application & database development

Our custom application development platform delivers an e-business or back-office system enabling you to implement business solutions within one seamlessly integrated application.

We offer database support on a variety of platforms, but our creative team primarily uses the lastest LAMP technologies (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) for database engineering and development, which is an open source web platform.

Linux

Linux is an operating system that was initially created and released in 1991, and apart from the fact that it's freely distributed, Linux's functionality, adaptability and robustness, has made it the main alternative for proprietary Unix and Microsoft operating systems. IBM, Hewlett-Packard and other giants of the computing world have embraced Linux and support its ongoing development. More than a decade after its initial release, Linux is being adopted worldwide as a server platform primarily, and its use as a home and office desktop operating system is also on the rise.

Apache

Apache is a freely available Web server that is distributed under an "open source" license, and runs on most Unix-based operating systems (such as Linux, Solaris, Digital UNIX, and AIX), and according to the Netcraft (www.netcraft.com) Web server survey, 60% of all Web sites on the Internet are using Apache making Apache more widely used than all other Web servers combined.

MySQL

MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) based on SQL (Structured Query Language), and the world's most popular open source database. First released in January, 1998, MySQL runs on virtually all platforms, including Linux, Unix, and Windows and provides application program interfaces (APIs) for many programming languages, including C, C++, Java, Perl, and PHP.

MySQL is used in a wide range of applications, including data warehousing, e-commerce, Web databases, logging applications and distributed applications. According to MySQL AB, their flagship product has over six million active MySQL installations worldwide. Customers include Cisco, Dunn & Bradstreet, Google, NASA, Lufthansa, Hyperion, and Suzuki.

PHP

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose server-side scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages, and capable of managing huge database-driven online environments.

Our services include, but are not limited to:

  • Patch and periodic upgrades
  • Statistic collection packages
  • Backup and recovery software with set-up and planning
  • Implementing change control procedures
  • Report and resolve all serious alert log messages
  • Database schema modifications
  • Database reorganizations
  • UNIX support for Linux
  • Disk architecture and disk load balancing
  • SQL Tuning
  • Performance Monitoring through periodic performance analysis and tuning