Open Source Mission
The free software movement was already launched back in 1983. And in 1998, a group of developers proposed to replace the term of “free software” by the “open source software” (or OSS). This term revealed to be less ambiguous and more comfortable for the corporate world.
The fact that the idea of open source software was conceived more than 20 years ago, it means that the developers and customers really needed new way of software ‘consumption’. In big companies sometimes IT budget can constitute as much as 15% of overall company’s costs. It includes software license purchase, software installation, employees’ trainings, and further support. All these operations are carried out by original developers which obviously increases operations cost. Besides, SME could probably not afford such costs level, and this was considerably reducing their competitive edges.
All these factors became the basement for main open source mission.
The main mission of open source software products is to make the software products available for a larger range of customers. Thus the open source collaboration model appears like a more effective and customer oriented one.
Also the open source software model is aimed at overall investments savings, especially in the field of research and development. On the one hand, companies do not need develop their own software products or generate important expenditure on license purchasing. But on the other hand, software traders or service providers redistribute a discrete piece of open source software instead of developing their own software for this aim. Both approaches save companies from reverse engineering or licensing the “closed-source” software.
iTec Group company entirely supports these trends and ideas because we consider open source software as one of the most promising and actual development trends. We support the idea that only sharing experience and technologies the IT community can achieve some real qualitative changes. In this prospective we provide a wide range of services related to open source model.
You can see them in details in the following sections:
