New version supports Itanium 2, Red Hat Linux TimesTen, of Mountain View, Calif., on Monday is announcing general availability of Version 5.0 of its Real-Time Event Processing System infrastructure software for telco and financial services customers. The product enables high-performance event-processing applications to store and distribute information in real time while preserving transactional integrity and continuous availability. Release 5.0 features improved performance, scalability, and ease of integration into existing systems, the company said. Concurrency, the ability for multiple users to access and share the same data simultaneously, has been improved via a new locking model that imposes fewer locks and eliminates locking delays between readers and writers. Additionally, the product now can be deployed on systems running Intel Itanium 2 processors and the Red Hat Linux operating system. Also, requests can pass transparently to an Oracle database when an operation cannot be processed from the TimesTen system. Software Development