Zaretto Company Overview
Formed in 1992 to focus on software development and simulator maintenance, particularly the Rediffusion TASC and Rediffusion ACCESS Instructor Operating Stations (IOS). We have a proven track record of using our skills to create new software, but also to support maintain and enhance existing systems in a very cost effective manner.
Flight simulator IOS, TASC, CRDS replacements
The flight simulator operations is still a core interest of the business although primarily we have been supporting existing customers. We are focussed in the development of the SwiftIOS replacement and are awaiting final agreements before announcing some exciting news.
The development of the Linux version of SwiftIOS is now scheduled to start at the beginning of Q2 2011. We have been developing some optimisations to the internal structure and execution paths to allow us to support UNOS 7, UNOS 8 and UNOS 9.3.3+ from the same basic load. In addition to this support for the current generation of USB based open panel touchscreens is now completed.
Overall SwiftIOS is now in a very good position and we currently have 3 open RFP's and are very optimistic that we will be getting at least one system delivered this year. Once the first system is delivered and proven we are expecting the level of confidence to rise and the install base to grow.
CRDS hardcopy replacements
The hardcopy replacement system for Charles Rivers systems using old printers has been expanded from TASC and Access based Iunstructor Stations to now include replacement printing systems for Rediffusion Simulation (TT&S/Thales) SGI based IOS.
Company Focus, yearly summary.
2010 has been a very exciting year with many technological developments keeping us challenged and busy. We are proud to have released Richard's PHP, Ajax, Jquery, Mysql web platform ZXAF expect more developments in 2011, specifically focusing on the reuse and integration with many frameworks and existing site structures as this is what we generally use it for, as well as whole sites.
The .NET world has been changing, as evidenced by .NET 4.0 releases and the much better support within VS2010 for some of the previously challenging parts of the entity framework.
WPF / Entity Framework
After considerable deliberation and research we have come to the conclusion that WPF is the way that we will choose to build applications for Windows, together with the Entity Framework for anything that requires data storage. The result of this is a re-write of our existing code migration for the integrated training platform (CBT) that is still under development. The benefits will be worthwhile, but the project will take longer as we rebuild the entire UI and data model.
Opensource Instructor Station
We have also commenced development of an IOS system, that we hope to make available as GPL or OpenSource. This is version two and is being written in C# using WPF. The previous attempt at this in C++ ended up being too complex and wasn't achieving our idealised goals. The beauty of developing like this is that we simply canned the development and recommenced. You can read about the top level design of our C#/WPF based Instructor Station
CRDS Simulator IOS Upgrades
We have a targetted set of CRDS flight simulator products and services and have developed two products specifically designed to extend the training life of a simulator by replacing older technology with current technology. Specifically a replacement IOS printer for Instructor Stations with Calcomp and Facit printers and a CRDS computer replacement.
We have performed upgrades and maintenance for GECapital Aviation Training, British Midland, Swiss Air Force, and Alaska Airlines.
Software Development
Since 1992 we have been providing custom software development to a number of clients worldwide. Our skillset covers C, C++, C#, .NET, VB.NET, Java, Borland Delphi, C++ Builder, VCL components, Visual Basic, Pascal, SQL Databases, CORBA, ISAPI, CGI, COM, DCOM, MFC, ATL, STL, Windows NT, Silicon Graphics, OpenVms.
