Web sites and applications for small business have undergone a dramatic transformation over the last 5 years. What would previously have cost tens of thousands of dollars can now be done using open source software and cheap commodity Internet server space for a fraction of the price.

eCommerce 

Ecommerce now is a breeze. The ecommerce payments giant Paypal provides lost cost processing with simple interfaces that suit the smallest to the largest ecommerce operations.

Web Site Design 

The site itself can be presented professionally at low cost by using proven reliability and presentation provided by open source CMS such as our preferred tool, Mambo. There is no need to hire expensive graphic designers, and no need to suffer the indignity of amateur design. The age of small business on the Internet has arrived at a price the smallest of businesses can afford. If you have a product with a niche market, we can make it happen for your business.

Security

The security headaches that plagued eCommerce in the early years have largely fallen away thanks to the depressingly simple solutions available since payment processing giants like Paypal stepped into the field. Now the financial data does not have to be stored on the merchant's web site - it passes straight from the customer to Paypal, and a few seconds later the money is in your bank account and audit trail data is on your email server. The result is that ecommerce can be reliably and securely provided by the smallest of businesses.

 Back-end Database Applications

The ability to provide data storage and complex manipulation services to customers  cheaply and in real time  opens up scores of new markets for the provision of services customers are willing to pay for. In fields ranging from astronomical observations to project scheduling, new services are being provided daily that earn their owners returns either from direct charging for the services or from advertising. Again, the LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP-Perl) environment on low cost commodity Internet server space makes these sort of applications feasible at a fraction of the cost. Now all you need to pay for is the programming, and that can be provided from anywhere in the world, even Tasmania.

System administration services can be provided either on-site or remotely via the Internet for:

• Unix - Linux, Solaris
  
• Windows

The chief programmer, Graham Chapman, has 25 years IT experience in environments ranging from PCs to mainframes, covering programming in assembler to 4GL's to C to PHP. Specialities are:

• LAMP - Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP-Perl
• web programming

BreedIT Alpaca is a program that manages breeding data for alpaca breeders. At present a web-based prototype has been produced. The current development roadmap calls for:

• a Windows 2000/XP standalone version
• expansion of the BreedIT family to cover other animals

Welcome to Patia! We are a small computer consulting company in Tasmania, Australia, specialising in:

• web services - web site construction, including backend database applications
  
• programming - from assembler to PHP and most things in between
• system administration - Linux, Solaris, Windows