UR SOLUTIONS, INC. envisions itself as a premier IT Solutions Provider that enables superior business results. The Company provides IT Infrastructure, Security, and Collaboration Solutions that enable clients to achieve their business goals. These results are achieved through Teamwork and Collaboration. The Company's open source culture provides a free flow exchange of ideas and an excellent working environment that is conducive to "Positive Peer Pressure" and working synergy.

UR Solutions was recently appointed as a Red Hat Advanced Partner. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the most widely used and trusted operating system used by many large organizations throughout the world, including the NYSE Euronext and the Bank of Tokyo. Red Hat's open source solutions like JBoss middleware are proven cost savers and provide high value for money. As a Red Hat Advanced Partner, UR Solutions' Red Hat in-house expertise takes advantage of the benefits and cost savings offered by open source solutions.

A recent subsidiary of Paxys, Inc., UR Solutions started out as a small outfit, but has since grown in a little over a year. It has expanded its technological capabilities and infrastructure better to meet the needs of its growing clientele.

Founder and CEO, Patrick Reidenbach explains: "Overnight we have evolved from a small family-owned company to an enterprise-grade tech support organization. We have had to quickly modify our processes to adapt to these changes. One of the strategies was to hire highly skilled managerial and engineering staff, and to adapt Project Management methodologies. The beauty of it is that the new team still maintains the culture of the original - striving for excellence and motivating every teammate with Positive Peer Pressure."

UR Solutions has invested in training its technical staff to become Red Hat Certified Engineers (RHCE), with the aim of becoming Red Hat's center of excellence in the region. "The RHCE exam is performance-based and verifies that the individual has the skills and the fundamental knowledge on how to administer and troubleshoot RHEL systems. This certification has always been one of the most demanding and difficult to achieve, however the benefits are tremendous. You will have the skills to implement and maintain the most stable, most secure, and perhaps most cost-effective systems in the world." says Technology Manager Robert Reidenbach, himself an RHCE for the past six years.

Since its inception the Company has recognized the superior business results that open source software delivers. Formerly in the realm of the computer nerd, open source software, like the Linux operating system, has increasingly found its way into the mainstream, providing a stable backbone for many an enterprise's data center.

It is predicted that in the next three years, nine out of ten enterprises will use some form of open source technology directly or in embedded forms. Therefore it is vital that corporate decision makers be familiar with it already. The technology itself is not new. For over 20 years, many organizations have implemented open source technology successfully.

The Company's open source solutions allow organizations to save on IT infrastructure expenses. Since many businesses spend more than three-fourths of their IT budgets for routine maintenance alone, very little is left to invest in innovations and new technologies. Most enterprises use open source primarily for cost reduction. Open source solutions offer companies hard-to-ignore opportunities to lower total costs of IT ownership and increase return on investment. This has been technology's best kept secret for too long.

"The open source community, that develops and supports the software we use, operates with an invisible force, a synergy of sorts, that drives its members to arrive at cutting, even bleeding-edge, technology," says Fritz Roma, URSI Business Development Manager. "It is from this brainchild that the open source software we carry like the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, the Untangle Gateway Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, acquire components, features or functionalities to assemble an Enterprise-grade solution that is able to provide the complex needs of organizations in industries like Telecommunication and Finance".

"The UR Solutions working environment is very similar to the open source community. This is the same force and synergy that drives its people to be able to achieve as a group what the individual would be unable to on his own," says Fritz.

UR Solutions' strategy to provide cost-effective solutions, especially with the ongoing financial crisis, is what is making the Company upbeat about the coming year. The Company's target industries, BPO, Finance and Telco, have a significant reliance on technology, ensuring demand for the Company's solutions in times when cost cutting is required. This year, with the Company's team of Red Hat certified sales consultants and project managers already onboard, the Company is well poised to take advantage of the growing trend in open source systems.