It also means that we produce Free Software and we take part in the developement process: this let us in touch with the most important innovations in our fields, improves the level of our services we sell, and have a positive effect on the overall quality of the software we run.

So, Plone is the platform of choice, values (and code) are mostly shared with the Open Source community, skills and experience are all provided from the Reflab team.

Free software ethics and Open Source Business with Plone

Associates and Employees
We like to work with people that believe in the Plone project as we do. We encourage people that work with us to give their contribution to the community.

Partnerships
We have a passion for excellence and we think that sometimes the best results are reached with shared efforts.

This is the reason why we build business networks and share our knowledge with similar companies in a way that we call friendly competition. Sometimes we join with other companies to become business partners in worldwide projects.

Customers
Customers working with Reflab can benefit from Free Software in many ways: there is no lock-in risk, products can always be adapted to fit requirements and customizations are easily made available to the client; also, companies that need innovation may be the first to support great developement efforts and then give back improvements and products to the community.

This is usually leads a positive offset in control and technology transfer, which Reflab always encourage.

We intend to establish trust and a good working relationship. This is our main concern when setting up a project. We've learned  to spend time at the beginning building the team: trust requires time, and shall be mutual.

Reflab Commitment

Reflab complies with the purpose to promote, protect and deploy Plone and is playing an active role in the Zope / Plone community.

Reflab is part of ZEA, the international non-profit business network of companies building Zope systems and partecipates to the Zope Italia project and website. Team members are members of the Plone Foundation.

On the developement side, Reflab developes or contributes to developement software products, like Reflow, CMFEditions, PloneWorkflow, Plone Campus; Reflab Project Manager Vincenzo Di Somma is currently member of the Plone 3 framework team.