Open Source Web Site Packages.

Looking for a fully integrated Open Source package? eCommere? Blogging? Photo and Art Galleries? Audio Streaming? Video Streaming? Newsletters? They're all here! If you don't see what you are looking for, or have a specific request, we can probably save your research time (or speed it up) if you simply ask us.

Why Open Source Packages? - 3 easy reasons...

Quality and Reliability.

Open Surce can increase your web site quality and security. With closed source software, it's often difficult to evaluate the quality and security of the code. In addition, closed source software companies have an incentive to delay announcing security flaws or bugs in their product. Often this means that their customers don't learn of security flaws until weeks or months after the security exploit was known internally.

Open source systems are potentially subject to scrutiny by many people around the world. Therefore bugs, security flaws, and poor design cannot hide for long, at least when the software has a community of programmers to support it. And since fixing issues does not depened on a single vendor, patches and upgrades are often distributed much more rapidly than patches or upgrades to closed source systems.

Independance and Freedom.

Decreases vendor lock-in. Businesses no longer have to be locked-in to the actions (or inaction) of a sole-source vendor. No more paying a vendor for a needless upgrades to maintain compatability with others using the same packages. Business data is also more "future-proof", since most open source programs save text files in ANSI standard ASCII files, instead of proprietary binary formats. If the vendors training materials are inadequate, because they have access to the source code, external vendors can supply as good or better manuals or online help. Most successful open source system programs have extensive online FAQ's, manuals, and support forums.

Affordability and Cost Reduction.

Reduces cost of acquistion. Most open source software is available for free, or a nominal cost for the price of the media, or the time to download it. No more "per-seat" license fees. Reduced acquisition cost means that start-ups don't have to part with precious capital when they need it most. Established companies can try the software with minimual risks. If the company wants to develop a piece of software that they don't plan to use to differentiate themselves, they can reduce the cost by collaborating with several companies on the same code base. If you want to incorporate the code into your product, you don't have to pay a license fee.

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Image Galleries			We are also ardent promoters of the Open Source solutions. Why? Because, they provide more affordable, innovative, functional and productive solutions to the business community. We do not charge any cost for these packages - they are free! We only charge for the labour used to install (or customize packages). Just some of the packages we install for clients such as yourself... The Most Popular List osCommerce - eCommerce/online shopping. Moodle - Online learning. Joomla! - Portal/marketing. phpBB - Bulletin Board/Forum. Wordpress - Blog. Medi Wiki - Online information system. Coppermine - Online picture and photo gallery. If you have questions or require installation of any Open Source packages, feel free to contact us. The minimum recommended hosting service features for these packages are available in the Standard Hosting account.
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