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Optimal Process has written software in many different languages for a variety of platforms. But like almost all other software development firms, we specialize in one particular platform – in our case, Microsoft Windows, and its array of associated applications and languages, including:

Visual Basic VB Script JavaScript ASP.net ASP PHP SQL Server Access Visual C++ Crystal Reports* FLASH

While a number of considerations may factor into your choice of technology, as a practical matter that choice is usually pre-determined. Unless you are founding an entirely new business with no existing systems, the first question any responsible developer will ask you is, “What have you got now?”

For instance, if you are currently operating Oracle software installed on a network with an Oracle server, you are almost certainly going to continue developing in Oracle. Presumably, someone had good reasons for going with Oracle in the first place but, more importantly, changing direction now would amount to an immense undertaking. Practically everything would have to be re-written and your staff retrained.

So if you are currently considering further development for your Oracle-based systems, please call us – we’ll be happy to give you the names of some reliable Oracle developers. But we couldn’t suggest that you hire us.

OPI has no opinion on the political and economic issues surrounding the Microsoft Corporation’s dominance of its industry. What we do know is that over the last twenty years or so, that corporation has created an array of interrelated technologies that, taken together, form a powerful system of amazing flexibility, and that the many different components of that system work together. We also know that the system accommodates tools developed by hundreds of other companies. And finally, we know that Microsoft isn’t going anywhere. Its basic technology would remain dominant even if the company itself were broken into fifty different pieces.

For these reasons, we remain happy with our decision of about fifteen years ago to go down the Microsoft road. As a result, OPI now has several shelves full of DVD’s storing masses of code written in Microsoft Visual Basic (the most widely used programming language in the world), Visual Basic Script, SQL Server et al, code built up out of thousands of software routines that we continually adapt and reuse in developing new software. In addition to our experience, this library of existing code is what accounts for our efficiency in producing mainstream business software.

The nature of your project, your existing systems and the capabilities of your in-house staff should determine your choice of technology. If your project is best suited to a language outside our area of specialization, we will recognize the fact very quickly and tell you as soon as we do. Often, we will be able to direct you to people with the appropriate experience.

* Crystal Reports is a product of Business Objects SA, but is thoroughly integrated into the Windows platform.

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