Consulting Knowledge

Knowledge of the Latest Technologies
Because our consultants are interested in their work, we keep abreast of the latest developments in software engineering and technology. However, as seasoned developers and business professionals, we apply technology based on four principles (1) does it solve the problem at hand (2) what is the likely future of the technology (3) does the technology allow a more innovative solution to the problem than other technologies (4) how maintainable is software developed with the technology.

Areas Of Experience
Potomac Software has experience with the following software technologies:

Object-oriented analysis and design using UML and Rational tools

Java and J2EE technologies, including JSP, servlets, STRUTS, EJB, MDB, JMS, JDBC, applets, RMI and Swing

Relational Database Management, including Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Informix and Unify

XML, including tools such as SAX, DOM, JAXP and JAXM and XML technologies like XSLT, XML Schema, XPath and DTDs

Web User Interface technologies such as Javascript and DHTML

Weblogic, Websphere, JRun, JBOSS and Tomcat application servers

C++ and C, including MFC, Windows SDK and Unix development

Operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and UNIX, including Solaris and Linux

TCP/IP, including Berkeley sockets and WinSock

Web and Internet protocols including SOAP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, TELNET, LDAP and SNMP

IPC under UNIX and NT, including shared memory, message queues, pipes, events and semaphores

Shell scripts and Perl

Directory services and APIs, including LDAP, JNDI, iPlanet and OpenLdap

Multithreaded and multiprocessing programming

Class library and framework design and implementation

Serial communications

Computer language design and implementation