Montclair, NJ; York, ENGLAND – Vita Nuova today announced the opening of its first office in the United States. The Montclair, NJ, location will serve as a gateway to the U.S. market, enabling Vita Nuova to better service its growing user base in the United States, Canada and worldwide. Michael Baldwin, Vita Nuova technical sales director, has been appointed to head Vita Nuova's US office.

Vita Nuova, which is incorporated in the United States as Vita Nuova Inc., has customers in 21 countries across four continents. It is a developer and distributor of Inferno, a compact, efficient operating system for embedded devices, and Plan 9, a general-purpose operating system for networked devices.

In separate news, Vita Nuova also announced today that it has now made Plan 9 available as a boxed set, incorporating an Open Source CD and a set of manuals, for the convenience of the user community.

“Since launching last June, Vita Nuova has already acquired a significant number of customers, half of them located in the United States,” said Michael Jeffrey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Vita Nuova. “We want to exploit the huge potential of the U.S. market, plus continue with our strategy to introduce the benefits of Inferno and Plan 9 to the world.

We believe an overwhelming number of device manufacturers, software companies and other users worldwide are dissatisfied with the limitations and complexity of today's traditional operating systems. Vita Nuova is poised to bring distributed application development into the 21st century by taking Inferno and Plan 9 to these users across the globe.”

The new U.S. location brings Vita Nuova full circle, since much of the development work for Inferno and Plan 9 took place at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs. Bell Labs continues to help support the evolution of the operating systems, which borrow from the principles of open source to encourage constant improvement and innovation via user feedback. The New Ventures Group of Lucent Technologies and United Kingdom investor SEDS Limited are Vita Nuova's principal investors.

Plan 9 and Inferno are network operating systems based on more than 30 years of research in operating systems and programming languages by Rob Pike, Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson and others at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs. Plan 9 runs native on a wide range of processor architectures and offers a C development environment for the construction of network applications. It is ideally suited for implementing large server based distributed applications.

Inferno offers a complete solution that can run native or hosted, is ideal for resource-constrained environments, and is highly scaleable. It employs a C-like programming language that is concurrent, safe and enables dynamic loading of modules. While Inferno can be used for a wide variety of distributed applications, it is designed for use with small network devices and Internet Appliances.

 
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