Egressive is first and foremost a service provider. We build IT solutions for our clients and then we ensure that those solutions do their job. By leveraging the huge capabilities of open source software, we are able to offer services in the following areas:

• customised business solutions
• hosting - websites, domains, email, mailing lists, web applications like CMSs, CRMs, etc.
• consulting - system integration, requirements and business process analysis, business IT strategy
• contracting - leading or sub-contracting in multi-disciplinary and joint venture project teams
• advocacy - we have a great deal of experience and passion for both open standards (like those on which the Internet and World Wide Web are built) and open source software (the software foundation of the Web) and can help others understand it so they, too, can contribute and benefit.

We are keenly aware that software - in and of itself - doesn't solve business problems. Our use of open source software, which we can provide free of license fees, puts the value of the software itself into perspective. While software is often a crucial component of a business solution, it has no value without the integration of that software into your business processes, without training, and without support required to keep that system reliable and constantly adapting to ensure its effectiveness. Not only does it have no value, it is a net cost to your business.

Egressive works on the belief that only with integration, customisation, training, and ongoing support provided by skilled IT professionals can a business realise a return on its IT infrastructure investment. With Egressive and open source software, you do get what you pay for: an excellent service.

Commitment to Open Source

Because our business builds on the wealth of software created by the open source software community, we're committed to supporting it to ensure it stays rich, vibrant and principled. To achieve that, we:

• fulfill our obligation as distributors of open source software to make the full source code of all open source components included in our solutions available to our customers on request,
• where possible, make donations to help support a range of open source projects,
• contribute code we've fixed or enhanced back to the open source development teams working on the projects, often becoming actively involved in the projects.