ActiveGrid and Optaros Form Strategic Alliance to Bring Open Source Grid Computing to Enterprise Applications.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and BOSTON -- Partnership to Combine ActiveGrid Software and Optaros Consulting and Solutions for Enterprise IT Open Source Users 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 Apache (əpăch`ē), Native North Americans of the Southwest composed of six culturally related groups. They speak a language that has various dialects and belongs to the Athabascan branch of the Nadene linguistic stock (see Native American , My-SQL, PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution. ) software stack (1) A stack that is implemented in memory rather than in hardware registers. See stack. (2) A generic reference to a set of system programs or a set of application programs that form a complete system. See 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 XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. 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 See LAMP. ," has been growing rapidly in usage, it can be difficult to scale as applications grow. The ActiveGrid application server enables deployment of composite applications In computing, the term composite application expresses a perspective of software engineering that defines an application built by combining multiple services. People often compare composite applications to mashups. across a horizontally-scaled grid of commodity computers. This "transaction grid" computing computing - computer 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 (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "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 Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. 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 grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as well as high availability by employing multiple computers—typically personal 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 Commodity computing is computing done on commodity computers as opposed to supermicrocomputers or boutique computers. Commodity computers are computer systems manufactured by multiple vendors, incorporated components based on open standards. . Please see www.activegrid.com for more information. About Optaros Optaros, Inc. (www.optaros.com) is a venture capital-funded consulting and systems integration firm that helps large enterprises use open source software to reduce the cost of commercial software and rapidly build high-quality, cost-effective and more flexible business applications. Based in Cambridge, Mass., the firm provides a range of services necessary for enterprises to maximize the benefits of open source software -- to replace existing costly proprietary software or to build new business applications. Having launched two of the most successful IT service companies of the last two major shifts in technology, Optaros' management brings substantial expertise to creating a company that can help clients fully adopt new technology models and platforms. ActiveGrid(TM) is either a trademark or registered trademark of ActiveGrid, Inc. All other product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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