September 5, 2007; 08:16 AM Sirius Corporation, a European Open Source services group, has
announced it has been awarded a contract by TLC Marketing plc, the
world's largest sales promotion and incentives agency, to provide
technical support for their online services.
As part of their integrated marketing services, TLC have developed
hundreds of campaign focused websites targeted to provoke specific
actions amongst a defined group of consumers. By outsourcing the
websites' Linux-based infrastructure to Sirius, TLC plan to transform
their development team into a profit centre.
The contract covers all aspects of technical support for the LAMP stack
(Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) including software maintenance. A case
study of the project can be a found on the Sirius website.
Richard Gilbert, IT Director, TLC Marketing said: "Campaign focused
websites are an increasingly important part of what we do for our
clients
"We run hundreds of high-traffic sites concurrently and outsourcing the
deployment and management of our new datacentre to Sirius will add even
more value to our service portfolio."
Mark Taylor, CEO, Sirius Corporation said: "Open Source technologies
drive the Internet and provide the most robust, secure and scalable
platform for web services. By outsourcing its technical support needs
to experts, an enterprise can get all of the benefits of Open Source
without the overhead of specialist recruitment."
About TLC Marketing plc
TLC Marketing is the number one global provider of sales promotion and
corporate incentives to blue chip companies. With offices in over 20
offices around the world, TLC Marketing plc their clients include
Gillette, Nissan, Coca Cola, Pepsi, NatWest, HSBC, RBS, Vodafone, Sony
Ericsson and Siemens. For more information visit www.tlcmarketing.com.
About Sirius Corporation
Sirius Corporation is a European Open Source consulting, support and
outsourcing group that provides depolyment and support for Open Source
technologies such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python, Plone, Zope,
PostgreSQL, TYPO3, PHP, OpenLDAP, JBoss (J2EE), Sendmail, Tomcat and
Xen Virtualization. Its clients include the European Commission,
Specsavers, Boc Linde, Linklaters and Pentax. For more information
visit www.siriusit.co.uk or contact Tom Callway on +44 (0)870 608 0063.
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