I have listed my most important arguments for using Open Source:
Deliver faster and better service for your customer
Controlling
the business code
all the dependencies
Easier to
share internally
improve quality for your company
Reduce amount of
special knowledge needed internally
documentation needed
Free from
the high cost
inflexible software
vendor lock-in risks of traditional enterprise software (read: reduce software cost)
Free to outsource
Most outsourcing partners use open source
Easier for outsourcing partners to implement open-source solutions
Over the years companies has experienced that Open Source software seems more stable and easier to check than closed code. Especially when we have technical problems it is much easier to find and fix errors them before they create problems for our customer. This argument has been more important than saving money on different software license programs.
My blog is basically about Architecture frameworks and Open Source. Architecture framework which defines how to organize the structure and views associated with an enterprise architecture. Client/Server solutions based on Open Source. Open Source (In house developed Source Code, external Open Source code). Development toolbox based on Open Source (Build tool, Version control, Test tools). Keywords her are Architecture framework and Open Source
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Why your company should use Open Source?
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Open Source code
- http://jakarta.apache.org: The Jakarta Project offers a diverse set of open source Java solutions and is a part of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) which encourages a collaborative, consensus-based development process under an open software license.
- http://www.sourceforge.com: Open Source market place which is not only limited to Java source code. Also a meeting place for people and companies who want open source develop. This is place for both developer and people/companies that founds the different projects.
- http://www.collab.net/: Open Source marked place which is not only limited to Java source code
- http://www.gjt.org/: Called Giant Java Tree and is limited to code that follows the GNU Public License.
- http://www.gamelan.com/: This site Gamelan is well known and has been around for a while. This site has been commercialized and is now part of http://www.developer.com