Your Project is our goal
Your project is worth much more than our solution.
We think that a good solution can improve your project development effectively if it promotes:
A project-oriented solution, balancing the weights in the development domain
Too often, the project development is focused on integration and customization of products. On the contrary, a project-oriented solution is designed to realize customized applications putting the focus on the project development. Such a way, it enhances the project start-up with a new ratio among size, cost and quality compared to current price discrepancies on many solutions developed with proprietary products.
A coherent architectural design
Our solutions are "middleware up-the stack". An open framework, a platform and solutions designed both to support end-users with services or features and to be customized to address their needs. Adopting open standards, integrating many best-of-breed open source solutions and developing new components, they enhance reuse and integration of pre-existing environments, increasing the value of existing applications.
An evolutionary or agile process development
Avoid the start-up of big monolithic projects. An evolutionary approach (or an agile development, if you are comfortable with it) helps you in achieving your goals starting with a low dimension, but thinking bigger, getting first results quickly.
An experimentation policy
Many enterprises are not yet comfortable with open source. They are looking for good features, but they need a customizable solution to reach their own goals. They are afraid not to find a real software solution at enterprise level (quality, reliability, scalability) as well as a real support (installation/configuration, bug-fixing, maintenance, training, warranty). Our solutions help you to start with a first project, at a reasonable cost level (no licensing cost), increasing both your confidence with open source solutions and the knowledge of your organization in the open source domain.
Your Business Model is our Business Model
You are now using open source software to satisfy your priorities according to your own business model. You may be a public administration proving services to the citizens, or an enterprise looking for new mission critical applications to enrich and enlarge your business, or even a company that develops its products on top of OSS solutions. You may be just looking for reuse of software or double-sourcing software, as a cost-effective and/or high-quality alternative to proprietary, close-source software. Or you are looking for an outsourcing option, considering the FLOSS community as a third party to which software development or maintenance is delegated, willing to remain on the bleeding-edge of technology and challenge competitors while getting rid of what's no longer a competitive advantage to you. Or yet, you may be considering following an OSS based shared R&D strategy, putting the community of collaborating producers of open source software at the centre of the innovation process.
Our aim is to assist you in your business in a win-win perspective: leveraging our solutions, providing support, enriching the network of stackholders and more. You can involve the community or not, but every time you choose to share your business' goals and priorities, we can find the best way to work together.
Special thanks to Francois Letellier for his classification of usage models given in "Bringing Open Source Middleware to the Mainstream by Federating Business Ecosystems, June 2005".