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Open Solutions began as a consultancy service in 2005 by our principle, Barry O'Donovan. As we grew in both customers and employees, we formalised the business in 2007 as a limited company. We work out of offices in Sandyford Business Park in Dublin, Ireland with customers in Ireland, the UK, the US, Switzerland, Cyprus and beyond. While we're a small but growing company, we accomplish more in a day than our numbers would suggest.

Our motto is to work smarter, not harder. We automate repetitive tasks; we build tools and write scripts to take care of the mundane; we create robust fault tolerant networks; we design highly available and stable server farms; and we deploy intelligent and thorough monitoring systems that alert us to issues before they happen – not when they happen.

At its most basic, Open Solutions is a service and consultancy company specialising in a combination of unique areas: advanced IP networking; Linux/UNIX server farms; VoIP application programming; and web application development. By being able to leverage experience in all of these areas, we are ideally suited to provided services and solutions in the general Internet Service Provision area as well as multi-disciplinary solutions you may not have expected.

While we work closely with all our customers, some of them come to us in the product incubation stage – when they have an idea but are not sure if it’ll work or if it’s even possible – and with these we form a close partnership and can often provide a CTO role. It’s much more about what we need to do rather than what you need to do.

Our customers come from all areas of industry: INEX, Ireland’s IXP; imag!ne, one of Ireland’s largest telecommunications and broadband services provider; Showreel Player, a unique industry specific network launching in 2011; Cab Call, a new innovative location based service; and many more.

Among our staff we have some keen interests including: optimising queries and fine tuning MySQL; practical IPv6 roll out and promotion; mapping and OpenStreetMap; PHP frameworks with Zend, Doctrine and Smarty; debating the merits of JQuery vs. YUI; Asterisk programming and telephony; all forms of IP switching and routing; open source evangelism; highly available and robust solutions in networking and applications; and many more.