 Prior work on <a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/ISIS/ISIS.html"> Isis </a> has created a substantial user base, and we expect rapid uptake of Horus within this community as it matures.  Isis users span a wide range of industries, including telecommunications systems, financial trading systems, stock market automation, factory-floor process control for discrete electronic component manufacture, air traffic control, and space-based communications system management and control.  Applications of Isis are being explored in several branches of the military, as well as the NSA and other non-military government branches.  Among the more visible military efforts is the Naval Hiper-D project, which is exploring the use of Isis in a new system that prototypes technologies for future enhancements of the AEGIS battle radar system.  The more demanding applications in this user base would benefit from access to Horus, and our initial plan is to make it possible to migrate Isis applications to Horus with few changes, thus benefiting this community in a direct way.  Technology transition has occured through licensing agreements with Isis Distributed Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Stratus Computers.  However, all of our Cornell work is also available to researchers at no fee, and is described through detailed publications and programming manuals. <p>
