Open source into proprietary data centers

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Companies increasingly prefer to compare open source applications with proprietary applications of business. As the cost of business software is rising, the appeal of open source is becoming more obvious.

Open source applications have long been viewed as a niche solution that is not suitable for critical business processes. In the past, its scope of application was limited to academic research. New variants of this pattern appear, providing business-level software support and legal protection. Enterprise-Class Open source application software is expected to be a priority solution.

How to embrace open source?

Linux operating systems occupy a pivotal position in the global data center. Users can choose to use a public Linux solution or use a business support version to provide support options and service-level terms.

Other widely used open source solutions include content management software, application server facilities, and Web browsers. Each category has strong support for collaborative, open, and practical software licensing, providing software for public utilities. These solutions not only provide strong core functionality, they also include development-level documentation, APIs, and access to hundreds of additional modules.

In the application domain, such as CRM and ERP business application acceptance is more and more high. For example, I know of a large government supplier using open source ERP to provide supply chain logistics to the Pentagon. Open Source solutions provide the basic functionality that supports business requirements, including managing more than millions of repository projects across 20 locations worldwide.

Commercial level Open Source software

Some commercial-level open source software will fully support and upgrade the perfect combination, without licensing fees, you can access the source code. This value proposition is striking: the only cost is a very inexpensive annual maintenance, designed based on modularity and scalability, with a large open source library, enhanced applications, full support for the software, and all source code and executables.

Open Source: Next Generation

It may be that software developers continue to release proprietary software solutions that do not give the user source code, but we haven't seen that happen yet. Alternatively, the Open-source vendor distributes the software and source code free of charge, expecting a large number of users to enhance and expand the software to add value to the software.

Commercial support for open source software, such as upgrades, bug fixes, and version updates, eliminates the widespread use of open source barriers by large companies. The next wave of open source movement has come, and it should be carefully factored into the business application.

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