Open Source Consulting

Strategy

Whether you are planning on adapting an existing custom application to open source or building one from scratch, we can help.

Since 2001, we have focused on building mission-critical applications using open source technology. Our focus on architecture, our experience in a wide variety of open source technologies and our strategic partnerships with open source vendors makes us uniquely qualified to help you to realize your open source vision!

Our services:
  • Application Portfolio Assessments
  • Technical / Archtiectural Strategy
  • Technology Diligence
  • Proofs-of-Concept
  • Pilot Projects
  • Implementation Road Maps
  • Budget Planning, including Total Cost of Ownership and Return on Investment Analysis
  • Project Planning

Migration

We took the best practices in enterprise architecture that we used to start our company and enhanced them to achieve a whole new level of capabilities. These practices lay the groundwork for updgading your plarform strategically and cost-effectively one application and one component at a time.

Our services:
  • Migrate operating system, database, middleware and frameworks in all areas of architecture
  • Automated Migration
  • Performance Testing and Tuning
  • Construction of Virtual Enterprise Performance and QA Environments
  • Quality Assurance / Regression Testing
  • Business Analysis

Partnerships

We are vendor independent and we only recommend technologies that best suit your needs. We receive no compensation of any kind from our partners. We partner with select vendors whose products we use often and whose expertise may be valuable and can be best leveraged through special relationships during our client engagements.

Our Partners:
  • Red Hat: We partner with Red Hat on mission critical engagements involving Linux and Java Middleware
  • EnterpriseDB: We partner with EnterpriseDB for PostgreSQL open source database projects
  • Netragard: We partner with Netragard for security assessments and remediation for cloud-based applications
Open Source Technology Experience
Databases
PostgreSQLMySQL
 
Middleware
JBoss Application ServerJBoss Rules Engine
JBoss MessagingJBoss SOA Platform
HibernateActiveMQ
TomcatApache
JBoss ESB
 
Frameworks
Struts I/IIJava Server Faces
TilesSwing
SpringEnterprise Java Beans
JNDIJMS
AJAX
Open Source Success Stories
  • Blue-sky Java-based platform for massive multi-player online gaming
  • Migration of massive insurance policy administration application from a proprietary stack to Java-based open source
  • Migration of mission-critical ERP application from Sybase to PostgreSQL
  • Design & implementation of direct-to-consumer automobile insurance quote and sell portal
  • Online mall and points management for a national loyalty program
  • Design & development of distressed recievables securitization market place