Hal's Software offers an open-source consulting service which allows you to leverage our experience with open-source software systems to benefit your organization. We specialize in creating system configurations with centralized management and high degrees of failure tolerance while maintaining system security. We have the skills necessary to modify and/or extend existing open-source software to fit your needs.

The following is an non-exhaustive list of open-source applications with which we have experience deploying and integrating:

• Web Servers
  • Apache
  • boa
  • thttpd
  • lighttpd
• Mail Transfer Agents
  • sendmail
  • postfix
• Mail Servers
  • Courier IMAP
  • Dovecot IMAP
  • Many POP3 servers (from cucipop to Courier POP3)
• FTP Servers
  • proftpd
  • vsftpd
• Database Engines
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Ingres
  • OpenLDAP
• Base System
  • General system setup
  • Shell scripting
  • PAM (pluggable authentication modules) and NSS
  • RADIUS services
  • SSH
  • System firewall setups
• Programming Languages
  • C, C++ and related languages
  • Javascript
  • perl, including the mod_perl environment
  • PHP
  • SQL
  • XSLT and other XML based technologies
  • Functional languages LISP and OCaml

We have setup so many web-based applications and scripts that giving a representative list would be close to impossible: everything from full content-management systems to simple cgi scripts.

We can help you investigate relevant open-source technologies and applications to determine which ones are right for you. If you need help setting up your development environment, we can assist with that as well.