ST. LOUIS, MO - The next CONNECT Code-A-Thon wil be held in Portland Oregon, November 19th and 20th. Some 150 developers from leading technology providers will be attending. The Nationwide Health Information Network is sponsoring the activity. CONNECT is an important software project which will allow easy access by healthcare providers to complex patient information. A significant amount of time and money is wasted when records are not available in a timely manner.

ST. LOUIS, MO - The St. Louis Business Journal is a weekly paper covering the St. Louis business community. Each week it offers a feature, entitled "St. Louis Character," highlighting a local business leader, and includes background on their business activities as well as their personal histories, hobbies, community activities, and social networks. It also includes quotes from other well known St. Louisians about that person.

The November 6th edition featured Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) founder and CEO, Dr. Ebrahim Moshiri.

OCI & Advantage sponsored the Strange Loop IT conference in St. Louis, MO, on October 22-23, 2009. The venue was the beautiful Tivoli Theatre on Delmar ("the loop"). In addition to sponsorship, there were 26 OCI & Advantage employees in attendance. Two employees volunteered to present.

ST. LOUIS, MO - The Futures Industry Assocation Expo 2009 is being held October 20th through 22nd at the Chicago Hilton (720 South Michigan Avenue). As in previous years OCI will be exhibiting and featuring its open source financial products and services.

ST. LOUIS, MO - OCI attended the NHIN CONNECT Code-A Thon last Thursday at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., contributing time and expertise to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) open source software system known as CONNECT. NHIN CONNECT integrates healthcare information from many providers, enabling Healthcare Information Exchanges at state and national levels. The Code-A-Thon forum brought together leading software developers & contributors for a hands-on collaborative session to establish CONNECT as the most viable software product for Health Information Exchanges.

ST. LOUIS, MO - The Naval Air Systems Command of the United States Navy (NAVAIR) has notified OCI this week that it has been selected from the three Phase I contractors to be the sole supplier to the Phase II project for mission simulation software. NAVAIR at Patuxent River, Md., is managing the overall project, which is being carried out under the auspices of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

Stephen Field presents OCI's approach of using open source software for health information

A recent article in Electronic Design, the on-line embedded systems magazine, mentioned OpenDDS as the only open source implementation of the OMG DSS specification. It also highlighted some of the benefits of DDS over other publish/subscribe technologies. Read the entire article here: Parallel Programming Is Here To Stay.  

ST. LOUIS, MO - The financial services practice of OCI has developed, and today released, an open source version of the FAST standard. It is called QuickFAST.The FAST [SM] (Fix Adapted for STreaming) protocol was developed by FIX Protocol Limited [FPL] as a way to reduce the bandwidth and network-latency required to distribute market data without incurring excessive CPU costs. It is being widely adopted in the financial industry.

ST. LOUIS, MO - October, 2008 - Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) announced it will be once again exhibiting at the Futures Industry Association Conference being held in Chicago, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, (East Wacker Drive) on November 10th through the 12th. OCI will be featuring its open source products and services in Booth #340 on the Expo Floor.