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Aspire wins large open-source development project

Aspire’s Ruby on Rails (RoR) framework expertise plays significant role to bag the project

New Delhi, January 18, 2007: Aspire Systems, India’s leading outsourced product development company, today announced that it has been awarded with an US-based open-source development project on the back of its RoR expertise. The winning of this project demonstrates Aspires Systems’ strength in leveraging newer technologies to further its business goals.

Speaking on the new RoR project, Mr. Sunil JNV, VP (Delivery), Aspire Systems said, “Aspire is very excited about the project and is deploying Ruby on Rails (RoR) for this particular project. We develop products and web applications using Agile development techniques. Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that ensures faster development, easier maintenance with reduced number of bugs and hassle-free configuration.”

Shankar Krishnamoorthy, CTO, Aspire Systems said, “RoR is fast catching up in the market as a preferred technology. RoR simplifies development with several innovative techniques such as scaffolding, convention over configuration, etc. With RoR our customer will be able to initiate and maintain an unlimited number of cases. Our customer can also enjoy better Web 2.0 support when compared to other technologies.”

About Aspire Systems

Aspire Systems is an Outsourced Product Development firm committed to helping our customers build software products better and faster.  We work with some of the world’s most innovative Independent Software Vendors and software-enabled businesses, ranging from start-ups to established industry leaders, transforming the way software is built.

Our approach to product development is based on the pioneering concept of “Producteering™” , which we have evolved and refined through years of product-building experience.  Producteering is a set of Principles and Practices, driven by the right People and supported by the right Platform. Producteering, when applied rigorously, will always result in well-engineered, high-quality software.

Aspire provides complete product lifecycle services, ranging from new product development and product advancement to product migration, re-engineering, sustenance and support. By leveraging our experience in working on over 500 product releases, we bring products to market faster, with better quality and reduced R&D costs.

Aspire has been a winner of Deloitte’s Fast500 Asia Pacific and Fast50 India programs and we have been featured in the revered Black Book of Outsourcing. Our product development teams are spread between our Global Innovation Center in Chennai, India and offices in the United States.

About ROR

Ruby on Rails - often called RoR, or just Rails, is an open source web application framework written in Ruby that closely follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. It strives for simplicity and allowing real-world applications to be developed in less code than other frameworks and with a minimum of configuration. ROR aims to increase the speed and ease with which web products are created.

For further information contact:

Satish Raman
Manager- Corporate Communications
Aspire Systems
Chennai
ph: 044 - 67404000 extn: 4125 

Pradeep Singh
Adfactors PR
Mobile no:+ 91  9958431199
Email: pradeep.singh@adfactorspr.com

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