The best things in life are free

The Geek Gene delivers Internet solutions leveraging existing open source software which carries no license fee. We specialize in communications, information flow, and operations and sales management.

Why open source software?

• Lower costs to set up and maintain your software
• A flexibility of approach without proprietary boundaries
• Easy access to product upgrades, bug fixes and user support that you don't have to pay for
• The freedom to move your solution to whatever hosting and maintenance provider you choose
• The model of propietary software is based on industrial age notions of intellectual property. In an Information Age, ideas gain value when shared. Software increases in value as it becomes an open standard. To hoard source code and treat our software as a trade secret would be cutting ourselves off from the global community of developers and get left behind in ever-changing technology growth.

• We use existing open source software, so you don't pay licensing fees.
• We contribute the software we build to the open source community.

How do we get paid?

• Even though there isn't a software license, there is still significant expertise required to make your solution work. Things you pay for when deploying a solution can include: installation, configuration, customization, support, maintenance, training, and hosting.
• You could also pay for strategic IT planning, customized solution design and development, and the graphic design and implementation of web sites.

View more about the services we provide, the products we use, and our recent client projects.

As a community, we believe that collaborative development is key to building useful software that can evolve beyond what a few developers can create and maintain. We operate our company inside of this context, providing opportunities for geeks to participate in the ways most interesting to them. This allows us to draw from a base of talented developers with a wide variety of expertise. If you are a geek interested in building cool software, find out more about how you can participate with us.