Open Source Webware
Webware: websites that do useful stuff!
Egressive builds software solutions to address your business requirements. We specialise in web-based applications that provide your business with access to the most up-to-date, flexible, scalable, useful capabilities possible. These web applications run from a central server, securely visible on the intranet and Internet, and work regardless of the user's computing platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS X) so long as a modern, web standards compliant browser is available. In house, we use Firefox and recommend it to everyone else - free, cross-platform, more secure, standards compliant, and feature-full. Try it.
Leverage the power of open source!
Generally speaking, the best business solutions result from combining off-the-shelf components to provide a most cost-effective, flexible result. In software, however, it's rarely this easy - largely due to the purposefully non-standard systems implemented by most proprietary software vendors, designed to lock in customers. Because open source software solutions seldom arise from this "lock-in" mentality, they are usually much closer to the ideal of interchangeable software components, whose behaviour conforms to predictable, published open standards.
As a result, we feel we can offer our customers the best value by building our software solutions using open source languages, tools, and application frameworks. This policy gives us a number of compelling advantages:
- rich and robust solutions built on mature open source tools with large user bases and multiple support options,
- much functionality can be provided by packaged open source solutions "ready to go" with minor customisation to look and feel,
- all software building blocks we use are fully customisable, with no legal limits to development flexibility,
- no ongoing software royalty/license costs,
- no single vendor lock-in,
- no business risk of being stuck with an unsupportable "orphaned" solution,
- all solutions run on the readily available low-cost industry standard hosting environment: LAMP (unlike ColdFusion and other proprietary solutions).
Our target market:
- Web design companies wanting to provide their customers with advanced backend solutions.
- SMEs with a specific software requirement not met by any "off the shelf" solution.
- SMEs wanting to integrate disparate information systems.
- Start-ups with a good idea requiring a development partner to realise it.
In addition to applying software development best practices in areas like software version control and change management, we believe that a compelling point of difference between us and other software developers is our work in Linux support. We are among the most knowledgable Linux server administrators in New Zealand. We have extensive experience in providing end-to-end support for not only the web applications we develop, but also the Linux platforms and web, scripting and database services on which host those applications.