We have strong industrial links through the industry-sponsored research we undertake, and in particular the technology-transfer activities of The Centre for Software Reliability. CSR operates the Safety-Critical Systems Club and the Software Reliability & Metrics Club, originally sponsored by the DTI but now self-financing. These clubs have around 3,000 members. CSR organises about 10 meetings each year at which topics in safety and reliability are presented. Six issues of a newsletter are distributed to the membership each year.

In November 1998, Professor Shrivastava and the Distributed Systems Research Group set up a spin-off company to provide a commercial exploitation path for their middleware technologies that came out of the Arjuna distributed transaction system developed by the Group. The company was bought by Bluestone Software, Inc., a leader in business-to-Web and wireless technologies, for over $13M. In 2001, Hewlett-Packard bought Bluestone for $500M, and the original Arjuna company operated as HP-Arjuna Labs, a part of HP's middleware division. After a merger between HP and Compaq that led to substantial reorganisation of HP, Arjuna became independent again. Now based within the University campus, Arjuna Technologies (www.Arjuna.com) is a centre of excellence in transaction technologies and is focusing on building products to support reliable Web Services-based applications. In 2000, Professor Shrivastava and his team received the British Computer Society Technical Award for Arjuna.