Open source software development solutions for cost-effective and stable applications
As the world moves towards a more collaborative form of software development, many independent software vendors are leveraging the power of open source software to build new software products at a low cost. The major advantages that open source development promises include greater flexibility, peer review, development process transparency, ease of adaptation and change, and greater reliability.
SIDSOFT's team actively participates in several global open source communities. We constantly think of ways to reduce development costs for our clients by utilizing several packaged open source solutions and open standards for software development.
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The major advantages of development using open source software solutions are:
- The open source platforms are absolutely free to use with basic licensing requirements.
- Almost all domains have strong open source communities that help in reviewing and enhancing the software.
- The software is highly modular and therefore the developers can take advantage of utilizing the code that meets their needs.
- The application developed using open source technologies is highly flexible due to the scalable nature of the software.
Technical expertise:
SIDSOFT has expertise in the entire stack of open source LAMP technologies namely:
- Linux (operating system)
- Apache (web server)
- MySQL (database management system)
- PHP5 (programming language)
Our team has built many simple and complex applications and web-based solutions using open source technologies. Additionally, they have created several open source applications using Joomla, Drupal, Ruby on Rails, and leveraged DotNetNuke for web content management and SugarCRM for customer relationship management, among others.
With SIDSOFT's open source software development solutions you can:
- Reduce development costs significantly
- Minimize development time
- Get advanced features at low investment
- Achieve a stable and tested solution
- Enable adaptability and flexibility in your application
- Build an application that can run on many platforms and environments