1060 Research is pleased to announce the release of 1060(R) NetKernel(TM) 3.0.

1060(R) NetKernel(TM) is a resource oriented microkernel and application server that provides a coherent execution abstraction that radically reduces software complexity. Its self-consistent design is based on the convergence and unification of powerful fundamental concepts found in the World Wide Web and Unix(R).

Version 3.0 introduces new tools, capabilities, documentation, performance enhancements, bundled applications, and user suggested refinements. "This new version represents fifteen months of refinement and extensions to the already production proven NetKernel 2.0 product.", said Peter Rodgers, CEO of 1060 Research.

NetKernel is powering applications in a wide range of fields, including digital libraries, large-scale peer-to-peer distributed systems, corporate information integration hubs, and workgroup applications. NetKernel applications have proven fast to develop, extend, and inexpensive to maintain. "We built a full replacement for a J2EE telecoms application that took 2 man-years to build in 2 man-months with NetKernel. The response time dropped from 60 seconds to under 1 second." said Dave Butler, freelance architect with a Major Telecom Provider.

NetKernel is written in Java(TM) and runs on a wide range of deployment platforms from small configurations to SMP and multi-core computers. Sophisticated features such as thread throttling and high-performance intrinsic caching ensures that whatever the platform, NetKernel applications will fully utilize available processing power. Development of NetKernel applications can be done in any of the supported scripting languages: Java, Python, Groovy, JavaScript, Java, or DPML. NetKernel 3.0 includes a wide range of development tools including XUnit for unit testing, an integrated debugger, request tracing, and dependency cache visualization.

Also included is a complete set of documentation, tutorials, trail maps, reference manuals and three example applications: a full featured, open-source forum, a simple address book, and a REST based version of the classic Ping Pong game (with a twist).

NetKernel (TM) 3.0 is offered under a dual license. Open-source projects may use and deploy with NetKernel for no-charge. "We believe our license represents a business model that's fair to the open source community, fair value to the commercial world and provides the basis for long term business partnerships.", said Peter Rodgers.

NetKernel 3.0 is available immediately from the 1060 Research web site at http://download.1060.org/

About 1060 Research

1060 Research is a profitable UK based software infrastructure company founded in 2002 and is based in Chipping Sodbury, UK. Please contact +44 1454 311345 for additional information about NetKernel 3.0 and 1060 Research.