SpikeSource teams up with Microsoft

BANGALORE: SpikeSource, provider of business-ready open source applications, today announced plans to work together with Microsoft Corp. to certify all of SpikeSource’s SpikeIgnited solutions on the Microsoft Windows platform.

“A significant number of enterprise customers with open source applications run those applications on Windows server today,” said Bill Hilf, general manager of platform strategy at Microsoft Corp. “Today’s successful companies are choosing the Microsoft platform. SpikeSource’s decision provides its customers with more flexibility and increased platform interoperability and further highlights the wide spectrum of customers taking advantage of and deriving value from the Microsoft platform.”

“As companies look for new ways to compete in the global economy they are deploying open source solutions that offer enterprise-class functionality on the Windows platform at a lower price point,” said Kim Polese, chief executive officer of SpikeSource.

SpikeSource recently shipped a Windows-certified SpikeIgnited product to NEC, whose customers have been asking for open source solutions that are certified on both Linux and Windows, and began shipping today a Windows-certified Drupal SpikeIgnited solution.