Our mission
Realize your Web ideas
Our objective is to provide you the software tools and the related services that facilitate the transformation of your ideas, projects and requirements into Web applications usable in production.
In addition, our ambition is to make this path from ideas to their realization as enjoyable and efficient as possible for you, project managers, architects and developers.
Our responsibility is also to facilitate and make more natural the usage of the architecture principles of the Web, of its protocols and standards. In order to allow you to take advantage of all its power and all its simplicity, we maintain the Web and its founding principles at the core of the design process of our tools and methodologies.
Open source software
Since our creation, we are at the same time big users of open source software and providers through the Restlet project. We are trying to find the best balance between the free usage of our software and the need to finance our research and development and our structure.
We think that the generic pieces of infrastructure should be freely usable with few constraints. For example we propose the Restlet software under a LGPL license, compatible with most usages.
In parallel, we want to keep the intellectual property on the totality of our source code in order to propose alternative commercial licenses for those who wish to bypass some constraints of open source licenses, or to allow us to freely adopt the latest versions of open source licenses.
Beyond technologies, products and news, we felt the need to identify our most important values. We try to stand by them every day, especially when difficult choices need to be made, within the company as well as in our relationships with customers, users and partners.
Respect
We respect and appreciate the diversity of opinions, of technological choices and of methodologies. We are convinced that there is no unique truth and no silver bullet for any given problem. Each point of view has its reasons and its value and must be respected even if it might cause debate.
Objectivity
Of course, we have our convictions, our preferences but we force ourselves to keep an objective and balanced point of view with our customers and users. Knowing to understand the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, each solution in order to adopt the most suitable to a given context is a duty.
Passion
With a technology world in constant change, our passion for our profession is an inexhaustible engine. We are always looking for ideas, technologies and innovative practices to adapt our choices and recommendations, in order to make our customers benefit from that information through our consulting services and our products.
Innovation
Knowing how to detect new trends and how to apply ideas and technologies to the existing knowledge is already a great challenge. We also try hard to produce our own ideas and technologies. But knowing to listen, to appreciate and to adopt the ideas of our customers, users or contributors is another form of openness to innovation, as rich as the others.
Transparency
Our desire for transparency doesn't limit itself to the publication of our source code. We also maintain an open dialog with our customers and our users' community. Our commercial approach is also transparent, with a publication of our prices on our Web site. This desire for transparency must however be balanced and the respect of the confidentiality of our customers information is essential.
Quality
From ideas to their realization there is sometimes a long path during which you must know how to get organized and equipped to ensure the success of the projects. This goes beyond the concretization and encompasses, from our point of view, the guarantee of an optimal quality level at all stages of our interventions, from the requirements gathering to the source code, without forgetting the future maintenance.
Simplicity
We are persuaded that the simplicity, far from being limitative, is in fact a force. It allows you to concentrate on the essential, on the true added value of a feature, of a product or of a work. The simplest the tools are, the more complexity we can handle in the problems we need to solve.
Humanity
Our latest principle is not the less important. As a technology provider, we are at the service of the economy and indirectly of humans and their ecosystem. This must guide us in a responsible and sustainable approach of our development. Computer science is nothing more that a tool at the service of humans, but a powerful tool that must be used with caution. Like Rabelais said: "Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul".