Freelock Computing provides technology strategy and implementation for small and growing businesses. We are a full service technology shop, providing CTO-types of service, network infrastructure and maintenance, email, web, and database services, and business solutions.

We provide 3 core services:

1. Custom LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) development, big and small. Our core expertise is database-driven web sites and documentation, and we have a talent for identifying and assembling great values in software systems. We leverage open source to provide complete solutions at affordable prices, and have a variety of pricing models to fit the needs of our customers.
   
   
2. Linux system administration. We administer servers for several web development companies, keeping them up to date and solving variousdeployment/administration issues. We have a dedicated system administrator who monitors our managed servers, ensuring vulnerabilitiesare mitigated, doing periodic checks to detect intrusions, etc.
   
   
3. Open Source consulting, implementation, and integration. Our specialty is identifying open source software to meet business needs. Our best resume here is our book, "Open Source Solutions for SmallBusiness Problems," which details the areas common to most businesseswhere technology can be helpful. We keep tabs on the leading projects for each area, and provide services around managing, using, and customizing the software.

We've been in business since December 1999, and focused on providing open source solutions since January 2003. We have approximately 40 active customers right now.

We help small and growing businesses choose and deploy technology solutions for business problems.

Our customers love our expertise and attention to detail, and our new Service Contract plan has proven to be immensely popular. Our most popular solutions are centered around accounting, sales management, e-commerce, scheduling, and project management, along with all the technology required to support them.

Our services

We tailor our services to fit your budget. By using Open Source software, we can build upon freely available existing software packages to find or create the best solution for your business, within your budget.

We offer:

• Analysis of your business needs, helping you identify your software requirements
• Solutions for common business problems
• Application, server, and network installation, support, and maintenance
• Custom development
• Managed hosting services, including IMAP email with spam and virus filtering, WebDAV servers, and customized environments necessary for your applications
• Documentation and training

Our solutions

Freelock Computing brings you innovative solutions with a personal touch.

• Need help getting the computers in your office to talk with each other? Check out our small business services, with a free technology assessment!
• Need a web site that coordinates people, or helps you manage inventory, photographs, or schedules? You've come to the right place.
• Need to describe a thorny, complicated system to the general public, managers, buyers, or programmers? We can help.
• Faced with a bunch of software packages that don't talk to each other? The consultants of Freelock Computing are experienced in designing cross-platform, cross-language systems that solve your problems.

We use Open Source software as building blocks to put together solutions that integrate with each other and minimize the time employees spend doing things computers SHOULD be doing for them...