History
Reptile started out as a one man effort, in 2002, as a computer consulting, support, and services company for the medical industry. Focusing on high quality support, and known for its use of open source software and technologies. Reptile quickly grew, as its client list grew, bringing on additional staff, and expanding its client list to the entertainment industry. Later on that same year, Reptile made moves into application and systems development using technologies such as Mozilla's XUL, Mono, Linux, Apache, and PHP.
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