Open Sea Consulting provides C++ expertise and services to the enterprise market, with experience in the use of commercial and open resources for C++ development. We are strong proponents for prudent use of Open Source C++ resources in enterprise projects, offering a balanced perspective on appropriate open source technologies for use in production systems.

Focused on bringing the power of open C++ resources to enterprise development, Open Sea Consulting delivers valuable expertise to C++ development projects. Open Sea Consulting is a strong proponent of open source technologies (more at OpenCPP.org), offering a wealth of experience in proven patterns for enterprise C++ applications. Open Sea Consulting was founded in November of 2004, and is located in Marietta, Georgia.

James Fowler, our Principal Consultant, has been advising enterprise development teams since 1995. James spent a decade representing Rogue Wave Software, working with scores of corporate C++ projects.

Specific areas of expertise include:

• Minimal overhead visibility into process flow suitable for production use
• Instrumentation for consolidated control and monitoring of distributed applications
• Distributed, multi-threaded applications with high performance RDBMS access
• Integration with dynamic languages (embedding Python, TCL/TK, etc)
• Boost and Rogue Wave libraries
• Refactoring existing C++ applications, including automated parsing and code generation
• Security and Encryption, enabling compliance with Credit Card programs such as Visa's CISP / PCI
• Custom 2D / 3D visualization and control interfaces
• Data Acquisition, Automation and Machine Control based on modular event-flow architecture

A more detailed account of his experience is available in his resume (zipped Word format).

Information on Open Sea Consulting's infrstructure tools and components is available on the projects page.