Zaretto Company Overview

Formed by Richard Harrison and Richard Hart in 1992 to focus on software development and simulator maintenance, particularly the Rediffusion TASC and Rediffusion ACCESS Instructor Operating Stations (IOS). We have a proven track record of using our skills to create new software, but also to support maintain and enhance existing systems in a very cost effective manner.

Company Focus, yearly summary.

2007 proved to be another busy year for us, and the trend we have witnessed for the last few years is continuing, in that the bulk of our projects has been web based, from simple web-sites, ordering and ecommerce systems, to web applications. We realise that we have been developing using AJAX technologies for years, and even before the term was coined, but it is good to have some help and useful third party libraries such as scriptaculous to help us.

Recent published sites

In March 2008 we finished working on a Mexican furniture site based on Joomla and virtueMart. This is the first site we have developed using an external framework primarily chosen because the client required a comprehensive CMS and had a preference for Joomla. We have a site coming online soon that is using Drupal.

Most of our web sites are multi-lingual, usually with a Unicode backend and have been developed using our in house proprietary libraries.

Flight simulator IOS, TASC, CRDS replacements

The flight simulator operations is still a core of business although primarily we have been supporting existing customers. We are focussed in the development of the SwiftIOS replacement and should secure some orders soon. The hardcopy replacement system for Charles Rivers systems using old printers has been expanded and we can now offer replacement printing systems for Rediffusion (TT&S) SGI based IOS.
We have also commenced development of a replacement IOS system, that we hope to make available as GPL or OpenSource, we believe in OpenSource and with our experience in designing Instructor Operating Stations it makes intellectual sense to do it, the commercial aspects are under review.

CRDS Simulator IOS Upgrades

We have a targetted set of CRDS flight simulator products and services and have developed two products specifically designed to extend the training life of a simulator by replacing older technology with current technology. Specifically a replacement printer for Instructor Stations with Calcomp and Facit printers and a CRDS computer replacement.
We have performed upgrades and maintenance for GECapital Aviation Training, British Midland, Swiss Air Force, and Alaska Airlines.

Software Development

Since 1992 we have been providing custom software development to a number of clients worldwide. Our skills Languages: C, C++, Java, Borland Delphi, C++ Builder, VCL components, Visual Basic, Pascal, SQL Databases, CORBA, ISAPI, CGI, COM, DCOM, MFC, ATL, STL, Windows NT, Silicon Graphics, OpenVms. Find out more about our software development and projects