SpringSource Announces Strategic Partnership with Leading Government IT Solutions Provider

Business Wire, August 20, 2008

SpringSource Teams with Carahsoft to Bring Spring and SpringSource Products and Services to Federal, State and Local Government Agencies

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- SpringSource, the company behind Spring, the de facto standard in enterprise Java, and a leading provider of infrastructure software, today announced a strategic partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corporation, the trusted government IT solutions provider.

Under the terms of the partnership, Carahsoft will resell SpringSource products and services to the public sector for the first time. SpringSource Enterprise and Application Platform software offerings, as well as commercial support offerings around Apache Tomcat and other Apache technologies, will be offered under numerous contract programs, including the Federal GSA. With the award of the GSA Schedule, Carahsoft will operate as a Master Government Partner and help bring SpringSource products to government customers utilizing Carahsoft's network of open source focused resellers and integrators.

"Spring is widely used in the government and SpringSource commercial product offerings are gaining widespread interest," said Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource. "With Carahsoft's proven expertise selling to the government, SpringSource will continue to expand its footprint in this marketplace. The combination of simple, flexible and powerful Spring-based solutions and popular Apache-based technologies will help the public sector build, run and manage enterprise Java applications more effectively."

"We are pleased to have SpringSource join our portfolio of open source technology companies alongside Red Hat and MySQL to provide increased value to federal, state and local government agencies," said Craig Abod, CEO of Carahsoft. "By utilizing Spring and SpringSource enterprise solutions, we are able offer our clients and reseller partners world-class, best-of-breed solutions while simultaneously lowering overall cost of ownership for their IT environments."

To learn more about Spring and SpringSource in the public sector, join SpringSource and Carahsoft for a free webinar titled, "Optimizing Spring Solutions in the Public Sector," presented by Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource and the Father of Spring, on August 27, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. PDT/1:00 p.m. EDT. To register, please visit: http://www.carahsoft.com/events/springsource/08-27-08/ springsource08-27-08.php?ref=springsource. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

About SpringSource Enterprise and Application Platform

With SpringSource Enterprise, Carahsoft's government customers will have access to the software, services and technical support necessary to develop and run Spring-powered enterprise applications more productively, securely and with the greatest uptime. SpringSource Enterprise provides comprehensive application monitoring and management capabilities, next-generation application development tools and advanced database integration capabilities. The SpringSource Application Platform contains a powerful and highly flexible enterprise Java application server that provides a dramatically simpler alternative to legacy application servers and redefines the way in which Java applications are deployed and run.

About SpringSource

SpringSource is the company behind Spring, the de facto standard in enterprise Java. SpringSource is a leading provider of enterprise Java infrastructure software, and delivers enterprise class software, support and services to help organizations utilize Spring and, through its acquisition of Covalent, manage infrastructure technologies from the Apache Software Foundation. Nearly half of the Global 2000, including many of the world's largest financial institutions, retailers, manufacturers, healthcare, technology and public sector clients are SpringSource customers. For more information visit: www.springsource.com

About Carahsoft (www.carahsoft.com)

Carahsoft Technology Corp. is the trusted Government IT solutions provider, combining technological expertise with a thorough understanding of the government procurement process to help federal, state and local government agencies select and implement the best solution at the best possible value. As a top-ranked GSA Schedule Contract holder, Carahsoft is the largest government partner and serves as the master government aggregator for many of its best-of-breed vendors. The company's dedicated Solutions Divisions support proactive sales, marketing and delivery of Symantec, Storage Solutions, VMware, Adobe, Open Source, HR, HP Software, Intelligence, and SAP.

Carahsoft is consistently recognized by its partners as a top revenue producer and is listed among the industry's fastest growing firms by VARBusiness, CRN, Inc., Washington Technology, and the Washington Business Journal (#1 Fastest Growing Company in 2007). In 2008, Carahsoft received the Government VAR State and Local Solution Provider of the Year Award and the VAR Business Top Revenue Generator Award.