Orange and Bronze Software Labs

Orange and Bronze Software Labs, commonly known as Orange and Bronze or O&B, is a privately owned Philippine software-development and consulting company. Founded in July 2005 by Calen Martin Legaspi and Renato "Butch" Landingin, it began as a two-person consultancy providing software training to local technology companies. As clients began engaging the founders for broader technical consulting, the business expanded into offshore software development and product engineering. The company’s technical specialization is centered on Java and related enterprise technologies. Its work has included the design, development, deployment, and support of web applications built with technologies such as the Spring Framework, Grails, Hibernate, Google Maps API, Google App Engine, and Android. O&B has also promoted Agile software-development methods and has offered architecture, Scrum, and Extreme Programming training alongside implementation services. O&B’s business model combines professional services, technical education, platform implementation, and technology partnerships. It became the first Philippine-based SpringSource partner, at a time when SpringSource was the commercial organization associated with the Spring ecosystem, and was listed as a Grails development company. The company was also an authorized reseller of Pentaho’s Business Intelligence Suite and was identified as a Google Enterprise Partner in the Philippines. Its Google-related work included enterprise Google Apps implementations, change-management training, and large-scale deployments, including a reported 600,000-license government-institution rollout. Other cited projects involved migration from legacy systems for the Philippine Department of Finance and Pointwest Technologies. Training has been an important part of the brand. Through its O&B University program, the company has offered courses covering Java, Spring, Hibernate, Groovy, Grails, Apache Struts, JavaServer Faces, enterprise architecture, Agile methods, Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Android development. This education activity reflects the company’s origins as a training-led consultancy and its broader role in the Philippine Java and software-engineering community. O&B has also pursued technology incubation. Its technopreneurship program supported Haybol.ph, a Google Maps-based real-estate search service founded by employees Edge Dalmacio and Lorenzo Dee in 2010. It incubated Kandroid, an Android application developed by MilObjects Software for visualizing and controlling personal tasks. In 2012, it incubated Open for Business Online, or O4BO, a subscription-based software-as-a-service offering built around open-source enterprise tools including Liferay, Openbravo, Apache Jackrabbit, and SugarCRM. Open source is a recurring part of O&B’s technical identity. The company has encouraged employee contributions, while members of its team have developed or maintained projects such as Squishdot, Batman-Con, S2PFace, the Grails SoundManager Plugin, the Robot Framework Maven Plugin, and JCIMD. Publicly available material describes the company as a specialist technology-services firm rather than a mass-market software brand. A Wikipedia account reported a headcount of 90 employees in March 2011; no current workforce figure is established here.

Orange and Bronze Software Labs was established in July 2005 by Calen Martin Legaspi and Renato "Butch" Landingin. The founders initially operated as a two-person consulting and training practice serving Philippine software companies. Their early work focused on teaching software-development skills, but client demand led them into consulting engagements and eventually into offshore software-development projects. The company developed a technical identity around Java and enterprise application engineering. Its practice covered Spring, Grails, Hibernate, Google application platforms, Android, and related web technologies. O&B also adopted Agile development methods and expanded its offering beyond implementation work to include software architecture, process guidance, and specialized engineering education. Partnerships and platform relationships became an important part of the company’s development. O&B was described as the first Philippine-based SpringSource partner and was listed as a Grails development company. It also became an authorized reseller of Pentaho’s Business Intelligence Suite and was identified as a Google Enterprise Partner in the Philippines. Its Google Apps work included large-scale deployment and change-management projects, including a reported implementation involving 600,000 licenses for a government institution. Other cited engagements involved legacy-system migration for the Department of Finance and Pointwest Technologies. Education remained central to the business. Through O&B University, the company offered courses in Java, Spring, Hibernate, Groovy, Grails, Struts, JavaServer Faces, enterprise architecture, Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Android. These activities complemented the company’s consulting work and connected it with the broader Philippine Java-development community. O&B later extended its activities into incubation and entrepreneurship. In 2010, its technopreneurship program incubated Haybol.ph, a Google Maps-based real-estate search service founded by employees Edge Dalmacio and Lorenzo Dee. The company also incubated Kandroid, an Android task-visualization application developed by MilObjects Software. In 2012, O&B incubated Open for Business Online, a subscription-based service that packaged open-source enterprise platforms such as Liferay, Openbravo, Apache Jackrabbit, and SugarCRM. Open-source participation has been another consistent theme. Co-founder and CTO Renato Landingin authored Squishdot, a Python- and Zope-based web publishing and discussion system, and Batman-Con, a Grails application for monitoring Spring Batch jobs. Other members of the organization were associated with open-source projects including S2PFace, the Grails SoundManager Plugin, the Robot Framework Maven Plugin, and JCIMD. A published company profile stated that O&B had 90 employees in March 2011. The available reference material does not establish its current size, ownership changes, or operating status.

• 2012

  Open for Business Online incubation

  [1]Orange and Bronze Software Labsen.wikipedia.org

  O&B incubated O4BO, a subscription service offering access to several open-source enterprise platforms through a software-as-a-service model.

• 2011

  Reported workforce milestone

  [1]Orange and Bronze Software Labsen.wikipedia.org

  A company profile reported that Orange and Bronze had reached 90 employees by March 2011.

• 2010

  Haybol.ph incubation

  [1]Orange and Bronze Software Labsen.wikipedia.org

  The company’s technopreneurship program incubated Haybol.ph, a Google Maps-based real-estate search service founded by O&B employees.

• 2005

  Company founded

  [1]Orange and Bronze Software Labsen.wikipedia.org

  Calen Martin Legaspi and Renato "Butch" Landingin founded Orange and Bronze in July as a two-person software-training and consulting firm.

A specialist Philippine technology-services firm positioned around Enterprise Java, open-source platforms, Agile delivery, technical training, and offshore software engineering.

• Professional services · 2005

  Enterprise Java and Agile consulting

  O&B’s core service practice covers software consulting and offshore product development for enterprise applications. Its technical focus includes Java-based web systems, Spring, Grails, Hibernate, application architecture, deployment, and Agile delivery methods. The offering is aimed at organizations needing engineering capacity, modernization support, or specialist guidance rather than a packaged consumer product.

• Technical education

  O&B University

  O&B University is the company’s training program for software professionals and technology organizations. Reported course areas include Java, Spring, Hibernate, Groovy, Grails, Apache Struts, JavaServer Faces, enterprise architecture, Agile with Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Android. The program extends the company’s original training-led consulting model.

• Software as a service · 2012

  Open for Business Online (O4BO)

  O4BO was an incubated subscription service designed to deliver open-source enterprise applications through a software-as-a-service model. The described portfolio included Liferay for enterprise portals, Openbravo for web-based enterprise resource planning, Apache Jackrabbit for content repositories, and SugarCRM for customer relationship management.

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