Simula Labs, the delivery platform for open source, announced that Covalent Technologies, supplier of enterprise open source solutions, has joined the Simula Labs CoRE Network as an official partner. The CoRE Network  is the first distribution and service delivery platform to offer enterprise IT a comprehensive framework for successfully adopting open source projects and processes. Covalent Technologies joins CoRE Network partners LogicBlaze and Mergere to provide single provider support for leading, complementary Java-based enterprise infrastructure solutions.

The CoRE Network will distribute and provide support for Covalent Enterprise Ready Server (ERS). Covalent ERS is the first comprehensive enterprise solution for Apache server management, including the Apache HTTP server and the Apache Tomcat server. Covalent ERS is the most widely distributed Web infrastructure stack in Fortune 500 enterprises.

The CoRE Network is a hosted open source distribution delivery platform that provides enterprises with a complete roadmap for adopting, managing and leveraging open source technologies from leading open source partner companies. The CoRE Network offers developer and production-level support, release maintenance and software life-cycle management best practices for enterprises to easily and rapidly integrate, control and automate hybrid software environments, such as applications with open source and proprietary artifacts and components. The CoRE Network also tests, documents and validates open source distributions, offering production-ready, indemnified solutions instrumented for enterprise deployment.

“Enterprises have long turned to Covalent ERS to support their mission-critical Web infrastructure requirements,” said Mark Brewer, CEO, Covalent Technologies. “Covalent’s partnership with Simula Labs and the CoRE Network gives end-users even more choice, and provides the option to adopt a process framework that can help developers build, run and manage on top of Covalent ERS and complementary open source technologies, such as Apache Maven and Apache ServiceMix.”

“The addition of Covalent to the CoRE Network further validates the need for both a technology and a process framework that enables enterprise IT to evaluate, implement and manage open source-based technologies,” said Winston Damarillo, CEO of Simula Labs. “The partnership also gives customers unprecedented, one-stop access to the experts that developed Apache Maven, Apache ServiceMix, Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Tomcat, and the Apache HTTP server. We look forward to broadening enterprise access to trusted and supported open source technologies.”