Open Source Platforms

There has been a momentum recently in adoption of various open source platforms from even large organizations. While most such implementations are for Web applications, there has been a overall move towards web applications for even enterprise functions that used to be the reserve for mainframe or typical n-tier applications with thick client software. Open Source software is changing IT in a fundamental way with regular increasing competition by connecting their developers directly. This has resulted in some of the most stable and widely used software in the IT history.

Telliant is in the forefront of adopting and building expertise in various open source technologies. We believe that real world, user friendly and scalable applications can be built using open source tools and technologies. In addition with the various very low or no-cost technologies, the ROI on building such applications is very attractive. Telliant can assist customers in finding the right technology mix for their application development needs.

We take our role as a technology advisor to our clients seriously. We want to recommend the technology and platform for your application that will provide the best solution in terms of usability, ease of long term maintenance and ROI. Our job is to distinguish between flash in the pan technology products and those that will turn out to provide long term advantage.

Open Source Technology Options The following are some of the Open Source technology areas that Telliant specializes in:

PHP Development PHP is an open-source server-side scripting language designed for creating robust and reliable dynamic Web pages for e-commerce and other mission critical Web applications. PHP has introduced number of bonus new features that can help you write better code and gain access to new functionality. Some of them are :

• SimpleXML or SXML is a great extension that makes manipulating XML data a breeze.
• JSON and SOAP support for web service functionality built into PHP 5 through the JSON and SOAP interfaces which makes PHP a viable choice for complex backend applications.
• PDO seems to be one of the great mysteries of PHP 5. it allows developer to access their database of choice using a simple, consistent interface that promotes good coding practices and provides important functionality.
• SPL Standard PHP Library allows userland code to present itself as one of a number of built-in PHP language elements like arrays.
• SQLite is a simple but full-featured DBMS packs all the punch of MySQL in a format that doesn't require a database server and runs on every platform on which PHP 5 can be compiled

Linux Operating SystemsThe last decade has seen a tremendous growth in the adoption of servers on the Linux OS. Especially in the Web Servers market, it is claimed that Linux has over 60% market share, which is very impressive. Telliant has a lot of experience in Linux implementations along with Apache web servers, MySQL databases and in PHP platform commonly referred to as the LAMP stack.

Apache Server With a 50% market share lead over IIS, Apache is the leading choice in platform independent web server technology today.Apache is most known web server to host the applications for PHP and MySQL are two leading open-source scripting and database technologies for Web Applications today.

MySQL MySQL is a backbone of any application developed with LAMP.It tightly holds data but very smooth with integration with PHP or APACHE applications. Below Features are the proof of it :

• Scalability and Flexibility
• High Performance & Availability
• Robust Transactional Support
• Web and Data Warehouse Strengths
• Strong Data Protection & Comprehensive Application Development

CakePHP Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC.CakePHP is one of the most popular frameworks for PHP development. It’s free open-source rapid development framework for PHP. CakePHP provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications.

Zend Framework Zend is the leading open-source PHP framework has a flexible architecture that lets you easily build modern web applications and web services.Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors like Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr etc.

Developing PHP applications on Zend Framework is made much easier with the integration, code completion, and other ease-of-use features that are built into Zend Studio. Get the time-savings that comes from an integrated framework and toolset by using Zend Studio with Zend Framework.

Joomla Joomla is an innovative Content Management System(CMS) & dynamic portal engine that helps web designers design and build state-of-the-art websites.Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications.

Zen Cart Zen Cart is an open source e-commerce solution based on the PHP programming language and a MySQL database. Zen Cart offer a very long list of features that we can use to maintain professional, robust shopping cart web site for an unlimited number of products.

Wordpress In simple words WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it!! WordPress is not only a great tool for online bloggers but at the same time an extensible website content management system. Along with blogging sites it also supports non-blog website, like news/magazine site, portfolio site, ecommerce site etc. WordPress not only integrates your blog perfectly with CMS but also gives facility where website and blog together can be managed on single CMS. WordPress can be used as a CMS and customized easily by massive ways. WordPress CMS gives great number of quality themes and templates which can be further customized to fit your CMS needs.

Drupal CDrupal is an open source software package that allows easily publishing, managing and organizing a wide variety of content on different web sites, including Social Networking Sites, E-Commerce Application, Intranet Application etc.

Drupal is a powerful and easy-to-use content management and website builder system is an open source application development. It is one of the best tool for building & maintaining intricate websites quickly. Drupal is written in PHP scripting language and supports wide range of operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, Windows and Mac OSX etc.

Magento Magento e-Commerce development means latest professional open-source e-Commerce solution providing novel tractability and assurance.It is also known for its robust platform for e-commerce applications. Magento's standard architecture gives the complete control to the merchant online and produces no restraints on the business flow or the processes involved.

Ruby On Rails Ruby on Rails is a free web application framework that aims to increase the speed and ease with which database-driven web sites can be created and offers skeleton code frameworks (scaffolding) from the outset. Often shortened to Rails, or RoR, Ruby on Rails is an open source project written in the Ruby programming language and applications using the Rails framework are developed using the Model-View-Controller design paradigm.

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