IONA announced that Chariot Solutions has become a FUSE Partner. Chariot Solutions, as a FUSE Partner, will resell IONA’s FUSE family of Open Source services and solutions to address customers’ enterprise Open Source requirements.

As a FUSE Partner, Chariot Solutions’ consulting customers will have access to IONA’s services for its FUSE product family, featuring fully supported, enterprise releases of leading Apache Open Source projects including ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, CXF and Camel. IONA has proven experience in the development and deployment of these Open Source solutions in enterprise environments, and in-house expertise on each project, as a number of IONA employees contribute significantly to the Apache Community as project committers and lead developers.

“IONA is clearly committed to fostering the development of enterprise Open Source,” said Don Coleman, director of technology, Chariot Solutions. “The FUSE line of products and services is a valuable addition to what Chariot already offers, and we look forward to working with IONA’s Open Source and professional services teams to bring the advantages of enterprise Open Source to our customers.”

As a certified FUSE Partner, Chariot Solutions will continue to implement the flexible, cost effective Open Source technologies like Apache ActiveMQ and Apache ServiceMix, while also now making it easy for their customers to get 24/7 enterprise support via IONA’s FUSE offerings.

“IONA has a heritage of technical excellence and deep expertise in Open Source,” said Larry Alston, vice president and general manager Open Source, IONA Technologies. “Combined with Chariot Solutions’ Open Source consulting offerings, IONA can offer Chariot’s customers effective, efficient Open Source deployments with unparalleled service and support.”