Orange & Bronze is now an Official SpringSource Partner

Orange & Bronze became an official SpringSource partner last month.  Initially, we were working on separate official partnerships with G2One, maintainers of the Grails framework, and SpringSource.  This was as far back as June of last year, where we had some initial conference calls with Jeff Brown, Grails committer and then G2One Director of North American Operations.  I also met with Mitch Ferguson, SpringSource VP of Business Development, in August of last year, at the SpringSource headquarters in San Mateo.  Little did we know that SpringSource would acquire G2One!

We've been working with the Spring Framework for such a long time now.  Many of our architects have been working with Spring way before O&B even started.  In fact, even before the Spring Framework came out, I was organizing PinoyJUG sessions based on Rod Johnson's book, "J2EE Development Without EJB".  I can safely say that, as a company, we are far-and-away the top experts in the Spring Framework in the Philippines.  Almost all of our projects are based on Spring, and Spring-based technologies such as AppFuse.  We also run a healthy business in conducting Spring Framework training courses, with major software development firms as clients.

Early on as well, we were evaluating dynamic languages and frameworks based on them.  We've looked at Ruby on Rails, Scala, and have even used Python and Django in production work.  By far however, we've found the most practical framework for enterprise applications to be Groovy and Grails, mainly because it was based on mature technologies like Spring and Hibernate.  We have begun using Grails as a replacement for AppFuse when building new enterprise applications.  When the Philippine Groovy Users Group (PGUG) formed, we immediately offered them sponsorship, including freedom to use our office for its meetings.

All-in-all, we've been finding SpringSource technologies the most practical choice for our enterprise software development work.  We have been early adopters of these technologies, and as a company, have established ourselves as the foremost experts in these technologies in the Philippines.  It just made sense to establish official ties with SpringSource.  We have very exciting plans in the coming months revolving around Spring and Grails, and looking forward to closer collaboration with SpringSource.