Open source is widely accepted and popularly known for its better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in. Today, Open Source initiatives are equally competitive compared with any other proprietary solution frameworks or development platforms and profoundly leaping ahead by way of adoption by clients
SourceEdge initiatives on Open Source based development practice is evolved over years in response to growing demands from global clients. Today, the team is a matured outfit and demonstrated proven competency helping clients to realize the power of Open Source based solutions.
Why Open Source?
Open Source based development and solution offers larger benefits in terms of:
- Cost savings
- Higher stability
- Better access protection
- Higher performance
- Better functionality
The cost savings derived using Open Source based development approaches are because of:
- It is secure by design
- It is designed to interwork - published interfaces and no hidden code
- No forced change - it is written to ensure backwards compatibility
- Low cost or free license fees
- It is free from vendor lock in and vendor churn
Our expertise – Open Source CMS tools
We are continuously training, upgrading and scaling our resource pool dedicated to Open Source based development and research initiatives. While we are servicing our clients’ needs to customize and release productive solutions, we are consistently developing skills to use some of readily available tools, frameworks which are in wide use for quick time solutions. Our team is well versed in customization of such Open Source tools/frameworks like;
- Joomla – The powerful Content Management System (CMS) tool used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications
- Mambo – is a CMS framework used to develop and manage websites
- Drupal – is a CMS framework helps to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website
- Mantis - is a popular free web-based bug tracking system.
- Compiere – the smart Open Source ERP software with integrated CRM solution
- dotProject – The Open Source Project Management tool