JBoss and Patni Establish Global Partnership to Drive Open Source Solutions

Business Wire,  March 20, 2006  

Tags: open source, partnership, Patni Computer Systems Ltd.

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ATLANTA -- JBoss(R), Inc., the Professional Open Source company, and Patni Computer Systems (NYSE: PTI, BSE: PATNI COMPUT, NSE: PATNI), a global IT services provider, today announced a global partnership to offer application development and migration services to enterprises deploying solutions on the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS(TM)). As a global JBoss-certified systems integrator, Patni will be fully equipped to provide the latest services and technologies based on the JEMS platform.

The partnership brings together the industry's leading open source middleware and expert IT services from a global leader to help enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs) realize the cost advantages of open source software. JBoss and Patni will implement a Go-to-Market program that accelerates enterprise migration to JEMS. In addition, Patni's ISV Business Unit will work with ISVs to embed JEMS technologies, providing all required product lifecycle services. Together, the companies offer an easy and affordable alternative to move to the JEMS platform. Certification ensures that all JEMS-based solutions and services delivered by Patni comply to the highest quality standards established by JBoss.

Patni has a strong legacy of working with commercial software and product vendors. As part of its commitment to develop core competency in JEMS products, Patni will establish a JEMS Center of Excellence. The CoE will focus on sharing methodologies, tools and best practices that can be leveraged across different engagements, while delivering best-of-breed JEMS-based solutions and services.

Speaking on the partnership Harish Bhat, Sr. Vice President and Head of the ISV Business Unit, Patni, said, "Open Source is now mainstream and ISVs need help incorporating open source software into their products. This partnership offers ISVs a compelling value proposition, combining our domain expertise with the industry's most popular open source application platform."

Tom Cooper, Vice President of Worldwide Channels, JBoss, Inc. commented, "The combination of JEMS backed by a global leader in IT services offers enterprises a compelling, cost-effective strategy for embedding and migrating to JBoss. Both Patni and JBoss take exceptional care of customers through superior services and uncompromised quality. This partnership will further fuel the adoption of open source in the enterprise."

JEMS is the market's leading open source platform for SOA (service-oriented architecture), offering a flexible, standards-based alternative to today's pricey, monolithic commercial software stacks. JEMS products can be used alone, mixed and matched or as a whole to build applications, processes and web services that drive business agility. JEMS includes JBoss Application Server, Hibernate(R), JBoss jBPM, JBoss Portal, JBoss Rules, JBoss Transactions, JBoss Eclipse IDE, JBoss Cache and Tomcat.

About Patni

Patni Computer Systems Limited (BSE: PATNI COMPUT, NSE: PATNI, NYSE: PTI) is a global IT Services provider servicing Global 2000 clients. Patni caters to its clients through its industry-focused practices, including insurance, manufacturing, financial services, telecommunications, and its technology-focused practices.

With employee strength of over 11,000 and multiple offshore development facilities across eight cities; Patni has 23 international offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Patni has registered revenues of US $450 million for the year 2005.

Patni's service offerings include application development, application maintenance and support, packaged software implementation, infrastructure management services, product engineering services, business process outsourcing and quality assurance services.

Committed to quality, Patni adds value to its client's businesses through well-established and structured methodologies, tools and techniques. Patni is an ISO 9001: 2000 certified and SEI-CMMi Level 5 organization, assessed enterprise wide at P-CMM Level 3. In keeping with its focus on continuous process improvements, Patni adopts Six Sigma practices as an integral part of its quality and process frameworks.

For more information on Patni, please visit www.patni.com.

About JBoss, Inc.

JBoss, Inc., the global leader in open source middleware, offers simply the better way to transform businesses through a service-oriented architecture (SOA). As the market's leading open source platform for SOA, JEMS (JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite) delivers proven performance in mission-critical environments and is backed by world-class support and service--all at a dramatically lower cost structure than proprietary systems. Fortune 500 companies such as Continental Airlines, MCI and Starwood Hotels & Resorts rely on Professional Open Source from JBoss, Inc. Certified partners offering JEMS and JBoss Subscriptions include Dell, HP, NEC, Novell, Sun Microsystems and Unisys. For more information, visit www.jboss.com.