Architecture (GVA)

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DocBox

• Clinical Process Management Solution

– Eliminate medical mistakes

– Improve clinical workflow and processes

– Shift time from administrative tasks to patient care

• Three areas of focus

– Medical Device Integration and Management

– Decision Support and Enabling Evidence Based Medicine

– Safety Interlocks and Smart Alarms

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OMG Data Distribution Service

Data Distribution Service – DDS • Data-centric publish/subscribe

• Per channel QoS

• Content and time aware

Portability / Interoperability • API for application portability

• Wire protocol for interoperability

Transparent Connectivity • C, C++, Java, .NET, Ada

• Windows, Linux, embedded, realtime

Real-Time Publish-Subscribe

Wire Protocol (RTPS)

Middleware

DDS API

Cross-vendor Portability

Cross-vendor Interoperability

Open Standard enabling Common Software Infrastructure and Interoperability

BUSINESS CHALLENGES

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Fundamental Goal: Collaboration

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Enemies of Collaboration: Cost and Licensing Terms

Root Cause: License Scope

• Most infrastructure software scoped to a Project – A concerted development effort by a distinct team of

engineers

– Infrastructure software examples: operating systems, middleware, networking stacks

• Practical implications – No sharing between licensed Projects

– Potentially high costs due to volume-based pricing schedules

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Defining an Ideal Model

• Broaden license scope to encompass multiple Projects

– Even across and between companies and government organizations

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Enable collaboration through sharing

of people, knowledge, and innovation

Economies of scale through broad use

Goal for License Fees

• Simple to understand -> don’t need a Ph.d

• Predictable -> so it can be budgeted for

• Fair -> don’t penalize small teams with small budgets

• Scale with perceived value

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INTRODUCING: INFRASTRUCTURE COMMUNITY PROGRAM

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Infrastructure Community Program

• What is an Infrastructure Community?

– Any organization with a goal of adopting a common software infrastructure across groups, programs, systems or applications

– Examples

• entire government industry standards communities • individual companies or corporate divisions • development sites and multi-company joint efforts

– Any team or group of teams of reasonable size qualifies.

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Open Community Source

• RTI DDS – Our flagship, market leading product – Full source code – Binaries for Linux and Windows – Available T&M support

• License – Fully shareable across IC – Modifiable – Deployable in binary as part of application

• Cost – Free of charge

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RTI Connext Tools • Admin Console • Monitor • Analyzer • Record/Replay

RTI Connext DDS

• OMG DDS Libraries • Basic tools & utilities • Platform Options • Commercial Terms

RTI Connext Micro

• Small footprint DDS • Resource Constrained Systems

RTI Connext Micro Cert

• DO-178C Certifiable

Advanced Products: RTI Connext

• Enterprise Communication Patterns

• Persistence Service • Secure & WAN Xports

RTI Connext Messaging

• Routing Service • Adapter SDK • Example Adapters • Database Integration

RTI Connext Integrator

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RTI Connext Pricing

• Prices start at a flat $1,000 per Developer (US) • All products include library source code • No royalties

Introducing RTI Connext 5.0

• Enterprise Integration Patterns

• Enhanced Scalability

• Administration Console

• Over 70 new features

Publisher

Message

Message

Message

Subscriber

Durable Subscriber

Message

Accelerates development and integration of large-scale, interoperable real-time systems

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Infrastructure Community Summary

• Latest version of flagship RTI DDS for free under Open Community Source license

• Advanced products – Low, flat fee per developer license fee

– Source included

– No royalties

• Measures Up – Simple, predictable, affordable, scales sensibly

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Interoperability and Common Infrastructures

• Are we at an inflection point for mission critical, real-time systems?

– Economic pressures

– Demand for more operational utility

– Integration of Enterprise and Machine computing

• If so, we need to consider new approaches

– Technical and Business Considerations

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Thank you

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