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The Philippine Software Industry Assn. is going after the U.S. software market with a succession of road shows to prefer the country’s prowess

by Joel D. Pinaroc

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In a statement, the Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA), said it will try to pitch pick out homegrown software to potential clients in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Jose this month.

PSIA members Exist Global, Morph Labs, Headstrong Philippines, Soluziona, and Pointwest Technologies, have committed to join the roadshow, the PSIA said.

Winston Damarillo, PSIA chairman for international marketing, said: “The belonging to behind the U.S. roadshows is to further improve the image of our country in the between nations IT and software growth scenes.”

Damarillo said the assign places to will work with picked government agencies for the undertaking.

“With the help of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), we hope to solidify the country’s stand as one of the major players in both of these fields, bringing by us a local team of progressive companies that will exhibit the industry-leading technologies and services our country now offers.”

The U.S. roadshows are expected to take place on July 17 and 18 in Los Angeles, California.

Exist Global and Morph Labs, where Damarillo concurrently serves as executive chairman for both software companies, have pledged additional logistics support in the California leg of the roadshows, particularly in Los Angeles, to which place they hold betokening carriage.

PSIA officials aforesaid that the roadshows will culminate with the World BPO Forum in Jersey City, New Jersey on July 28 and 29.

The forum is considered the largest offshoring and outsourcing summit in the world. Major outsourcing service providers be attendant the court to network and to discuss emerging trends and issues affecting the sector.

One of the more interesting software products that the PSIA will be pitching in front of possible U.S. clients is Maestro, an open source-based product developed by PSIA member Exist.

Exist said Maestro provides an integrated public source platform that enables comprehensive shape administration by integrating Apache tools such as Apache Maven and Apache Continuum.

In addition, Maestro also includes support for a centralized, hosted repository using Apache Archiva to enable higher developer productivity, better overall team collaboration, and cast coordination, the manufacturer said.

Brett Porter, Exist vice president for product development, before-mentioned Maestro enables developers to access everything cause digest under the Apache License 2.0 by perfect independence to modify collection of laws as required.

“With Maestro, you have access to each active undefended source development community through no lock-in to any specific vendor.” Porter added that this open source product is already deployed in Fortune 500 companies which receive integrated open source programs in their enterprise environment.