Horms Solutions Ltd.

Mission: To provide value to customers through high quality solutions.

Horms Solutions Ltd. is a boutique software engineering practice based in Tokyo and Kobe. The principal Simon Horman has more than ten years experience working with free and open source software, initially in operations and then as a developer.

Horms Solutions Ltd. offers software engineering services using the iterative open source software development life-cycle. This includes design, implementation, testing and integration. Horms Solutions Ltd. also offers advice on how organisations can use open source development techniques to improve their own internal development and integration processes.

Experience at a Glance: Linux Kernel: IPVS (LVS) and kexec-tools maintenance. eMMC and eSD zboot for SH-Mobile; Virtualisation: Kexec and multi-function PCI pass-through for Xen. Open vSwitch development.; High Availability and Load Balancing: haproxy Developer. Ldirectord maintainer.; Debian: Debian Maintainer. Member of linux-ha-maintainers. Former member of the Debian Kernel Team.; Messaging: Perdition POP, IMAP and manage sieve proxy project lead.; More on the projects and presentations page

Contact:: Email: Simon Horman <simon at horms.net>; Phone: +81 3 6365 5977; Fax: +81 3 6673 4268

Recent News

Perdition 1.19-rc5 Released

Simon Horman of Horms Solutions has released version 1.19-rc5 of Perdition. The key changes are:

ldap: fix segmentation fault in dbserver_get2()
Manage-sieve: Fix handling of plain login which would segmentation fault in some cases
Manage-sieve: Fix handling of long authentication hashes
Enhance --bind_address option parsing to handle IPv6 addresses
Fix 8/4byte integer type miss-matches which may lead to undefined behaviour

The code and related libraries are available as tarballs here. More information is available in the announcement email. More information about perdition here.

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:25:20 +0900| Permalink

An Introduction to Open vSwitch

Simon Horman will be giving a presentation covering the basics of Open vSwitch at Linux.Conf.Au, 16th-20th January, Ballarat, Australia.

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:40:40 +0900| Permalink

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