Also on the event agenda is - the launch of the Ingres and Red Hat integrated technology platform. Industry expert Paolo Malinverno from Gartner will be presenting a key note highlighting the market potential of enterprise open source software stacks and will demonstrate the opportunities and challenges presented by this approach.
According to Bertram Mandel, managing director, CEMEA and vice president, sales and services, Ingres, "Together with Red Hat, we are delighted to be able to offer existing and future ISV partners an enterprise open source platform - and support them every step of the way, from the development stage right through to productive implementation at the end customer!"
Ingres is a member of Red Hat Exchange (RHX), a programme through which Red Hat showcases enterprise-ready open source solutions with its ISV partners. Red Hat and Ingres are combining their enterprise solutions in order to provide partners with a powerful solution stack through the combination of three core components, including the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system, Ingres Database and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Combined, the solutions will offer ISVs a high-performance, cost-effective and solution-independent platform on which they can base further applications tailored to the specific requirements of customer projects.
The open source business model of both companies allows partners to offer their customers significant cost advantages. The platform is solution independent and allows partners to integrate additional software components in the stack. In this way, they can quickly and effectively migrate their applications to a high-availability platform or launch complete innovations with a considerably faster time to market.
"Our close co-operation with ISVs is just another key step toward further promoting open source solutions, particularly in the enterprise environment," stated Petra Heinrich, director partner, sales and alliances, EMEA, Red Hat. "The combination of our components with the Ingres enterprise-class database offers partners a significant competitive edge and helps them successfully deploy their projects, even when IT budgets are tight." |
