STANDARD development
You wish to jump from concept to reality at maximum speed and minimal cost but you don't want to compromise with reliability? If the answer is yes, let us suggest the following strategy :
- research of the free softwares similar to your project and assessment of their respective features and stability,
- development of a non functional model (screens, Web interface),
- validation of the model on your end,
- functional development,
- writing of a functional documentation.
This is how we developed in 2 months the first version of "Internet in the Bus" for TDF C2R. This model uses Linux, NewsClipper, Perl, Make, many programs in Tcl. It also includes the porting of a Windows driver towards Linux for a SWIFT modem.
The goal of such a development is to quickly build a functional prototype. The development is not an end in itself but a mean of demonstration.
We made a great number of developments within this framework:
- Interactive Websanté of Metz : health information (hospitals, health related services, doctors ...) in the Moselle region (linux, postgresql, tcl/tk), prototyping of LNA technology (login on both Windows and Linux on stations without hard disk). Installation in Saint-Dié of the first LNA.. The Linbox company was created after this installation and based on that concept. (15 MF of financing at the first round table).
- EduConceptLinux: usage of the backward channel of a cable network to control a computer at the head of a community aerial from a television and its remote control (linux, microcontroler embarked in television and driving softwares of backward channel modem, tcl/tk, network ...).
- Analytical Management of the Times Spent on Projects on the Intranet for the Research Direction of the SNCF (postgresql, apache, tcl/tk).
- Prototype of Internet in the Bus for TDF-C2R within the framework of the European EQUAL project (Linux, Perl, NewsClipper, tcl/tk, makefile, apache, Linux embarked, Netscape, ...),
- Eco54 gate for the General Treasury of Meurthe-et-Moselle, the DRIRE and the CAPEM : a Yahoo type of Web gate able to post geographical charts locating links (mysql, Perl, apache, grass, free geographical information system, tcl/tk, ...),
- SigLab: the signal computing device for people working on signal treatment (TDF-C2R, Philips Rennes Semiconductor). Software in scilab and tcl/tk, with Ptolemy integration.
- Development of Thomcast's helpdesk software on the Intranet (management of requests received by the data processing department). This software has been used for over 3 years now by Thomcast.
