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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 16, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 24
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Systems/Enterprise:
CORE DEVELOPERS NETWORK LAUNCHES
AS NEW CONSULTANCY
Core Developers Network -- a new consultancy formed by several of the
leaders
in the open-source Java community -- has announced the formation of the
company at JavaOne (San Francisco). With a specific focus on the corporate
Enterprise and unique, targeted expertise in the creation, execution and
development of mission-critical open-source projects and infrastructure, Core
Developers Network represents a significant new player in the burgeoning
software services market. Offices throughout North America, Europe and Oceania
allow multiple congruency and support for international projects.
The partners in Core Developers Network have demonstrated time and again
their
technical skills as lead programmers and independent contributors to some of
the highest-profile open-source projects, including JBoss, Jetty, Apache
Jakarta, XDoclet and several others. All partners have "cvs commit privileges"
-- the authority to make code changes and updates in the Open Source
Community. The organization's charter is to provide a commercial
infrastructure enabling open source contributors to deliver their professional
expertise to the marketplace, independent of their contributions to open
source projects.
Through Core Developers Network, these consultants can now offer a wide
range
of services, including professional documentation, software integration,
training and expert support to the Enterprise on these and other projects. The
consultants of Core Developers Network have been involved in some of the most
complex Enterprise-level projects over the last decade and have received the
highest acclaim from their customers.
"lastminute.com (www.lastminute.com)
is one of the leading online retailers offering lifestyle products and
services, and is ranked as the number one online travel agency in Europe.
Working in partnership with Core Developer Network, we have been able to
leverage the world of OpenSource to deliver optimized solutions for our
business. A JBoss cluster now runs a significant part of our Web site and,
with the help of Core Developers Network, we have a programme of work to
migrate the other parts to OpenSource based solutions as well. Looking to the
future, we expect to work closely with Core Developers Network on this and
other OpenSource initiatives," said Simon Salt-Cowell, Head of Project
Management for lastminute.com.
"It is our hope that providing best-of-breed service options related to
open
source projects will accelerate the further integration of open source into
the Enterprise and lead to even greater adoption of these core technologies,"
said Dain Sundstrom, Partner at Core Developers Network. "We look forward to
welcoming both new customers and new Partners to Core Developers Network and
are already getting down to business for our first assignments."
Further details on the company's capabilities, members and services
portfolio may be found at www.coredevelopers.net/.
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