About KO GmbH
KO GmbH is a consulting company with highly regarded experts in software development. KO GmbH offers professional services around the following areas of expertise:
- The Qt toolkit
Most of the employees are certified Qt Developers or Specialists. A number are also certified Qt specialists. We breath and live Qt and most of our projects are developed using the Qt toolkit. - HTML5
HTML5 is a way to create web applications in a way that makes them easy to package as a normal application. The bundle combines html files, javascript and style sheets and the end result is a portable application that can be run on almost any platform. KO has developed several applications from the simple to the very complex. Our most complex application so far is WebODF, a document viewer. See more at the WebODF homepage. -
The Calligra Suite
The OpenDocument-based Calligra Suite is the worlds leading open source based office suite for non-desktop use. KO GmbH will help companies and organization use Calligra in custom solutions e.g. office applications for smartphones and tablets or as built-in document generation components for in-house applications. -
Krita
Krita is an advance 2D painting application for professional artists. Krita offers a tremendous set of tools coupled with support for all industry standard file formats. This and the ability to handle images with sizes of 10s of thousands of pixels in each direction makes it the hot an upcoming tool in the movie VFX industry and games industry.
Products
KO GmbH offers a set of software produts. These are selected applications that are customized to work well for a specific market both by themselves and in collaboration with other industry-standard tools.
All Products are sold with extensive support and maintenance services. See the Products and Support pages respectively for more details.
Services
KO GmbH offers the following services to the market:
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Custom Development Around Krita
Krita is a supported product of KO GmbH under the name Krita Studio. KO also does custom development of Krita features and integration of Krita into a workflow with other tools. If you are a support customer you will get a lowered price here.
Services Around Supported Products
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Custom programming with Qt
KO GmbH has extensive expertise on Qt, the best cross-platform C++ toolkit there is. Qt that is the basis of the Linux desktop KDE as well as the internals of Calligra. We can therefore quickly create new components that fit into the rest of the suite or new features of existing components.
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Application development with HTML5
KO GmbH has advanced expertise on XML and HTML5 with its related technologies JavaScript and CSS. Our most advanced project using HTML5 is a document viewer for the Open Document Format (see above).
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Migration and conversion to OpenDocument
Consulting regarding migration from proprietary and closed formats to open formats in general and OpenDocument in particular.
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Consulting around the OpenDocument Format
The founders of KO GmbH have extensive knowledge about the OpenDocument Format, both from a standardization point of view and technical implementation.
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Training on OpenDocument and Calligra
This includes both user training and developer training for developers interested in creating extensions and customizations of Calligra.
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Customization of Calligra
Calligra is the most flexible and customizable office suite in existence. Calligra makes it easy to create tools suitable for a certain line of business, such as tools for movie script writers, lawyers or school education. It is also easy to extend the functionality in any direction that an organization needs or integrate it with existing tools. Additionally, the Calligra core engine is a great basis for custom office solutions, like the mobile office viewer applications KO developed with Nokia.
Software Development
Office and Document Management
About the Founders
CEO: Tobias Hintze
Tobias founded his first own company in 2000, focusing on maintenance for computer networks and some smaller software developing projects. Later, he founded "threllis GmbH" in 2006 as sole shareholder as an IT company selling services and equipment for IT infrastructures, including NOC-services like hosting and colocation. Tobias has his technical expertise mainly in UNIX-systems, networking, and security.
CTO: Boudewijn Rempt
Boudewijn has a MA in comparative linguistics from Leyden University in Holland. He founded Kura, an Open Source application for this field, currently maintained at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in München. His career in the IT industry has put him in positions as a developer, architect and project lead on such diverse projects as a mobile agent platform, traffic analysis and interactive computer graphics.
Boudewijn is currently the maintainer of the Krita paint application within Calligra. Krita received the award for the best application at the KDE conference Akademy in Dublin 2006.
Sales & Marketing: Inge Wallin
Inge has a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Linköping University in Sweden. He co-founded Cendio AB in 1992, a company which today is the oldest Open Source company in the world, at least as far as he knows. Inge worked as CEO for 9 years and is now a senior systems engineer. He is a member of the board of directors of Cendio AB and previously Ingate Systems AB, a leading vendor of firewalls.
Inge has contributed to a large variety of open source projects. During the last few years, he has concentrated his efforts to KDE where he has been mainly active in the educational effort kdeedu and the Calligra suite. He is currently the maintainer of KChart in Calligra, and has been functioning as the marketing coordinator first for KOffice then for Calligra since 2005.
