Modern software technologies develop at an ever-increasing rate. Competitive businesses know that they must keep their technology infrastructure up-to-date or lose business and profits to more nimble competitors.

Software and technology update costs, if not managed strategically, spiral out of control giving you very little return on your investment; however, failing to keep your technology infrastructure current leaves you at a competitive disadvantage.What should you do?

At Butler, Freeman & FOSS we believe the answer to this dilemma is found in the Free and Open-Source Software community. FOSS technologies, strategically integrated with proprietary and custom solutions, where needed, provide the latest technologies with the greatest return on investment. We have the expertise to recommend, implement, customise, and support these technologies for your business.

We have extensive experience in all of the following FOSS technologies, development tools, database systems, and proprietary products:

Free and Open-Source Products

• GNU/Linux
• Ubuntu
• Redhat/Fedora
• Novell/SuSE
• PostgreSQL
• mySQL
• Gnome/Gtk
• Evolution
• Sendmail
• Qmail
• BIND
• SAMBA
• Gimp
• Inkscape
• OpenOffice.org
• ABIWord
• Gnumeric
• GnuCash
• Planner
• Tomcat/J2EE
• Apache HTTP
• and many, many more...
  

Development Tools

• GCC/G++
• Java
• Mono/.Net
• Javascript/ECMAScript
• XML/XSLT/XPATH/XQUERY
• HTML/XHTML/CSS
• Perl
• Python
• Shell Scripting (bash, ksh, csh, zsh, sh)
• Gnome/GTK
• SWT
• GWT (Google Web Toolkit)
• AJAX
• PostgreSQL/mySQL/miniSQL
• BDB (Berkley DB)
• DOM/SAX
• and many, many more...
  

Proprietary Products

• MS-Office
• VB/VB.Net/VBA
• C#/.Net
• Win32
• Delphi
• WSAD (Websphere Application Developer)
• MS-SQL Server 2000+/T-SQL
• Oracle 8, 9, 10/plSQL
• Progress 4GL and RDBMS
• and many, many more...

Contact us to learn more or for a free consultation.