Making a Difference
The Linux Box has extensive professional experience in
team-based software development
on Linux, traditional UNIX, Win32, BSD and mainframe platforms using
several programming languages. We cooperate with the customer's team
and take on all or parts of a software development project where our
expertise adds value. We follow proven development methodology and life
cycles, adjusting the practice to suit situations as appropriate.
Customization
We will find open source software with the closest fit to customer's
requirements & customize it to match requirements. Customer can
choose whether to permit giving the code back to the community for
continuing development and freedom of support.
Code from Scratch
We have some customers who want solutions tailored to fit their
specific needs. Such requirements include functional specifications as
well as technical architectural design standards. These customers like
to use open source tools for the flexibility and cost containment that
they offer. In some cases, the customers do not mind releasing the code
back to the community. Release the code to the community offers them
increased options for support and feature enhancement. In some cases,
the solution offers the customers a competitive advantage, in which
case they will require the code to remain closed, even though it is
made with open source tools.
- We are always willing to sign our bilateral Non Disclosure Agreements (NDA) to protect clients intellectual property.
- The ultimate decision — whether to give the code back to the community and when to do it, is always in our customers hands.
- The list of open source development tools
we use to manage and code the solutions code is ever expanding, as we
continually research, analyze and test new programming languages,
tools, methods and emerging standards.
Migration
We will write code and
scripts to migrate customer's system functionality and data from a
current system to an open source solution to match requirements and
expand customer's opportunity for competitive advantage. The Linux Box
Software Porting Practice
specializes in migration of traditional software applications to the
Linux platform. The Linux Box is not specialized in, nor limited to,
specific implementation languages or toolkits.
