Technologies

We have a genuine interest in technology: all of our technical consultants have been writing computer programs for many years and for a wide range of business applications. We keenly evaluate new technologies to see how they can help businesses. However, we never forget that the purpose of technology is to bring real business benefits and that a proven solution is often the best.

We are not tied to any particular technology or vendor, which means we are free to choose the technologies that are best for you. If no other factors intervene, we usually propose using our framework components, or open source software, as this generally gives you best value for money.

Some of our favourite technologies:

Platforms

Linux (Debian, Red Hat Enterprise), Windows Server 2003/2008, Mac OS X/Server

Application Servers

LAMP (with Python), Apache Tomcat (including Struts), Microsoft .NET

Databases

MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQLServer

Webservers

Apache, Microsoft IIS

Content Management Systems

OpenCMS, Ecco CMS, Plus custom built using our frameworks

Presentation

(X)HTML, CSS, XSLT, JSP, Tag-libs

Languages

Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, XML