Leverage Open Source to reduce cost

The Open Source movement has revolutionized the manner in which software is being developed and deployed. It can speed time-to-market and deliver substantially lower licensing and maintenance costs. While the advantages are real, it is important to ensure that proper safeguards are in place to address the unique challenges it presents – including licensing, integration, support, and system interdependencies.

Impetus helps you gain insights on Open Source, its workings, impact on existing infrastructure, and the processes that best leverage its advantages. Having worked on various Open Source technologies - researching, implementing, and contributing to the community – we have in-depth knowledge on how best to apply Open Source technologies for optimal benefits.

We work with you through a structured process of identifying the best available Open Source technologies to solve your specific business or technology challenges. We

Understand your systems and processes, and find synergies of Open Source tools and technologies with your existing architectures
Help develop, integrate, and implement solutions around Open Source technologies, given any inherent challenges or possible risks
Evolve your existing architectures in line with a defined technology or product roadmap to best leverage the options provided by Open Source technologies

Our Services
Whether identifying technologies, moving towards open development, or participating in communities, we help you get the most out of your Open Source journey. We

Assess the Open Source footprints in existing products and applications
Define strategy for Open Source migration
Analyze designing and developing migration strategies
Test migrated applications
Provide production support for Open Source components
Train on Open Source stacks

Our Open Source contributions

WebROaR: This is a Ruby Application server, the simplest Ruby on Rails application deployment that runs on other rack-compliant applications as well. WebROaR has intelligent load balancing and dynamically reaps stuck Ruby processing instances. Visit http://webroar.in/
GAE-OpenSocial: This is a first-ever python based infrastructure for the OpenSocial community interested in the Google Cloud. It is currently the only true GAE-python based OpenSocial container for the Google App Engine. Visit http://code.google.com/p/gae-opensocial/
Hadoop-toolkit: This can build tool kits/extensions for the Hadoop ecosystem. It creates and provides links to existing tools. Visit http://code.google.com/p/hadoop-toolkit/
Kundera: This is an annotation-based Java library for the Cassandra database that makes work fun. It is a wrap-around application program interface (API) to help developers do away with unnecessary boiler plate codes, and program neater-and-cleaner code with reduced complexity, and quality improvements. Above all, it enhances productivity. Visit http://code.google.com/p/kundera/
Zing: It is a Java Shindig-based OpenSocial-compatible social networking website that aims to be simple. It has a comprehensive array of social networking service (SNS) features like an application gallery, scrapbook, albums, media items, mailing options, etc. Visit http://code.google.com/p/zing/

Open Source Data Sheet