Open Source for E-government and Industry

Long active in the open source and open standards arenas, Shiman Associates Inc (SAI) demonstrates its commitment to "openness"

• in the design and development of its own products*
• in the delivery of open source solutions to clients
• in leadership positions within X.Org Foundation, Utilities Industry Group (UIG), and ANSI ASC X12's F2 Committee
• as advisors to the Information Technology Division of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Government Open Source Advisory Committee (GOSAC)

Look to SAI for open source development, open source migration, open source integration, and preservation of legacy systems in an open source infrastructure.

*The Alexandrian Authority™ (aka "Alex") is an open source- and open standards-compliant solution used by standards organizations and by all statewide offices of the Public Defenders Division of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Alex is based on non-proprietary standard components (Apache, Sendmail, PostgreSQL, and Perl). Distributed Alex servers run on Linux and all flavors of UNIX and are accessible from any web browser on any platform on any operating system.

*MAS®, the Media Application Server™ is a multimedia routing server that moves media data across the Internet virtually in real time, ensuring quality presentation of audio, video, and other time-sensitive information. MAS® is a product of a commitment by major industry sectors to support open source products as critical components in their basic technology.