In order to keep down costs and rapidly deliver solutions to our clients we try not to re-invent the wheel. There are thousands of quality web applications that have already been developed, tested and are successfully in use. Blogs, forums, groupware, e-commerce, image galleries, media delivery - the variety of applications is almost endless.

That's right, zOpium will use other peoples effort and hard work to deliver what you want. We don't hide the fact we love open source software, it's great and usually better than commercial products costing large sums of money.

Take the zOpium website for example - it is delivered from a Linux (CentOS) box, served up by the ubiquitous Apache web server and the pages are managed and rendered by the fabulous Plone content management software. The design theme, Addicted is based on a WordPress theme called SoSuechtig that was ported to Plone by iNZAN.

What did zOpium do? We put it all together, changed a few things and typed in the content. It took about two hours to do. (Apart from the content of course) Talk about rapid development!

Home much did it cost? Well apart from the time taken and the hosting costs, nothing. All we had to do is adhere to the software open source licence and credit the creators. And they deserve a lot of credit!

zOpiums expertise is knowing what's out there too meet your requirements, how to customise and enhance an application to work and feel the way you want it, how to install and configure for the best performance and security. We know what sort of hardware, bandwidth, etc. your application will need.

We know how to promote your site so the search engines put you above your competitor. We know what training your staff will need to be able to use your investment to its fullest potential.