Under the terms of the agreement, Exigen Services will provide application development and maintenance services for a portfolio of products in Sun’s services division.

Sun Microsystems has selected Exigen Services for its approach to creating a partnership with customers, and knowledge with agile development methodologies such as Scrum and eXtreme Programming (XP).

Tae Kim, senior director of services engineering at Sun Microsystems, said: Our ability to exploit agile development methodologies in partnership with Exigen gives us an edge as we develop and maintain Sun’s products. We are looking forward to a true partnership with Exigen Services.

Alex Adamopoulos, general manager and senior vice president of Exigen Services, said: We’re excited to be invited to support Sun and be part of their world-class organization. Partnership with customers is our main objective, with a successful track record we’re proud of.