Covalent Technologies an enterprise open source solutions provider announced at the 7th Annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) that it has made a strategic equity investment in WSO2.WSO2 is a new global startup venture formed by pioneers in Web services and open source to commercialize products and services utilizing Apache Axis, the open source framework for creating, integrating, and deploying Web services applications.

The investment in WSO2 enables Covalent to offer full commercial development and production level support and professional services for Apache Axis to enterprise customers for the first time. "Apache Axis is the most popular open source Web services framework and the leading framework--open source or commercial--for deployment on Apache Tomcat," says anne Thomas Manes, VP and Research Director at Burton Group.

"Demand is rising and the need is real for full commercial support around Apache Axis as enterprise customers increasingly utilize this Web services framework to integrate their business platforms and processes," says Mark Brewer, CEO of Covalent Technologies. "Our partnership with WSO2 enables us to meet this demand as well as reinforce our long-standing commitment to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and steadfast contributions back to the Apache open source community."

Source: CovalentPrashanth RaiTag(s):Open Source, Web Service