Grandite releases Open ModelSphere - a free modeling software licensed under GPL (GNU General Public License)

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Grandite announces the release of Open ModelSphere, an application modeling and enterprise architecture tool, as a free software licensed under GPL.

Quebec, QC, Canada – September 17, 2008 (PressReleasePoint) Grandite today announced that it released Open ModelSphere, an application modeling and enterprise architecture tool, as a free software licensed under GPL (GNU General Public License).

"More and more organizations in our core market (Canada, USA, France), mostly in the public sector, have not only adopted free software on a large scale, but even issued policies to preferably acquire applications under a free license", states Axel Troike, President. "However, organizations face the challenge to integrate their new acquisitions – free or proprietary – into an already heterogeneous landscape of coexisting databases, applications and operating systems. Open ModelSphere responds to that challenge helping its users to develop a platform-independent enterprise architecture and solid application design. It supports free and proprietary databases, it is portable among different platforms, and – last, but not least – it is a free software itself."

Open ModelSphere, a 100% Java software, has been developed and marketed over several years as the commercial product SILVERRUN ModelSphere. It covers conceptual, logical and physical data modeling and includes generic forward / reverse engineering and synchronization of databases. Traditional business process modeling as well as the established diagrams of UML modeling are supported. Grandite offers
interfaces for DB2 UDB, Informix and Oracle as commercial add-ons. Its service portfolio for Open ModelSphere includes maintenance & support, training classes, consulting and individual development on demand.

"To offer free software does not and will not liberate us from our obligation to deliver dependable products", adds Axel Troike. "Our professional clients will benefit from a maintenance contract which includes an extended warranty for major releases of Open ModelSphere combined with unlimited access to our Technical Support."

For further details about Open ModelSphere, please visit http://www.modelsphere.org, for more information about Grandite, please see http://www.modelsphere.com or contact us at info(at)grandite.com or 1-418-622-4892.

About Grandite

Grandite is known as the supplier of the SILVERRUN tools for data, process and UML modeling and related services. Having been on the market for more than 15 years, Grandite's software is used by more than 1000 organizations of all sizes and business branches in more than 30 countries. Grandite markets its products and services both directly and via regional distributors.