Open
Source
Open
Source is the name of a group of software
developed for free usage. This community is
growing very fast and today more than a million
people are on daily basis building new and
improved functionality in both existing and new
software. There are today thousands of
programs delivered under the GNU license.
Several businesses also add on internal
developed functionality and often them self
offer their modules as open source.
There is a lot of good
arguments to select the open source alternative,
specially when reflecting price and ownership.
We have in Cosima decided to offer our clients
some of the most used and benchmarked open
source software either as an add-on to our
Cosima ValueChain suite or to offer and support
special demands at client site we do not support
on our own.
As you read this there are
thousands of developers all around the world
building and adapting open source software. As
of this large group of people working with the
software you now also get support when a problem
arise and you need some quick answers.
Most of the
companies and web sites you can get support
either have as a profession and you pay for
their services or the just do it for free and
you can fund them by clicking on an icon on
their web to do a online donation to the and/or
the Open Source community.
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