The Institute of Computer Language at TU-Wien, Faculty of Computer Science, performs teaching and research in the areas of implementation, verification, application of programming languages. Main research areas comprise implementation techniques for efficient interpreters and compilers, development tools for embedded systems, data flow analysis, type systems, and concurrent programming.

A.o. Univ. Prof. Dr. Eva Kühn is the head of the "Space Based Computing" group at this institute . The objective of this group is to develop, establish and promote an innovative architecture paradigm for parallel and distributed programming that is based on the principles of a virtually shared data space. Current activities concern the development of Open Source software in this area. Main research issues concern agile middleware architectures, software development methodologies, and collaboration patterns with a special focus on SBC.

underground_8 is the producer of Gibraltar firewall, a professional security gateway product line. To this day, Gibraltar is used by over 1000 companies, organizations and private users to secure their IT networks. Gibraltar firewall is based on Linux and other open source components and can be executed either from a live CD-ROM or USB image or is shipped pre-installed on custom hardware appliances. With developing the Gibraltar firewall products, underground_8 establishes itself with expert knowledge in all fields of IT security, network protocol analysis, and embedded systems development.

Xcoordination (www.xcoordination.com) is a spin-off of TU-Wien funded by AWS (Austria Wirtschaftsservice) (Programme "Pre-seed"), Universitäres Gründerservice Wien GmbH (INiTS), and Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft GmbH (FFG).

Xcoordination’s vision is to help people and enterprises to cooperate and communicate across borders and continents to manage information in a much more efficient way. Xcoordination intends to facilitate the complexity of these software solutions. Xcoordination’s core competency lies in providing infra-structure technologies for parallel and distributed applications characterized by a high level of collaboration. More specifically, Xcoordination provides software developers with software components that significantly reduce development time and costs.

The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) is the national funding institution for applied industrial research in Austria. We offer a comprehensive range of services for Austrian enterprises, research institutions and researchers – from the management of public funding programmes to consulting services in all phases of technology development and innovation, from support for integration into European research programmes and networks to the promotion of Austria"s interests at the European and the international level.