Open Source Solutions

Much has been reported about Open Source technologies and now, with such a focus on cost savings in today's economy, organisations are asking whether open source technologies are able to deliver the appropriate level of functionality to the standards required by industry.  With $60 billion of software sales revenue lost to open source solutions each year, the answer is almost certainly yes.

These are the questions we are most frequently asked about open source:

• What is Open Source and what can it do? The simple answer is that there is an Open Source application for most typical requirements. A good understanding of the Open Source domain and an analysis of the options should be able to identify a suitable solution.
• Does the business case stack up? Definitely. Open Source solutions are available at a very low cost and the additional cost of tailoring them amounts to far less than most proprietary solutions.
• Can it really deliver? Yes. Open Source solutions are used successfully by thousands of large organisations every day.
• How can it be implemented and supported? We can implement almost any Open Source technology for you, as well as offering you a warranty and full support for the software implemented.
• Is it secure, scalable, manageable and reliable? Yes, we have carried out extensive testing of open source solutions and can discuss our findings with you.
• Is it really free? Open source solutions often have a free version, but you may have to pay extra for enterprise level functionality. This is still at a very low cost compared to proprietary software

A full white paper is available on request.

System Associates have implemented Lucene, Solr, Linux, MySQL, ImageMagick, Apache, Tomcat, Open Office, Joomla, Umbraco, SNORT, IPTables, Drupal, OpenKM and other Open Source packages for our customers and have experience of many others such as Asterisk, Cassandra, SugarCRM, Ubuntu Cloud, Open Calais, UIMA and JBOSS.