RISCOS Ltd

 

PRESS RELEASE 15/10/04

RISCOS Ltd and Castle Technology Ltd announce new co-operative Agreement on future RISC OS Development.

Castle Technology Ltd and RISCOS Ltd are delighted to announce that late on Friday 15th October they concluded negotiations on a new Licence Agreement that ensures a bright future for all areas of RISC OS development.

The new licence ensures that both RISC OS 4 and RISC OS 5 will be merged together, as soon as practically possible and that clear areas of responsibility have been established ensuring that duplication of effort is minimised.

Paul Middleton Managing Director of RISC OS Ltd said "I'm sure that all the RISC OS users who have waited for the availability of the Select Desktop experience will be delighted to know thatan expect to enjoy it on many more platforms, such as the IYONIX pc, next year.”

Jack Lillingston Managing Director of Castle said "This is fantastic news for all parties concerned and I know that this sets sound foundations for a bright new future of RISC OS. Castle will continue with the IYONIX pc and other desktop products, whilst Tematic (a trading division of Castle) will focus its activities on the embedded sector. This means that more and more devices using RISC OS will become available around the world.”

John Ballance, CTO of Castle Technology explained that "merging the two versions of RISC OS together makes very good sense. This means a set of standard APIs for RISC OS and this will be of great benefit to RISC OS developers.”

Mike Glover of Icon Technology, who chaired the discussions, pointed out that "this solution ensures that RISC OS 4 will continue to be available for the foreseeable future and that all RISC OS hardware and software developers will continue to supply their products.”

All RISC OS users are warmly invited to attend the Guildford RISC OS Show on Saturday 23rd October in order to talk to everyone concerned with this fantastic new development.

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For further details contact:

Paul Middleton
Managing Director
RISCOS Ltd
Web: http://www.riscos.com/
Email: paul@riscos.com
Tel: 02920 464020

Jack Lillingston
Managing Director
Castle Technology Ltd
Web: http://www.iyonix.com/
Email: jack.lillingston@iyonix.com
Tel: 01728 723200