With a staff of over 120 worldwide, Catalyst is the largest New Zealand owned open source company, and proud of it too.
Our commitment to open source goes beyond delivering its benefits to our clients. Catalyst developers are active contributors to a number of open source projects, including Debian, Ubuntu, CPAN, Geshi, the Linux Vserver and content management projects. Much of Catalyst's development is also done in the open. You can find experimental and feature branches for a number of projects in our repositories.
“When there are innovations which might benefit an OSS project, it makes good commercial sense to release them” says Catalyst Director Mike O'Connor
“If they are adopted into the mainstream project, we don't have to maintain a separate feature branch. Next time we use the package our features are hopefully bundled in and improved. That's a net benefit for all our current and future clients that use OSS software.”
Catalyst has also hosted the local Linux kernel and CPAN mirrors for a number of years at www.nz.kernel.org.
