AvantSoft, Inc. provides professional services and training to Eclipse Community

SAN JOSE, CA: February 27, 2007 – AvantSoft, based on San Jose CA, providing high quality training and development services, today announced its successful year in 2006.

"AvantSoft has been an Eclipse Foundation member since 2005 and provides hands-on training useful for those in the Eclipse community building large-scale enterprise applications", says Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of Eclipse Foundation. "Their full spectrum of Eclipse courses, including RCP, GEF and EMF, is a great addition to the Eclipse ecosystem."

AvantSoft training division did extremely well, providing Eclipse related onsite training to several large companies from various sectors including software, manufacturing, finance, defense, medical, communications, education, and government. "More than 45 companies in U.S., Europe, and as far as Bangalore, India have benefited from Eclipse RCP training of AvantSoft", said Vibha Dixit, VP of Business Development at AvantSoft.

AvantSoft's training is intensive, thorough, and with 50% hands-on labs which serve to reinforce the complex programming concepts covered in lectures.
"The Eclipse RCP lecture and lab material are very detailed and informative. This allows the student to focus on the concepts and not the logistics of operating the tool. The courses with hands-on labs was perfect for learning the concepts and practicing them. AvantSoft training gave us an excellent head-start on our new Eclipse projects", says a technical manager whose group has taken several Eclipse Plugin courses from AvantSoft.

In addition to training, AvantSoft provides professional services customized for Eclipse companies' needs. "We have executed Eclipse RCP projects for Eclipse-adopting companies from a variety of industry segments", says Dr. Ashvin Radiya, AvantSoft President and CTO. He adds, "Depending on the client requirements and budget, these have been executed as projects outsourced to us or we have supplied experienced consultants. We have provided architectural and design mentoring sessions and supplied development consultants which work onsite or offsite for our customer projects", He adds, "Quite often, a good combination of AvantSoft's onsite and even offshore resources have helped our clients to complete their projects in a timely and cost-effective manner".

About AvantSoft:
AvantSoft, a market leader since 1996, provides high quality training and development services (onsite, offsite, offshore consultants and project outsourcing) for Eclipse Plugins and RCP applications. Avantsoft consultants have expertise with design, development, and testing of enterprise RCP applications. AvantSoft has launched an innovative community training portal called Eclipse University (EU) which offers professional learning solutions for and by Eclipse Community. EU offers customized onsite and live instructor-led virtual public courses and hands-on tutorials on Ecliipse Plugins, RCP, GEF, GMF, EMF, CDT/JDT, AJAX, J2EE WebServices, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, JSF, XML, and Java using WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss. Visit http://www.avantsoft.com and http://www.eclipseuniversity.org.