Local development company offers affordable open source solutions

A South African development company, Snapt, has launched a series of revolutionary user interface tools that effectively utilise this open source software to provide powerful and economical solutions for corporate clients. Snapt's high-end customised open source software tools are not only easy to use, but at the same time offer the kind of support and reporting traditionally associated with commercial software offerings.

User interfaces can harness existing frameworks

The company's two initial software offerings - Snapt HAProxy and Snapt Squid - have been built with business in mind and afford enterprises the ability to effectively manage server capacity, as well as to maintain and monitor network systems and intranets.

"Our mission in the creation of Snapt was essentially to make open source software accessible and useable for big businesses," says Dave Blakey, CEO of Snapt. "The user interfaces we've created can empower enterprises to really harness these existing frameworks, and ultimately manage them in the same way they would with commercial software, but at a fraction of the cost."

"The potential of FOSS is unlimited, and we're always looking to deliver an increased range of enterprise-ready offerings to a broader market," says Blakey. "The need for such solutions is apparent, and we will continue to devise unique, user-friendly interfaces to efficiently and cost-effectively service the full spectrum of corporate requirements."