Posts tagged with open source

OSSCube Sponsored “OSSCamp” To Be Held During 5th And 6th September At NSIT, Delhi

August 31st, 2009

For Immediate Release

New Delhi, August 24th, 2009
India’s largest unconference on Open Source – OSSCamp – is to be held during 5th and 6th September 2009 at NSIT, Delhi. This OSSCube sponsored and promoted event will see IT professionals, enthusiasts and students come together to discuss and shape the future of open source in India. This community driven unconference, popularly called the “Camp,” is targeted specifically at promoting FOSS implementation and development in India.

This year’s event includes discussions and talks from experts on topics ranging from Programming OpenOffice.org to Social Network (Open Source). A major highlight of the event is the session by Bryan House (Director, Marketing) from Acquia on “Acquia: Accelerating Drupal Growth” and the session by Adobe on their open source RIA Framework – Adobe Flex. Other major sponsor of the event includes Linux for you, Computer Society of India, Bigadda and NSIT.

Elaborating on the scope of the camp, Mr. Vineet Agrawal, Sr. Manager, Community and Alliances, OSSCube, said, “We have always believed in encouraging local communities and have helped them through promotion and participation. OSSCamps always keep us focused and on our toes with the latest in technology.” With a vision of getting the community even closer and express their freedom and expertise on the subject, OSSCamp Delhi, had also introduced the ‘We are Free’ blogging contest – a call to the entire open source community and the campers, to pitch in with their contributions. The blog also promises to be the central hub for documenting the progress of open source in India.

The Delhi event promises to be a fun-filled event with participations from across the nation. The community is very focussed with much emphasis on hands-on sessions, demos and social sandboxes. To create high value for the participants, OSSCamp have set up demos on a wide range of topics from Go Green, Save Power to getting started with Scala. “These community initiatives and communal spirit, where everyone is working with us have inspired us to contribute in all possible ways.” adds Mr. Agrawal.

About OSSCamp
OSSCamp is a unique, thriving, and vibrant community of open source enthusiasts in India. The community revolves around “unconferences” popularly known as Camps. It is India’s largest unconference on open source bringing together passionate technologists and enthusiasts under one roof for sharing best practices, experiences, and knowledge.
At a Camp, we love to cross-talk, huddle together, raise some noise, celebrate technology, argue over how Linux is the coolest OS ever made, fight on our favourite programming languages, discuss stuff, and what not!

About OSSCube
OSSCube is a Global Open Source Enterprise for Open Source Solutions with expertise in outsourced product development. OSSCube has partnered with leading technology development companies such as Sensiolabs, Acquia, SugarCRM, Drupal, Zend, MySQL, Ingres, Moodlerooms and Continuent, to provide most innovative and effective solutions.
OSSCube has served 50+ industry leaders including Intel, Google, Yahoo, Trend Micro, LinkedIn, Bigadda.com across four continents. Some of the solutions developed by them include Enterprise Products, Web 2.0 applications, Social Networking sites, eCommerce applications and Widgets, Games and Mobile applications. OSSCube offers flexible working models of Onsite, Offsite, Full time, Timeshare and Dedicated Offshore Delivery Centre. With over a decade of experience and 100+ team members, OSSCube delivers solutions cost-effectively and on time.

Contact:
OSSCube LLC
404 Shakespeare St,
Morrisville (North Carolina) – 27560,

E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: 1-888-967-7282
Website: http://osscube.com

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ERP.com Offers ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning, Software Trial Licenses For ERP Practitioners Interested in Testing The Implementation of Large Enterprise Systems Applications

August 16th, 2009

Los Angeles, CA, April 21st, 2009 – ERP (www.erp.com), the leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) community website that brings together enterprise, customer relationship management (CRM) and materials requirement planning (MRP) practitioners with enterprise software, hardware and services providers, announced its offering of an SAP “try before you buy” limited developer license for enterprise professionals looking to go a few levels deeper than software demos to test integration and implementation compatibilities with legacy systems and other application connectivity.

About ERP.com

Based in Los Angeles, California, ERP.com was founded in early 2007 by former entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 executives from Systems House, PepsiCo, InterActiveCorp (IAC), and Lucent Technologies. It is a professional community site focused on offering the most up to date and relevant information on enterprise resource planning and a forum for ERP practitioners to post content, insights and reviews, and network for ideas and information within the ERP community.

ERP.com is focused on bringing valuable tools and information to the ERP community; the practitioner, consultant, and the applications to help make all parties more productive and successful in their business endeavors. The ability to get in to the roots of a complex enterprise system is a great benefit in determining whether a complex ERP implementation will be a success. “In the dozens of enterprise implementations and integrations I have worked on, they were all more complicated than originally anticipated. Having access from a developers level to play around with how the system will work with the company’s current applications is a great help in reducing the unknowns” says Michael Lindsay, an enterprise consultant for Lucent technologies.

As well as the new software trials, ERP.com also provides user generated reviews of products as well as an open forum to post products and open jobs and consulting gigs in the ERP space on the site.

What is ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning?

Enterprise Resource Planning is an company-wide IT system designed to coordinate all business processes, resources, and information, such as manufacturing, inventory, sales, marketing, accounting, finance, logistics and administration. ERP originated as an extension of MRP (material requirement planning) and is now recognized as a business solution covering all basic functions of an enterprise, regardless of the organization’s business, size or charter. Non-manufacturing businesses, non-profit organizations and governments now all use ERP systems.

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ERP.com – ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning, Community Site Partners with Conference Guru.

August 7th, 2009

ERP (www.erp.com), the leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) community website bringing together ERP, enterprise resource planning, practitioners with ERP software, and services providers, announced its partnership with Conference Guru, a leader in conference tracking and exclusive conference discounts. With this partnership, ERP.com will list conferences targeted to ERP professionals looking for specific technology conferences that will address their information, business development and networking needs at a discounted price.

About ERP.com

Based in Los Angeles, California, ERP.com was founded in early 2007 by former entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 executives from Systems House, PepsiCo, InterActiveCorp (IAC), and Lucent Technologies. It is a professional community site focused on offering the most up to date and relevant information on enterprise resource planning and a forum for ERP practitioners to post content, insights and reviews, and network for ideas and information within the ERP community.

ERP.com is focused on bringing relevant tools, information, and deals to the ERP community which is comprised of the ERP practitioner, consultant, and vendor to bridge collaboration, communication and information. The ability to get the right forums and conferences in front of ERP professionals is critical for sharing information and business networking. “Conferences is where I get most of my information on what new products and technologies are out there and which ones will impact my business. It’s great to get that information and the discount on the conferences is an added bonus, especially in this business environment and my tighter budget” says Rob Squires, Senior Sales Manager at HP.

In addition to the latest ERP related conferences and events, ERP.com will also provide exclusive Conference Guru only deals for all conferences in the technology sector as well.

What is ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning?

Enterprise Resource Planning is a company-wide IT system designed to coordinate all business processes, resources, and information, such as manufacturing, inventory, sales, marketing, accounting, finance, logistics and administration. ERP originated as an extension of MRP (material requirement planning) and is now recognized as a business solution covering all basic functions of an enterprise, regardless of the organization’s business, size or charter. Non-manufacturing businesses, non-profit organizations and governments now all use ERP systems.

For more information, please visit: ERP or contact us at [email protected]

For sales and partnership opportunities contact: [email protected]

For affiliate marketing and PR questions contact: [email protected]

OSSCube is now SensioLabs Training partner to provide Symfony training worldwide

May 26th, 2009

Paris, Morrisville, New Delhi ( Prfriend ) May 26, 2009 – Sensio Labs, a company founded by creators of Symfony PHP Development Framework, Fabien Potencier, Gregory Pascal, and Samuel Potencier today announced OSSCube, one of the leading Global Open Source Company with expertise in Outsource Product Development, as Sensio Labs Official Partner.

Under this agreement OSSCube is authorized to conduct official Symfony Training Programs and offer Sensio Labs Authorized Developer certification (to be launched soon).

“Symfony is one of the best PHP development framework that is available. Our engineers simply love developing web applications on symphony. Sensio Labs partnership gave us access to resources, insights and roadmap of symphony.” Said Lavanya Rastogi, Co-founder & President of OSSCube.

“Having delivered large scale enterprise web applications & products on Symfony and trained engineers on best practices of Symfony; Sensio Labs OSSCube partnership was most logical step to deliver best of breed Symfony services and make symfony even more popular amongst PHP Developers.” said Sonali Minocha, Co-founder & Director-Training of OSSCube “The partnership also ensures that OSSCube engineers are trained and certified on Symfony PHP framework by Sensio Labs.”

