Open source: the future of computing

Open Source Strategy

Open Source is now clearly perceived as the key to future innovation and has become an expected part of an IT strategy. There are several thousand open source products, solutions and service vendors.

Compared to traditional software, using successful open source components offers some key advantages for the enterprise:

  • Lower cost of operation.
  • Reliability and performance.
  • Ease of deployment.
  • Freedom from platform lock-in.
  • Security.

Besides open source, products can also be used as framework for client customized applications. According to Accenture, using open source software as the basis of clients development can cut their development time and budget by 50 percent.

Today, we are seeing open source market enter its second generation. Those second generation open source companies provide:

  • Commercial support
  • Training and consulting
  • Responsibility for product roadmap
  • Large number of third-party tools
  • Clear documentation and best practices resources available to ensure clients success

This gives enterprises the best of both worlds enterprise-grade software without the risk of platform lock-in.

Many of the world largest organizations, including Yahoo!, Cox Communications, The Associated Press, Google, and NASA, are realizing significant cost savings by using open source products to power web sites, business-critical enterprise applications and packaged software.

As customers are under pressure to “do more with less,” or if they are seeking ways to reduce costs while maintaining quality and performance in their infrastructure, we can help them to develop an open source strategy that identifies their needs while addressing the concerns that their company management might have with Open Source products. We won’t just give advice. After helping them to define their strategy, to choose a product or to identify their requirements, we will implement, develop and support their solution.

Evobilis can help the client to define a strategy around seven open source segments:

  • Enterprise applications (office automation, management, CRM, content management, business intelligence)
  • Development tools (applications, collaboration, project management)
  • Web servers
  • Application software (middleware, enterprise service bus, integration, portals)
  • Databases
  • Operating systems.
  • Security (firewall, IPS-IDS, sniffer, proxy, antivirus, anti-spam etc.)