Our chums at DataTherapy are actually hosting this very website. And they handle all IT support for Chris Manton's wife's animation and film production company too. Serious geeks with better hardware and connectivity than some multinationals, DataTherapy is a strategic technology company that, like BabelFix, offers bespoke software development, but also specialises in web systems, web and application hosting and infrastructure management.
We've done consultancy for them and they've done the same for us - each enjoying the advantage of the other's strengths...

Excelisys is one of the larger development houses in the USA. We can call on their considerable resources any time we need an extra hand, which, what with the time change, can make for a handy extra shift when deadlines are tight. During the late nineties Chris worked alongside Christo, Geoff and Andy at Advanced Database Systems for a couple of years, and during the last several annual developer conferences has come to know Greg and Kurt,their other pricipals, well too. They're good people and fun to be around.
We're pretty much their London office and vice-versa...

The directors of Linear Blue and BabelFix have been good mates for ages and, as with DataTherapy, we all know one and other as good friends as well as repected colleagues, often meeting up socially. Though our London Mews is pretty sweet, we do rather envy the green countryside setting of Linear Blue's palatial Hurst office in beautiful Berkshire and the fact that their London commute is far from every day.
Linear Blue's search engine optimisation and web design wing extends their capability beyond database development, for which they have some really excellent developers - we've exchanged talent more than once...

Damon Casey at Automating Data has become one of the UK's leaders in using Applescript with FileMaker.
He's so good that whenever we have a Mac solution with advanced Applescript requirements, he's our number one port of call...