Press Release
MAGIRUS AND INGRES SIGN DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT TO MARKET OPEN SOURCE ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS ACROSS EUROPE
High Quality Open Source Solutions for Business-Critical and Safety-Sensitive Environments
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and FRANKFURT/STUTTGART - June 9, 2009 - Magirus, one of the leading European value-added distributors of IT solutions in the open source sector, and Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, announced today that the companies have signed a distribution agreement to market open source enterprise solutions. The agreement initially applies to Germany, with future plans to distribute solutions across Europe.
Magirus is an IT specialist offering a comprehensive solution portfolio encompassing virtualization, storage / information life-cycle management, secure networking, open source, and IT management services. With this new partnership, Magirus continues its consistent expansion of its open source sector. As a certified Ingres partner, Magirus will now be in a position to train resellers and partners on Ingres technology.
"With Magirus, we are delighted to have a strong and professional partner at our side to help us successfully take our open source enterprise solutions to market," said Bertram Mandel, vice president, sales and services and managing director, Ingres Germany. "As a leading distributor of IT solutions and services in Europe, Magirus offers professional, client-focused support to help its partners achieve optimum positioning of holistic IT solutions on the market. The fact that Magirus was honored with the "Partnering the Partner" award at this year's EMEA Red Hat Partner Summit is further confirmation of their excellence in the industry."
Award winning open source solutions from Ingres are highly available and specially designed for business critical environments and complex and security-sensitive applications. A recent Gartner report confirms that Ingres is the only open-source DBMS with proven maturity in mission critical applications. To view the Gartner report, "Cost Optimization and Open Source DBMSs," by Donald Feinberg, vice president and distinguished analyst, Gartner, and published April 29, 2009, please go to:
http://info.ingres.com/g/?MUPE4SV01S=clicksrc:press.
"Thanks to our agreement with Ingres, we have been able to expand our open source eco system. We also have a very positive view of the relationship between Ingres and Red Hat, as we believe this can only serve to benefit our business partners further," said Christian Magirus, executive vice president, Magirus AG. "With Ingres as our new partner, we are delighted to have found an extremely experienced and dynamic company whose solutions boast an excellent reputation worldwide."
The Magirus open source solution portfolio - with its wide range of services - offers resellers excellent business opportunities, while users benefit from the professional support of open source providers. Business partners seeking entry into the business of open source solutions will find that Magirus offers comprehensive support services. For example, with its specially created "Open Source GmbH," Magirus demonstrates the interaction of individual open source solutions within a virtual company. Trade partners also benefit by receiving product information and expanded opportunities to work with open source manufacturers to ensure business success.
For Ingres, its continued expansion of partnerships across the globe is a key component of its company strategy. Ingres supports its partners with a customized program, and makes its partner relationships a priority – from the existing product and service relationship to the deployment of Ingres Database.
"The time is now for the New Economics of IT - as both our customers and partners are looking to save money and keep projects alive despite budgets that continue to tighten," said Mandel. "With Magirus, we have found the ideal value added reseller to go to market with in Europe."
About Magirus
Innovation in IT Distribution, Technology, Services & Solutions. The Magirus group is a leading European supplier of IT solutions. The company's distribution business is focused on addressing current trends in the IT sector, enabling business partners to take new technologies to market successfully. As a result, Magirus delivers high-quality software and systems encompassing: storage, secure networking, virtualization and Open Source. With its professional services portfolio and knowledge of the IT sector, Magirus is able to support business partners and their end-customers in the planning and implementation of IT projects. Its services span demand generation, pre-sales, consultancy, training, certification, implementation, as well as first- and second-tier support from its pan-European, multi-lingual Support Centre in Strasbourg. The privately owned company based in Stuttgart was established in 1981 and now employs more than 400 people throughout Europe and the Middle East.
About Ingres Corporation
Ingres is a leading open source database management company. We are one of the largest open source companies in the world and the pioneer of the New Economics of IT, providing open source solutions at a dramatically reduced cost compared with proprietary software vendors. As a leader in the New Economics of IT, Ingres delivers low cost and accelerated innovation to more than 10,000 customers worldwide.
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