Open Source

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Your Objectives

 
  • You are looking for low cost development of a new or existing website, intranet or extranet

Our Solution

Systemick are specialists in Open Source development in Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and throughout the north of England.

Here at SYSTEMICK we are passionate about open source. To us it is not simply a career choice, it is a way of life. More importantly, it brings a number of benefits not available from proprietary solutions that the customer and end user may not be aware of.

Cost
The first thing to be aware of is the cost. Open source software is free. