Our Strengths
Our objectivity. We strive to keep ourselves free from any influence that might conflict with our clients' interests. We do not resell any hardware or software products. We build solutions using off-the-shelf hardware and software. We are strong proponents of freely redistributable software. All commercially available components are obtained directly by our clients from the respective distributors without the transactions being routed through us. In a market where every company is hawking their own brand of boxes, our clients value us for our independence.
Open standards. We are strong proponents of open systems. Wherever applicable, we build solutions using freely redistributable software, which is provided free of cost to our clients. We always orient our solutions towards using systems, software, and network protocols that are standard and non-proprietary, rather than single-vendor solutions.
Simplicity. We have seen clients who have been persuaded to invest in a large RISC-based Unix server when a PC running Linux would have sufficed. We have seen clients attempting to use relational database engines where simple text files would have done for data storage. This is a comment on a market which uses vendors as unpaid consultants and isn't sufficiently well-informed to know its own true requirements. We try to correct these misconceptions whenever we find them.
Client self-reliance. We measure our success in terms of how redundant we make ourselves with our clients. At every client site, we work with their IT group, building human resource among their employees even as we build solutions. For instance, in some projects, we have insisted that we will do no coding of applications, though we participate in software design, debugging and testing; the software development is done by our client's engineers.