Open Source Consulting

imageOur services draw on the knowledge and expertise of our consultants, whose skills are based on development of open source software solutions. The credativ support team has years of experience in providing quality assurance and system administration, in addition to software development and complex troubleshooting. Our experts are ready 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 organization'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 recommend the most effective way to improve your organization's IT infrastructure using open source software.

Some specific areas of expertise:

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

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

  • Accounting: GnuCash
  • Backup: Amanda, Bacula, rsync
  • Bug tracking, Helpdesk and Trouble Ticket Systems: Bugzilla, OTRS, RT, Trac
  • Content Management Systems: Drupal, Plone
  • Cryptography: GnuPG, OpenSSL
  • Customer Relationship Management: SugarCRM, vtiger
  • DNS Server: BIND, djbdns, dnsmasq
  • Databases: MySQL, PostGIS, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Slony
  • Desktop Environment: GNOME, KDE, XFCE
  • Development Tools: Bazaar, CVS, GCC, GDB, GNU Enscript, Git, OpenJDK, Subversion, ViewVC
  • Digital Video Recorder: MythTV
  • Education and Virtual Learning: Moodle
  • Email: Courier MTA, Cyrus, Dovecot, Evolution, Exim, Mozilla Thunderbird, Postfix, Sendmail, qmail
  • Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: OpenERP, Tryton
  • File server: NFS, RAID
  • Firewall: Ferm, Shorewall, iptables
  • GUI toolkit: GTK+, Qt
  • Groupware: Citadel, Kolab, Scalix, Zarafa, eGroupWare
  • High Availability/Clustering: DRBD, 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, SUSE Linux, Slackware, Ubuntu Linux, Xandros
  • Mailing List: GNU Mailman, Sympa
  • Microsoft Windows interoperability: Samba, Wine
  • Monitoring: Cacti, ICINGA, Munin, Nagios
  • Network: OpenLDAP
  • Office Suite: KOffice, OpenOffice.org
  • Operating Systems: FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD
  • Printing: CUPS
  • Programming Language: C, C#, C++, Java, Mono, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby
  • Spam and Antivirus: ClamAV, Open Security Filter, SpamAssassin, amavisd
  • VOIP Telephony: Asterisk, Callweaver, Ekiga, FreePBX, Gemeinschaft, OpenSIPS/OpenSER
  • Virtualisation: Eucalyptus, KVM, VMWare, VirtualBox, Xen
  • Web Development: Catalyst Web Framework, Django, Ruby on Rails, Zend Framework, Zope, osCommerce
  • Web browsing: Mozilla Firefox
  • Web services: Apache, Squid, lighttpd
  • Wiki: MediaWiki, MoinMoin