Agilent Technologies Collaborates with Persistent Systems for Multivendor System Interoperability

Agilent Technologies has expanded its commitment to open systems for chromatography data systems (CDS) by announcing a collaboration with Persistent Systems and by joining the DriverCentral.net instrument driver portal.

Control for multivendor instrumentation is a core functionality of the former's EZChrom Elite CDS and OpenLAB enterprise platforms, with support for more than 20 vendors.

DriverCentral.net is an independent device-driver portal for analytical instrument driver purchase.

The former is collaborating with the latter in three main ways:

* Transferring many of its non-Agilent instrument drivers to Persistent Systems for further development and support;
* Providing documentation on its RC.NET technology to convert legacy drivers to the new standard and develop new drivers based on RC.NET; and
* Joining DriverCentral.net to make its own analytical instrument drivers available through the portal.