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Prometheon, Inc Consulting

Tiburon weather’s the economic downtown by using reliable open source software

July 14th, 2009 by rnix

Tiburon Homes, LLC a leading home builder in Chicago’s affluent suburbs, uses mainly open source applications to keep it’s business running smoothly.  Using a combination of ClamWin Antivirus to protect it’s desktops from viruses and malware, Zimbra to run mission critical email, calendaring and scheduling, and TightVNC to provide remote desktop support, Tiburon has saved thousands hard costs such annual license renewals and in soft costs such as lost productivity due to unreliable proprietary products.

Tiburon Homes, LLC switches to Zimbra

February 12th, 2009 by rnix

Tiburon Homes, a luxury home builder located in Hinsdale, Illinois has switched to Zimbra to provide it’s office with integrated email, calendaring, document management and project management.  By consolidating these services onto Zimbra, Tiburon realized a cost savings of $500 in the first 6 months.  What’s more, Zimbra has provided field personnel with the ability to sync their Blackberry and iPhones devices over-the-air for a fraction of the cost if they had gone with a proprietary solution like Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes.

Hardworkingwoman.com

February 2nd, 2008 by rnix

Hardworkingwoman.com is a company dedicated to the working woman, whether they are a stay at home mother, working professional, wife or you name it. HWW.com sells cool, hip t-shirts, blogs about issues important to working mothers, and provides a community to help women share their experiences of being a hardworking woman!

Prometheon used a variety of open source software components to drive the HWW.com community of sites. Wordpress is used to drive the Gabfest website where members can discuss issues, OS Commerce is was customized to run the t-shirt store, and finally, Gallery2 was customized to provide an area where pictures can be uploaded with the greatest of easy no matter what type of computer the HWW member is using.

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St. Francis de Sales Catholic Parish

February 2nd, 2008 by rnix

Located in Lake Zurich, IL. the community of St. Francis de Sales Parish came into existence on June 27, 1948 when Lake Zurich became a mission territory. Fr. George Ballweber of Buffalo Grove celebrated the first Mass held in Lake Zurich in the Ela Town Hall. Due to the hard work and sacrifices of the original 97 Catholic families in town, funds began to accumulate for the building of a church.

Prometheon installed and customized the open source content management system Mambo to meet their needs of a beautiful, easy to update website that had two distinctive looks for both their Parish and their school.

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Major’s Used Trucks

February 2nd, 2008 by rnix

Located in Oklahoma City, OK, Major’s Used Trucks provides high quality refurbished semi-trucks, and trailers.

Prometheon built Major’s a high quality website built on open source software that was able to able to help their staff keep up with their ever changing inventory, and provide prospective customers with accurate information on pertinent items related to their purchase.

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