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Why Open Source is hot now?
Topic: Enterprise Management
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With the deepening of the credit crisis, melt down in the financial industry, the IT budgets in the big companies is under squeeze.
Companies are looking at optimizing their IT budgets and seriously looking at Return on their investments. The commercial software license costs; be in hardware, operating system, infrastructure, database, commercial applications and consulting & support, is being reviewed and seriously considered for optimizing and cost cutting.
Open source software and solutions have a great opportunity to survive and benefit in this economy as they provide better returns for the companies that are looking to save huge licensing costs and greater availability of solutions and software that can be easily adopted.
Open source software and solutions have matured over years and a bigger community to support them. There are several solutions from multiple vendors for business problems and substantially less expensive compared to commercial software from the proprietary software companies.
According to statistics, open source solutions did really well during the last economic downturn in the year 2000 and 2001.
Aghreni technologies started at Bangalore, India realizing the potential of open-source technologies and solutions and its impact on society and enterprises, is focusing on providing open source technology services and solutions.
Aghreni's business solutions practices provides consulting and implementation services major open source ERP, BI, Content Management and Email Marketing applications.
Aghreni provides product incubation and services on open source technologies like Java, perl and php. It has an interesting mix of services on open source technologies and trying to promote them in a big way. It has also embarked in creating the talent pool locally through their education services targeted at college students who would like to build their career on open source technologies early in their college.
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When you look at the recent launch of Google’s Android platform, and Apple’s decision to scrap the NDA previously placed on developers working with the iPhone, it’s clear to see that the open source model is going from strength to strength at the moment. There are many factors for this, but the impact of the current economic climate should certainly not be underestimated.
By opening up their platforms, Apple and Google are enabling application developers from all over the world to get involved and compete for revenues, so it stands to reason that prices will remain competitive. At a time when people all across the board are feeling the pinch, this can only be a good thing for businesses and consumers alike.
Thanks for a very interesting article. I missed some more examples and most important naming the fact of the incredible growth of open source content management systems. One such system which is written in the original Perl scripting language (an open source culture for itself!) is the WebAPP CMS. There are several others too. It is peculiar that PHP CMS are growing in even a faster great, I assume that this is because it is easy to learn and use PHP then Perl. But when it comes to security I would recommend you all to stick to Perl Open Source solutions. See CPAN for those incredible and..nearly infinite open source Perl modules as an example.
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