About Sensio Labs

Sensio labs is the sponsor company of the PHP Symfony framework. Sensio Labs is a French Web Agency well known for its innovative ideas on web development.  Founded in 1998 by Fabien Potencier, Gregory Pascal, and Samuel Potencier, Sensio created popular Symfony framework that aims to simply development of complex web applications.  Sensiolabs provides consulting, services, formation and expertise about Symfony and Open Source technologies. For more information, please visit www.sensiolabs.com

About Symfony

Symfony is a web application framework for PHP projects.  It aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.  The very small number of prerequisites makes symfony easy to install on any configuration; you just need Linux or Windows with a web server and PHP installed. It is compatible with almost every database system. In addition, it has a very small overhead, so the benefits of the framework don’t come at the cost of an increase of hosting costs.  For more information, please visitwww.symfony-project.org/

About OSSCube

OSSCube is A Global Open Source Enterprise for Open Source Solutions with expertise in outsourced product development. OSSCube is dedicated to providing solutions to businesses by leveraging the power of open source software, solutions and technologies. OSSCube has partnered with leading technology development companies such as Sensiolabs, Acquia, SugarCRM, Zend, MySQL, Ingres, Moodlerooms and Continuent, to provide most innovative and effective solutions.

OSSCube has served 50+ industry leaders such as Intel, Google, Yahoo, Trend Micro, LinkedIn, Bigadda.com across four continents. Some of the solutions developed by them include Enterprise Products, Web 2.0 applications, Social Networking sites, ECommerce applications, and Widgets, Games and Mobile applications. Depending on the needs, OSSCube offers flexible working models of Onsite, Offsite, Full time, Timeshare and Dedicated Offshore Delivery Centre.

OSSCube specializes in Symfony Development and Training. OSSCube has successfully developed small, large and complex web applications in symphony for its client world over.  Recently OSSCube engineers were involved in migrating One of the large Dating Portal of Australia and one of the largest travel portal of India from simple PHP to a symphony framework based platform.  For more information, please visit OSSCube

Contact:
OSSCube,
B- 49, Sector- 63,
Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar – 201301,
Uttar Pradesh
Phone: +91-120-4275761/3
Email: [email protected]

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OSSCube’s Sonali to present at International PHP Conference at Berlin-May 25-27

May 15th, 2009

Research Triangle Park, New Delhi, India ( Prfriend ) May 14, 2009 -Sonali Minocha, from OSSCube, has been invited to participate at the International PHP Conference at Berlin where she will be taking a session on MySQL Cluster Workshop and a half day workshop  on MySQL Performance Tuning & Optimization Capsule.  The conference will be held in Berlin, Germany from 25 to 27th May, and focus upon connecting the world through the usage of PHP.

Sonali, a well known International MySQL Trainer & Consultant will conduct a session on MySQL Performance Tuning & Optimization Capsule and a half day workshop on  MySQL Cluster at the International PHP Conference 2009, Spring Edition, which is one of the  biggest events on PHP with an impressive lineup of speakers on a number of topics on the PHP realm.

Sonali will conduct a session on MySQL Performance Tuning & Optimization Capsule which will be intended for PHP, Ruby and Java developers on performance tuning and optimization of MySQL. She will cover the the deadly mistakes to be avoided and will take real life examples of optimizing application many times. She will also conduct a half day workshop on MySQL Cluster which is going to be a hands on training to setup MySQL cluster and effectively administer it. She will provide tips on fine tuning the cluster and on helpful tools around the MySQL Cluster.

The event is organized by Software & Support, one of the most innovative publishing houses in the IT sector.  The advisory board of the event consists of Björn Schotte, the Editor-in-Chief of the PHP Magazine and Head of Chair of the International PHP Conferences, Sebastian Bergmann, long-time contributor to various PHP projects, including PHP itself and the creator of PHPUnit and other Open Source tools and Robert Lippert, the editor of the PHP Magazine. Some of the other speakers in the conference are Lukas Smith (Who is a release manager for PHP 5.3 and profilic contributor to php) Sebastian Bergmann, C. Arntz, core developer in times of PHP4 and an active member in the community., David Zülke is the Lead Developer of Agavi, an open source MVC framework for PHP, and CEO of Bitextender GmbH.

