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We minimize risk, increase productivity and enhance collaboration by leveraging the awesome power of open source technologies. We incorporate open source software and technologies in everything we do because it provides higher security, performance and is continually evolving in real time as developers add and modify it. Open source developers choose to make the source code of their software publicly available which enables tons of users to analyse and weeding out problems. Its shared development harnesses the benevolent brilliance of thousands around the world who are continually developing, improving, and evolving its core. Instead of just having a few developers, a worldwide community is collaborating together to build something awesome and the end product results in better quality software that is less prone to bugs.

Cost Effective

Open source solutions are free and it has been estimated that open source software collectively saves businesses $60 billion a year. Between the purchase price of the software itself, the exorbitant cost of mandatory virus protection, support charges, ongoing upgrade expenses and the costs associated with being locked in, proprietary software takes more out of your business than you probably even realize. And for what? You can get better quality at a fraction of the price. These days for virtually every paid for proprietary software system you will find an open source version.

Higher Security

Open Source solutions are not only extremely cost effective, they provide higher security and performance than proprietary solutions! Open source is tightly regimented in the version control of code within the development cycle and the code review and inclusion is cross checked by many eyes that come from many different points of view resulting in greater security and stability to that found in proprietary solutions.

Excellent Quality & Stability

Just as there are countless developers and users working to improve the security of open source software, so are there just as many innovating new features and enhancements to those products. In general, open source software gets closest to what users want because those users can have a hand in making it so. It's not a matter of the vendor giving users what it thinks they want--users and developers make what they want, and they make it well.

User Customizability & Flexibility

Using open source software means you are not locked in to using a particular vendor’s system that only work with their other systems. Another key reason why we focuse on using open source technologies is because unlike proprietary software, business users can take a piece of open source software code and modify it to add the functionality that suits their specific needs. When your business uses proprietary software, you are on a treadmill that requires you to keep upgrading both software and hardware ad infinitum. Open source software, on the other hand, is typically much less resource-intensive, meaning that you can run it well even on older hardware. It's up to you--not some vendor--to decide when it's time to upgrade.

When businesses turn to open source software, they free themselves from the severe vendor lock-in that can afflict users of proprietary packages. Customers of such vendors are at the mercy of the vendor's vision, requirements, dictates, prices, priorities and timetable, and that limits what they can do with the products they're paying for.

Exceptional Technical Support

Another key reason why we focuse on using open-source technologies is because unlike proprietary software, business users can take a piece of open source software code and modify it to add the functionality that suits their specific needs. When your business uses proprietary software, you are on a treadmill that requires you to keep upgrading both software and hardware ad infinitum. Open source software, on the other hand, is typically much less resource-intensive, meaning that you can run it well even on older hardware. It's up to you--not some vendor--to decide when it's time to upgrade.