Open Source means Business

1 year ago by Tim Norton

As businesses around the world continue to build strong and successful businesses on the back of Open Source, the simple economics are starting to speak for themselves, Open Source saves people money and gets the IT industry focused on creating real value, not re-inventing the wheel.

Commercial and Tree-hugging all in one 

For those who need to make money but also like making a difference, you'll be pleased to know that beneath the commercial value of Open Source is a global movement, possibly the biggest global collaboration in history where people across the world are making better solutions for free, because we need them, and we need them to be open. Open Source is an alternative and compliment to the many proprietary and closed systems that leave many IT procurers stuck with often uncontrollable license costs.

Open Source going mainstream 

Awareness is growing among the IT community, business leaders and even the general public. While more prominent in other countries, Opensource is just starting to get some mainstream airtime with Wellington based web development company SilverStripe appearing along with one of their newly appointed board members Nat Torkington on the Close-up Show on TV.

Open Source is very business friendly

Every business needs to make money, and Open Source is not about businesses slaving away for free, its about raising the bar or IT, and ensuring that software providers focus on creating value, not re-inventing things that can be done for free. 

Building a global Brand and being a world leader 

After years of investment from the crew at SilverStripe, the business is now finding itself with the worlds leading opensource content management system, rivaling the existing top providers. What this means for business and people is that you can now get your hands on the best technology and be confident that the technogy is supported by not only the SilverStripe business but also a growing global community of developers and businesses who are making the SilverStripe content management system the driving force behind their websites.