Transitive Corp.
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Transitive Corporation is a pioneer and leader in providing solutions that allow the transportability of software applications across multiple OS and processor pairs. The company’s QuickTransit® hardware virtualization technology allows software applications that have been compiled for one OS/processor pair to run on another without any source code or binary changes and at speeds comparable to native ports. Transitive specializes in developing innovative dynamic binary translation software, and is headquartered at Los Gatos in California with development resources in Manchester in the UK.
[edit] Products
Transtive provided the engine used in Apple's Rosetta software, which translates software for Apple machines using PowerPC processors so it can run on Intel-based Macintoshes, the engine is based on Transitive Corporation's QuickTransit software.
Silicon Graphics (SGI) distributes QuickTransit with its Prism and Altix platforms, allowing applications written for older MIPS / IRIX machines to be used on the more recent Linux Itanium 2 hardware.
In November 2006 they released their Quicktransit for SPARC/Solaris to Linux/X86_64 product.
[edit] Announcements
Transitive Corporation has announced collaborations with Intel to develop solutions for products which translates software written for Sun Solaris using SPARC processors so it can run on the Linux operating system running Intel processors.