- APIs & web services
- Best practices implementation
- Custom software development
- Enterprise content management (ECM)
- ERP engineering
- Intranet & workflow processes
- Marketing strategy & research
- Mobile applications
- Open source consulting
- Sarbanes-Oxley compliant softwares
- Semantic web
- Supply chain management
- System unification
- Virtual integration
- Website design
Open-Source Options Need To Be Opened Up
Open-source software allows a great deal of flexibility and configurability, and can help organizaitons avoid vendor lock-in, but it has to be the right open-source software. Open-source enterprise applications such as Zimbra that provide hosted, on-premises and independent options are the most attractive. - I recently pointed out that while Google's excellent messaging and calendar services are available at low or no cost, Microsoft's Exchange is, in some significant ways, more free than Gmail.
That's because while Gmail is an excellent application, it's shadowed somewhat by the specter of lock-in: th...