Open Source Consultancy

imageOur services draw on the knowledge and expertise of our consultants, whose skills are based on our specialisation in developing Open Source software solutions.  The credativ support team have years of experience in providing quality assurance and system administration. The specialist disciplines of our experts mean that we are able to offer independent evaluation, support and advice for new or existing IT projects and IT strategy.

credativ's open source consultants

credativ's open source consultants will work with your organisation's individual and unique requirements to deliver a thorough analysis of your systems and evaluate all potential Open Source software solutions from an independent standpoint. This process enables us to establish the most effective way to improve your organisation's IT infrastructure.

Specific areas of expertise:

  • IT infrastructure management
  • Database performance analysis and optimisation
  • Managing heterogeneous networks, including Windows consultancy
  • Migration
  • Custom software packaging
  • Security auditing and monitoring
  • Operating system customisation

Open source consulting for these common projects

For each of these common projects, we will be able to find you an expert open source consultant:

Accounting

GnuCash

Backup

Amanda, Bacula, rsnapshot, rsync

Bug tracking, Helpdesk and Trouble Ticket Systems

Bugzilla, OTRS, RT, Trac

Content Management Systems

django-CMS, Drupal, MODx, Plone, Wordpress

Cryptography

GnuPG, OpenSSL

Customer Relationship Management

SugarCRM, vtiger

Databases

MySQL, PostGIS, PostgreSQL, Slony, SQLite

Desktop Environment

GNOME, KDE, XFCE

Desktop Publishing

Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus

Development Tools

Bazaar, CVS, GCC, GDB, Git, GNU Enscript, Mercurial, OpenJDK, Subversion, ViewVC

Digital Video Recorder

MythTV

DNS Server

BIND, djbdns, dnsmasq

Document Management Systems

Alfresco

Email

Courier MTA, Cyrus, Dovecot, Evolution, Exim, Mozilla Thunderbird, Postfix, qmail, Sendmail

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

OFBiz, OpenERP, Tryton

File server

NFS, RAID

Firewall

Dansguardian, Ferm, iptables, Shorewall

Groupware

Citadel, eGroupWare, Kolab, Open-Xchange, Scalix, Zarafa, Zimbra

GUI toolkit

GTK+, Qt

High Availability/Clustering

FAI, Heartbeat, Keepalived

Integrated Development Environment

Eclipse, NetBeans

Intranet portal

Liferay Portal

Linux Distribution

CentOS, Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora, Gentoo, Kubuntu, Mandriva Linux, Red Hat Linux, Slackware, SUSE Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Xandros

Mailing List

GNU Mailman, Sympa

Microsoft Windows interoperability

Samba, Wine

Monitoring

Cacti, ICINGA, Munin, Nagios

Network

Cfengine, Openfiler, Open-iSCSI, OpenLDAP, OpenVPN, Puppet

Office Suite

KOffice, LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org

Operating Systems

Android, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD

Printing

CUPS

Programming Language

C, C++, Java, Mono, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Project Management

Redmine

Spam and Antivirus

amavisd, ClamAV, Open Security Filter, Postgrey, SpamAssassin

Virtualisation

Eucalyptus, KVM, VirtualBox, Xen

VOIP Telephony

Asterisk, Callweaver, Ekiga, FreePBX, Gemeinschaft, OpenSIPS/OpenSER

Web browsing

Mozilla Firefox

Web Development

Catalyst Web Framework, Django, Horde, Ruby on Rails, Zope

Web services

Apache, lighttpd, Squid, Tomcat

Wiki

MediaWiki, MoinMoin

If your open source consultancy needs extend to other projects, please contact us, and we will be happy to discuss your individual requirements.