Making the most of Open Source
Choosing the right open source solutions for your organisation can be a daunting prospect. There are literally thousands of open source projects, covering every major sphere of software development. How do you choose the right option?
That’s where Chiconi Technologies comes in. We will help you to evaluate the open source options and to select the product that best meets your business needs.
What is open source software?
Open source software is just that: software where the source code is openly available, and can be freely modified and redistributed.
The basic principal is simple: when programmers have unrestricted access to the source code of a piece of software that people improve it, adapt it and fix bugs. It evolves, and over time this global-collaboration can produce robust, feature rich and scaleable software solutions that often outperform their proprietary counterparts.
Why choose open source?
By definition, open source software has no licensing costs, so it’s cheap to deploy. And with fully accessible source code and a host of technology companies vying to offer professional support, vendor lock is no longer an issue.
Open source software, when properly selected and deployed can:
Reduce total cost of ownership (TCO)
Increase competitiveness
Improved interoperability
Reduce administration costs
Increase flexibility
Where is it used?
In some areas open source software is particularly prevalent… one of the best known is the operating system GNU/Linux, and another is the Apache Webserver, one of the most widespread webservers on the internet.
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