Open Source software

The best tools, no hidden license costs

We have the best experience with the use of Open Source Technology. From thousands Open Source solutions we carefully select the best provable tools. We will support those tools completely and professional, inclusive training, management and Service Level Agreement. Besides, you don't have to pay license costs.

The most important Open Source technologies which are used by Proteon Development are:

Plone - Zope

Plone is a professional Enterprise Content Management System with special attention for user-friendliness. The use of this technology is particularly convenient for dynamic sites like portals and communities. Plone is based on the Zope and Python technology. It is platform independent and matches perfectly with almost every modern IT-infrastructure. Proteon Development uses Plone to develop dynamic websites with specific needs. For more information you can visit the Plone website.

Joomla

The Joomla (before: Mambo) technology is used by Proteon Development to develop dynamic websites using a range of existing components. Joomla is based on PHP and MySQL technology. It is platform independent and matches perfectly with almost every modern IT-infrastructure.
For more information you can visit the Joomla website.

Drupal

Proteon Development uses Drupal to build active community websites. Drupal is based on PHP and MySQL technology. It strengths are the existing components, easy to extend and the state-of-the-art content management. It is platform independent and matches perfectly with almost every modern IT-infrastructure.
For more information you can visit the Drupal website.

OpenCMS

OpenCMS is a convenient technology for developing large and structured websites. OpenCMS is based on Java, SQL and XML technology. It is platform and database independent and matches perfectly with almost every modern IT-infrastructure. Proteon Development supports OpenCMS implementations on Solaris, Linux, Windows, MySQL, SQL server and Oracle. OpenCMS is an international technology used by many sites and supported by a lot of programmers.
For more information you can visit the OpenCMS website .

MMBase

Proteon Development uses MMBase technology to develop dynamic websites with specific needs. MMBase is a Dutch development and based on Java and XML technology. It is platform and database independent and matches perfectly with almost every modern IT-infrastructure.
For more information you can visit the MMBase website .

Lucene Enterprise Search

Lucene is the best Open Source Search technology, even much better then many commercially available solutions. This technology is developed by the Apache foundation and has been used for many years, also for commercial search solutions. It is platform independent and matches perfectly with almost every modern IT-infrastructure. Lucene Enterprise Search is a combination of the best proven technologies offering together a complete range of search technologies, among which:

• support of various languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and the possibility of automatic detection of those languages.
• advanced and flexible ranking of search results.
• complete set of search functions (including fuzzy, with wild cards, specific fields, logic operators)
• crawler (Nutch) to search through public (web)sources
• expandable with several file formats like HTML, text, PDF, MSOffice, XML, etc.
• expandable  with several sources like Filesystem, FTP, SQL / RDBMS, SAMBA, Windows Network, Lotus Domino, CVS, etc.
• federated search to index and search through a number of different kinds of sources.

If required Lucene integrates with OpenCMS or MMBase Content Management Systems. Proteon Development has realized several large and small solutions with Lucene Enterprise Search.
For more information you can visit the Lucene website.