An experienced North Carolina Web services provider has adopted a Professional OPenSource business strategy and is increasing its team for a full court press.

David Hustace, Product Manager and Network Management Consultant of Tavve Software Company, has joined Blast Internet Services as Director of Professional Services.

Blast Internet is well known for its Web development and Web hosting services and has recently adopted a "Professional OpenSource" business strategy. The company is the corporate sponsor of OpenNMS™ (an OpenSource software project) and provides support, consulting, training, and custom development for OpenNMS.

In his career, David has worked as a network management consultant with other local firms, Strategic Technologies and Mobile Reach. He also completed 22 years of service as an officer in the Army National Guard.

About Blast Internet Services
Blast Internet Services is a Web development company that stages ecommerce, online marketing, and Web applications using open source platforms and tools. The company maintains the OpenNMS™ project, which is the world's first enterprise-grade network management platform published under the open source model.

Blast is also the creator of White Dwarf, an embedded Linux distribution which is rapidly becoming a “wireless O/S,” and is the author of Blast Open Parser, a rapid ecommerce development tool which is published under the GPL. In addition, Blast Internet is the source of Blast Software, for more than twenty years a leader in multi-platform file transfer automation.