JBoss launches support services in India

HYDERABAD: JBoss Inc., an open-source based Application Server Provider (ASP), today announced the launch of JBoss support services in India.



The company is looking at fostering partnerships with large system integrators, ISVs to establish a strong developer community base.



Brad Murdoch, vice president of services, JBoss Inc. said, "India is a strategic market for us and we are hoping to encourage the adoption of open-source tools in a big way. To begin with, public sector units are quite promising from a business development perspective." JBoss Application Server has around 8,000 to 20,000 active user base globally.



The ASP is aiming at having more than four to five system integrators and increasing the revenues from India from 8 to 10 percent by 2007.



The company is looking at undertaking product development from India in the long run. "India has a vast developer community and we want to establish a strong community base here that could be later used for further development. Globally, we have around 3,50,000 registered developers," said Murdoch.



Coinciding with the launch of JBoss Services, Hyderabad-based SoftPro Systems Ltd, an IT solutions provider, the only authorized certification partner for JBoss Inc., in India also expressed its commitment in training and certifying professionals.



Venkata Rao Mallineni, president & CEO, SoftPro Systems Ltd, said, "According to Gartner, by 2008, 80 percent of the Fortune 2000 companies will directly use OSS applications. So there exists a huge market. And we are bullish on offering training and certification to developers."