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Tuesday 18 November 2008, 4:48 PM
Trendy Solutions… or How Pre-built Open Source Rocks the Crisis
Software is the last thing you want to sweat about in this situation. So when your business depends on commercial software and it lets you down, things can really suck.
It’s interesting to watch how financial crisis makes a lot of companies previously skeptical of open source and software as a service turn to these two and try to get the most of them.
Open source looks appealing because it’s free for the most part and, you literally have a 24/7 support from a community of extremely committed developers.
SaaS is good because most of the work is already done for you, and subscription-based payment plans tend to be tempting.
Let’s go further though, to the pre-built solutions. These are even better, as they rid you of all manual coding and let anyone (Literally. Anyone.) on the staff “watch and relax”, making minimum to no effort at all.
Open source is free and out there available to everyone. You’re not making a long-term financial commitment by trying it. Neither are you sweating it while getting your bearings in a new pre-built technology. Work’s done for you. So, it’s like there’s a bonus that comes with a pie: not only are you saving money, you’re saving loads of time and increasing the overall efficiency.
Pre-built open source, the new green (pink, red… whatever), is it?
PreviousComments on this post
It's interesting to note that microsoft are rumored to have plans to offer startups 3 years of free office software. What pre built open source needs to look out for is that XP is often unstable with certain software when running in anything other than the systems own administrator account. Even the named admin accounts won't cut the mustard at times. Older versions of coral draw being a prime example.
Timely article Alena. SaS, I think, is going to be a big deal, when it matures.
Gael Duval, founder of Mandrake-Mandriva Linux has already gotten the ball rolling. Check out his solution at : http://www.ulteo.com/
I have used it and love it. You use the apps, keep your work on his server, and go merrily on your way.
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