Photon Announces New Drupal Training Center

Leading IT Consulting Firm Opens Training Facility to Create an Army of Drupal Experts

CHENNAI, INDIA–(EMWNews – July 16, 2008) – Photon Infotech, a next generation Internet

consulting firm creating innovative e-business solutions with SOA, Open

Source, and Web 2.0 technologies, today announced the opening of the Photon

Drupal Training Center, a new facility that will leverage and expand

Photon’s experience and expertise with Drupal, an

open-source PHP-driven Content Management System. With a goal of certifying

200 new Drupal experts a year, Photon will have the industry’s largest and

best trained army of Drupal consultants in the world.

A strong advocate and contributor to the Open Source movement, Photon has

been involved with Drupal from its start and recently finished its 40th

project based on Drupal. Photon has also implemented one of the world’s

largest Drupal websites, demonstrating Drupal’s enterprise scalability.

Based in Photon’s new Estancia offices in India, the center provides a

comprehensive training environment to teach new Photon consultants how to

develop cutting edge applications.

In a January Forrester Research report entitled, “Web Content Management

and Open Source – Answers to Frequently Asked Questions,” Forrester

recognized Drupal as one of two open source

vendors which “CIOs and CTOs need to pay particular attention.” As part of

Photon’s growing Drupal consulting practice, the training center ensures

customers can leverage Photon’s extensive expertise to implement innovative

applications on this popular open source content management solution.

“We are constantly monitoring open source developments and when it comes to

content management systems Drupal stands out,” said Srinivas

Balasubramanian, chairman and CEO of Photon. “More and more of our large

enterprise customers are finding that open source software, and Drupal in

particular, is mature enough for large scale deployments. To cater to

these large enterprises and stay ahead of open source trends, we are

opening a training facility dedicated to Drupal and its future.”

About Photon Infotech

Photon Infotech is leading a new generation of India-based IT experts who

combine an intimate knowledge of today’s cutting edge technologies with the

business savvy needed to create and build strategic technology foundations

and applications. With more than 550 customers and thousands

of IT projects in mobile, open

source, social

computing, and SOA

under its belt, Photon enables large and mid-sized companies alike to

leverage its one-of-a kind workforce of elite IT experts to create revenue

generating business solutions. Photon is headquartered in the IT corridor

of Chennai, India. To learn more, visit www.photoninfotech.com.