The content on the pumptheory.com website is being remodelled and rewritten to show our emphasis on open source collaboration and workflow software development.
In the near future, you will be able to read about the benefits that Corporate clients, Educational institutions and Non-profit organisations can reap from deploying open source based systems.
Our systems are based on the OpenACSOnline Community Toolkit (for businesses) and .LRN educational system for supporting course management, e-learning, online communities and collaboration (for educational institutions).
Organisations using systems developed from these toolkits include Ericsson, GreenPeace, the MIT Sloan school of management, The University of Sydney and the Heidelberg University.
Welcome
As IT continues to rapidly evolve, it is increasingly difficult for companies, especially small to medium enterprises (SMEs) to build business strategies around current and emerging technologies, and then deploy and manage them.
The two areas that underpin all technology-enabled businesses are Infrastructure and Collaboration. Depending on your business model, the collaboration may be with your customers, with your partners or within your organisation. When billing is included with collaboration we call it Ecommerce.
pumptheory.com builds and manages collaborative systems based on Web technologies as well as the core infrastructure that these systems need. For a more detailed description of what we do, please visit the Solutions and Services sections of this website.
The pumptheory.com mission
For the 6 years that pumptheory.com has been in business, there have been some underlying principals used to choose projects and make other decisions. They are not what you would formally call a mission statement, but they hopefully provide some insight in to how we operate:
To provide the best IT tools imaginable to our clients
To use our expertise and experience to provide value to our clients and to the community
To be known as a leader in the software development community
To increase the financial viability of pumptheory.com, it's employees and our clients
To have a positive impact on the global community, especially the software development industry
EnterpriseDB provide a special purpose version of the PostgreSQL open source relational database, targeted at Oracle compatibility.
Announced at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, August 9, 2005, EnterpriseDB will provide sponsorship for further PostgreSQL development and release leadership, in addition to providing existing source code.
This is an excellent boost to PostgreSQL, already one of the best relational database management systems in the world as well as the most ANSI compliant.
Pumptheory.com uses and recommends PostgreSQL to it's clients and would like to welcome these investments by EnterpriseDB into the PostgreSQL community.
(Thank's to Solution Grove for alerting me to this press release.)
PostgreSQL began as Ingres in 1977 - you can read a short history of it's development here.
The newly formed .LRN (read dotLRN) Consortium has released it's first press release.
Members of a multi-university project on open source software for collaborative education today announced formation of the .LRN ("Dot-Learn") Consortium to accelerate and expand development of an open source application suite currently used by a quarter million students and educators at institutions of higher education and research around the globe.
The .LRN Project encompasses an ongoing 10-year development effort and represents the world's largest open source project for scalable educational software. Built on the OpenACS project, .LRN applications originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and enhancements from the past several years have been deployed by the MIT Sloan School of Management as SloanSpace -- its primary means of providing class management and community support. At present, SloanSpace hosts more than 10,000 student and faculty users, amounting to 1,250+ unique logins per day.
Along with the MIT Sloan School, charter members of the .LRN Consortium include Heidelberg University, The European Union-funded E-Lane Project and the University of Sydney.
Thank's to Rafael Calvo (Web Engineering Group, The University of Sydney), pumptheory.com's Mark Aufflick recently presented a series of Software Engineering lectures.
The slide sets and related research materials are now available online:
Workflows - An overview of workflows including Petri Nets and Finite State Machines
OpenACS Workflow - An overview of implementing a finite state machine workflow with the OpenACS workflow package
