‘Red Hat’ posts

Event Management System Wins 2009 Red Hat Innovation Award

Posted by Noreen Vincent on 05 Aug 2009

Today, Optaros and the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA) received the 2009 Red Hat Innovation Award in the JBoss Extensive Ecosystem Category. The award recognizes our work with the MCCA on their custom, open source event management system. The 3rd annual Red Hat Innovation Awards were given to 11 Red Hat customers and partners in | View post »

JasperSoft Solutions Used at MCCA with OptAM Delivering Tremendous Business Results

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 23 Oct 2008

In late 2007, MCCA engaged Optaros to build a comprehensive Event Management System that enables the MCCA staff and their partners to sell, plan and deliver events to their customers. The solution supports MCCA’s core business operations in the event management lifecycle including: Sales and Facility Booking Event and Exhibitor Space Setup and Service Order | View post »

CIO Open Source Interview Part 1 – Project Scope

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 07 Jul 2008

I had a chance recently to catch up with Steve Snyder, the CIO of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (an Optaros client). Steve was quite candid in his remarks. In this short clip, he describes the large scope of the project he is undertaking.

Ungerboeck, Concentrics Alternative at Massachusetts Convention Center

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 23 Apr 2008

Many industries have been ignored by the major commercial software vendors because of their unique requirements and smaller overall market size compared to larger industries. This has resulted in the survival of small, industry-specific software companies with decades-old technology platforms as the only commercial software alternative for organizations in these neglected verticals. The good news | View post »

SOA much love at JBoss World

Posted by Optaros on 16 Feb 2008

Nearly one thousand developers, partners, vendors, and other IT professionals met in Orlando this week to dive deep on JBoss technology. There were many valuable sessions, but the Seam Framework and SOA talks seemed to garner the biggest buzz. Somewhat awkwardly, the formal announcement for the new JBoss SOA Platform was made after the conference | View post »

Celebrate your love for JBoss in Orlando 2/13 – 2/15

Posted by Optaros on 08 Jan 2008

JBoss World is coming up next month. It's in Orlando February 13th – 15th. If you are interested in JBoss Portal, specifically, Thomas Heute lets you in on the Portal-specific sessions here. Much to my wife's chagrin ("You're going to a conference on Valentine's Day?!") I'll be at the conference. I'm looking forward to soaking | View post »

Optaros – a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 18 Dec 2007

Since its inception, Optaros has been working with Red Hat, JBoss and their products. Red Hat is clearly the leader in open source software and Optaros is the leader in helping enterprises leverage open source software in Next Generation Internet business solutions. Optaros’ unique skill set and positioning in the market resulted in Red Hat | View post »

Endeca: Under the covers

Posted by Optaros on 11 Dec 2007

The Endeca Partner Community solution ("EDeN") was assembled from content management, portal, blog, and search components. Specifically, Alfresco, Liferay, WordPress, and Endeca's Information Access Platform. Let's look at the responsibilities of each of these components and then a bit about how they integrate. Content Management — Alfresco The Alfresco repository holds all file-based content that | View post »