ActiveGrid and Optaros Form Strategic Alliance to Bring Open Source Grid Computing to Enterprise Applications
Partnership to Combine ActiveGrid Software and Optaros Consulting and Solutions for Enterprise IT Open Source Users
SAN FRANCISCO and BOSTON — (BUSINESS WIRE) — June 13, 2005 — ActiveGrid, Inc., a commercial open source software company, and Optaros, an open source software consulting and integration firm, today announced a joint partnership to advance the LAMP (Linux, Apache, My-SQL, PHP) software stack into the Global 2000. The strategic alliance includes areas of joint technology collaboration as well as joint go-to-market activities.
ActiveGrid has created an innovative open source application server and native XML rapid application development environment that enables LAMP software technology to deliver more reliable, higher performance software applications. While LAMP based software, often called “the LAMP stack,” has been growing rapidly in usage, it can be difficult to scale as applications grow. The ActiveGrid application server enables deployment of composite applications across a horizontally-scaled grid of commodity computers. This "transaction grid" computing model simplifies application development and delivers unprecedented levels of reliability, scalability, flexibility and adaptability for mainstream business applications.
“Optaros understands how to help large enterprises capture the great value of using open source software to more efficiently design, build, and deploy new business applications and we are delighted that they will be creating a focus on ActiveGrid,” said Peter Yared ActiveGrid´s CEO. “ActiveGrid provides a new level of power and reliability to LAMP software and we're looking forward to working with Optaros on helping enterprise customers solve their LAMP performance and reliability issues.”
Optaros will use the ActiveGrid Application Builder and ActiveGrid Grid Application Server in engagements with clients. “At the open source infrastructure level, our clients are looking for ways to architect, build, and deploy applications that will scale to meet their business needs. We see ActiveGrid as leading the way with their new application server for these technologies, providing new ways to scale and manage applications as circumstances change. ActiveGrid has created an approach that supports both standards and today´s real production challenges,” said Dave Gynn, Practice Lead of Optaros´ Application Infrastructure Practice.
“Today open source software gives organizations licensing flexibility and costs savings as application usage grows and systems configurations change,” said Bob Gett, CEO and President of Optaros. “ActiveGrid and their new application server take this a step further with new technology that simplifies large application configuration and management. Making the power of grid computing easily available, and doing this based on industry standards such as XML, provide new options to our enterprise IT clients.”
About ActiveGrid
ActiveGrid, a commercial open source software company, has created the Grid Application Server, a next-generation enterprise development and deployment platform. ActiveGrid´s native XML application platform harnesses the proven open source LAMP stack to enable organizations to deploy and scale business applications across “transaction grids” of horizontally scaled commodity computers. The ActiveGrid solution gives organizations the ability to rapidly integrate existing backend systems to create new composite service driven applications, customize transactions at runtime, and reap the economic benefits of open source commodity computing. Please see www.activegrid.com for more information.
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About Optaros
Optaros is a consulting and systems integration firm that helps enterprises solve IT business problems by providing services and solutions that maximize the benefits of open source software. Bringing together experts in creating enterprise IT solutions and experts in the power of open source, Optaros plans and builds business systems that give you better value today and increased control in the future. For more about Optaros, go to www.optaros.com