Versant Corporation, a leading provider of middleware infrastructure technology and Silverbreeze, a newly found company in South Africa, announced a distributor agreement for the Versant products and services in South Africa.
Silverbreeze, with headquarters in Pretoria, South Africa, was recently founded to provide software solutions and consulting services for distributed IT environments and mobile-e-solutions in medium to large-scale enterprises. Silverbreeze partners among others with CSIR icomtek, an Information Technology Research and Developer, and one of the prime influencers of the IT strategies of the major corporations in the Southern Africa region. One of their focus areas is mobile-e-solutions in the J2EE space.
"Companies are getting serious about J2EE, and are recognizing the advantages in ever more complex applications," said Adrian Jones, Versant VP, European operations. "This requires a combination of powerful, flexible technology and strong architectural, training and mentoring skills. This is precisely why Versant has chosen to work so closely with the leading implementers of J2EE architectures, and why they have chosen to work with us."
"We are pleased to add Versant to our portfolio of best-in-class solutions," said Louis Ferreira, Silverbreeze managing director. "By adding Versant solutions to our suite of products, we will be able to help our customers build high performance J2EE applications that, in turn, enable them to compete in the e-business world. The Versant product suite compliments our focus on mobile-e-solutions to the extend that it can also be utilized as an embedded technology within our Open Services Platform offering."
As part of the preparation for the South African market, Silverbreeze held two training opportunities in South Africa, which were facilitated by experts from Versant. Technical and sales training were provided to personnel from Silverbreeze, CSIR icomtek (www.csir.co.za) and T-systems (www.t-systems.co.za) to ensure adequate technical and product expertise for local product sales, implementation and support. For more information call (012) 844 2639 or visit www.silverbreeze.co.za
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Versant Corporation (NASDAQ: VSNT) has led the industry in highly scalable, reliable object management solutions for complex enterprise-level systems since its founding in 1988. The company's Object Data Management System (ODBMS) serves as the core database for fraud detection, yield management, real-time data collection and analysis, operation support systems (OSS) and other large-scale applications in the telecommunications, financial services, transportation and defense industries. Versant enJin and Versant Developer Suite, based on the same proven technology and seamless object persistence, help accelerate both the development cycle and the transaction speed for e-business and Internet infrastructure companies. For more information, call 510 789 1500 or visit www.versant.com.
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