Open Source Development & Services:

For many years, Tom Zulfi has been using Open Source software as a platform for building our clients’ applications. We are experts at creating web applications using the following technologies:

• PHP
• Ruby, including Ruby on Rails
• Python, including Django and TurboGears
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Apache
• GNU/Linux
• Our pre-built, PHP-based content management system

When Open Source developers talk about “free software” they are referring to freedom, not price. Put simply, Open Source software allows anyone to inspect and improve the source code. This process has resulted in highly reliable, secure, high-performance platforms on which to build web applications.Choosing an Open Source platform for your application can lower your overall technology risk and reduce the cost of development and long-term maintenance.

While independent software vendors are motivated primarily to generate a profit, Open Source developers tend to focus only on computing problems. Open Source software generally complies with industry standards and doesn’t carry the risk of “vendor lock-in” and forced upgrades by software vendors.Throughout the last ten years, the Open Source developer community has produced many of the most trusted building blocks of the web. Apache, the Open Source web server, is used on two-thirds of all web sites. PHP, though a non-commercial product, is used on over 14 million web sites and is more popular than Microsoft’s competing solution.Tom Zulfi recognizes that Open Source isn’t always the best solution. Contact us to talk about your project. We take a flexible approach to technology decisions by recommending Microsoft, Java, Oracle, WebObjects, and Open Source solutions on a case-by-case basis.