The conference intends to explore the innovations coming with the next generation of PHP and discuss the the topic of connecting the world through the usage of PHP. The International PHP Conference is one of the most popular PHP conference outside US and is known for quality technical talks by experts.

About Sonali
Sonali is a well known MySQL Consultant & Developer. Sonali is cofounder of OSSCube, a leading Open Source Company specializing in offshore Product Development. Sonali is Asia’s first Woman Certified MySQL DBA, MySQL Certified Cluster DBA and India’s first MySQL authorized instructor. Sonali is instrumental in setting up clusters, optimizing performances of large portals and delivering MySQL training to several Fortune 500 companies. Currently Sonali is authoring a book on MySQL Clusters. Sonali actively

Perception System maintains variety of Open Source Technology

May 13th, 2009

05-12-2009

In simplest terms Open source is code/applications that are made available for general use without cost/proprietary issues involved. To be successful and to stay in the competitive market is ever changing business world, a business should be such that, it can be able to adapt modern changes that should be applied. Open source web development is improved Ecommerce solutions for web development. There are various Open Source Technologies are available in the market that offers significant benefits to emerging companies.

Perception System work with a hand picked group of world leading software and development providers to offer a range of powerful ecommerce solutions that provide zero risk, cost effective ecommerce functionality. Rather than the expensive and risky approach of building a bespoke site from scratch First Rate uses a proven base system and simply plugs in proven modules as required. Perception System offer the best services at a cost effective pricing resulting in quick Return on Investment (ROI). Perception system maintain a variety of Open Source Technology some of them are, Magneto, osCommerce, Joomla, Zen Cart is an open source ,X-Cart, WordPress ,phpBB, Drupal ,CS-Cart etc. Below are some vital features of an Open Source solution that maintain by Perception System.

CMS (Content Management System) is one of the most commonly, frequently used in the current market and in a great demand, Open Source Technology. CMS includes various features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization.

Drupal is another powerful Open Source Content Management System that allows you to classify tag content. Drupal is a free and open source modular framework and content management system (CMS) written in PHP. Drupal was designed for community-based Web sites and has strong user role and access manage functionality. For more details about various Open Source Technologies Log on to http://perceptionsystem.com/open-source-integration-customization.html

OSScamps take a step back from converting to a traditional conference

April 14th, 2009

New Delhi, India ( Prfriend ) April 14, 2009 – OSScamps are unconferences where there are no audiences; everyone is a participant, who are also the organizers of the event. The Delhi camp, held on 28-29 March, was a good example of how OSSCamps continue to innovate and stay true to the concept of unconferences. The participants at the Delhi camp took the onus of taking the event forward by making on-the-spot decisions of scheduling talks, preparing presentations and conducting the informal sessions.

The latest (http://www.osscube.com) OSSCamp Delhi took place on March 28-29 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. The schedule included 11 talks on various topics, including: Introduction to Backtrack, 3D scientific Visualization using Mayavi and Mlab and CSS amongst the informal discussions on Linux, Ignite Format for Presentation making, Git, SVN, jQuery, Dojo and everything else that campers could think off, open source. The scheduled talks on Day 2 included:  How do companies leverage on open source, The Semantics web, Code Revision with Git amongst 2 talks on the concept of Ignite.

Around 76 campers comprising Students, Developers, Professionals, Bloggers, Entrepreneurs, Hackers, System Architects, and Project Managers participated in the camp. The presence of participants is indispensable for the success of an unconference, and so is the support and promotion. (http://www.osscube.com) OSSCube has always played an important role in the success and propagation of OSSCamps – be it supporting the organization effort, contributing content to the camps or help promote the event.

About Author:
OSSCube is an (http://www.osscube.com) Open Source Services, Consulting and Training organization that serves a range of professional services for open source software implementation like consulting, remote installation, customization and maintenance of popular open source software. It is an enterprise dedicated to develop Internet and Web 2.0 Applications for businesses by leveraging the power of open source software, solutions and technologies.

Contact:
OSSCube,
B- 49, Sector- 63,
Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar – 201301,
Uttar Pradesh
Phone: +91-120-4275761/3
Email: [email protected]

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