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Established in 1990, custom software development company The Lateral Alternative has built a reputation of technical excellence. Our polished procedures for specification and project management, coupled with state-of-the-art technical expertise, allow us to routinely deliver quality software on time and within budget.

Many companies declare that they are capable of delivering innovative products. Judge for yourself: visit our Case Studies to see what we have done.

With a background in the development of scientific and data-mining applications, we have developed a broad range of solutions from data-mining databases for diamond-deposit analysis and forecasting, to human resources modelling solutions used to match candidates with particular posts.

We've also worked extensively on the World Wide Web, designing massive back-end engines to drive highly interactive web sites.

Recent Work
We're doing Open Source in a big way. See our PHP-O-Lait project to bridge client-side JavaScript to server-side PHP in 2 lines of code.

On a fun note, Craig has finally put some of his 5 minutes guides online. These short meanderings describe something technical, or something interesting. There are only three so far, but more to come.

Learn More
To learn more about us, download our brochure in Acrobat PDF. You might need to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to read the PDF file.