SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., January 30, 2006 — ActiveGrid, Inc., the Enterprise Web 2.0™ company, today announced that it will bundle IBM DB2 Express-C with the popular ActiveGrid Software development platform. The addition of DB2 will give ActiveGrid customers maximum flexibility in their choice of dataserver, as they utilize the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python) application infrastructure to reduce the cost and complexity of developing rich user interface, Internet, service-oriented applications.
"Our clients are increasingly interested in exploring LAMP as a cost-effective, fast and easy development platform," said Bob Picciano, VP of Databases at IBM. "With this announcement today, IBM and ActiveGrid offers customers a robust dataserver platform for building their service-oriented applications."
"IBM is a champion of both Linux and Open Source," said Peter Yared, CEO of ActiveGrid. "And we are excited that they are the first to recognize that large corporations may favor the use of LAMP to build SOA applications, while fully integrating the DB2 enterprise dataserver they have grown to trust."
Enterprises are increasingly choosing open source LAMP as the preferred platform for writing service-oriented applications and integrating back-end services. ActiveGrid is the industry's most mature "rapid application development" (RAD) environment for the LAMP platform — taking a position similar to that of Visual Basic and PowerBuilder when they revolutionized the last wave of enterprise client/server application development.
ActiveGrid is the fastest-growing and most powerful solution for building and deploying service-oriented applications that integrate with existing services and dataservers in the enterprise. ActiveGrid allows developers to build rich user interface AJAX applications that are service-aware, and service-connected to communicate with Web services natively.
"Most Fortune 1000 enterprises are using Linux, Apache, PHP and Python — but most Fortune 1000 enterprises are not necessarily using an open source dataserver," said Anne Thomas Manes, Vice President and Research Director at Burton Group. "ActiveGrid and IBM's partnership is a wake-up call for all of the large enterprises out there that are interested in running some of their IT on open source, while keeping best-of-breed proprietary solutions for others. It's no longer an all-or-nothing proposition."
ActiveGrid will seamlessly support IBM DB2 Express-C in its Enterprise Web 2.0 platform and IBM and ActiveGrid will promote the joint solution with their respective user communities.
About ActiveGrid
ActiveGrid, the Enterprise Web 2.0 company, provides a service-oriented application platform built on the lightweight architecture of the proven LAMP software infrastructure stack. ActiveGrid Software simplifies and speeds the development of service-oriented applications that weave together existing enterprise systems into new rich web applications and services. ActiveGrid Software applications can be flexibly deployed on grids of commodity machines or at virtually any ISP.
Please see http://www.activegrid.com for more information.
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