openArchitectureWare Partner itemis joins TOP 100 - Open source software becomes more important for medium-sized businesses in Germany

Luenen, 28.06.2006 - openArchitectureWare Professional Support Partner, itemis, announced today that it has been voted among the top 100 companies in German small and medium-sized businesses (http://www.top100.de). itemis has won this reward for its contributions to the open source movement, which becomes more and more imported for medium-sized businesses in Germany.

"Winning this price shows that projects like openArchitectureWare which were struggeling to gain market shares in the past are now on a good way to become very popular", says Wolfgang Neuhaus, CEO of itemis. The company also annouced today that it will increase its efforts in supporting the openArchitectureWare framework in the near future.

itemis is one of the best-known companies in Germany in the field of IT architecture, especially Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
The MDA defines an approach whereby you can separate the system functionality specification from its implementation on any specific technology platform. That way you can have an architecture that will be language, vendor and middleware neutral.

itemis supports the open source projects openArchitecureWare (http://www.openArchiectureWare.org) and AndroMDA (http://www.andromda.com). The company is also providing software engineering and project-management tools and services to successful companies in many industries and government agencies in Germany.

PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Volkswagen, Deutsche Post, T-Systems and Bertelsmann are among the organizations that rely on itemis to ensure that their information systems meet the business needs and quality standards of every department and user.

itemis GmbH & Co. KG
Heinrich Str. 51
44536 Luenen
http://www.itemis.eu
info@itemis.de

presscontact:
Mr. Jens Wagener
+49-231-9860-208
presse@itemis.de

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