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Orange and Bronze Software Labs (O&B) is a privately-owned software development company based in the Philippines. The company delivers software consulting, product engineering, and IT training services with a focus on Java technology.

O&B develops software using the Agile methods for software development (see Agile software development). The company is also the first Philippine-based SpringSource partner and listed as a Grails (see Grails (framework)) development firm.

O&B is also a Google Enterprise Partner, offering solutions for Google productivity solutions, including Google Apps, Google Earth, Google Maps, and Postini.

History
Orange and Bronze was founded in July 2005 by Calen Martin Legaspi and Renato "Butch" Landingin. Calen Legaspi says that they “wanted to establish a technology-oriented company that Filipinos can be proud of...we would also want to contribute to global programming standards, create new technologies and be with the same level together with globally-respected companies like Google, Microsoft and BoostPro.”

The company started as a two-man consulting firm doing software training for local software companies. Their clients eventually hired them as software consultants, before the company ventured into offshore software development projects. This paved the way for Google, SpringSource and Pentaho to reach out to O&B and forge partnerships with the company.

Founders
Calen Legaspi co-founded PinoyJUG, or the Assocation of Philippine Java Developers. He is currently part of the Technology Council for the Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) as Directory for Technology. He is also the official representative to the Philippine Commission on Higher Education (CHED) (see Commission on Higher Education (Philippines) Technical Committee on Computer Science.

Services
O&B offers consulting and offshore product development services with a focus on Enterprise Java and Agile software development. This focus is due to co-founder Calen Legaspi’s belief that “other competing technologies have not yet been able to reach the maturity or industry acceptance of Java. This is why companies with huge scalability and security requirements like Google, Twitter, Ebay and LinkedIn use Java for much of their core systems”.

Incubation
Through the company’s technopreneurship program, O&B incubated the Google Maps-based real estate search site, Haybol.ph in 2010, founded by O&B employees Edge Dalmacio and Lorenzo Dee.

Open Source Contributions
Renato “Butch” Landingin, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, is the author of an Open Source application called Squishdot, a news and publishing content management system, used by KDE Dot News.

Michael Mallete, the Vice President for Consulting Services, developed open source applications S2PFace, Grails SoundManager Plugin and Robot Framework Maven Plugin.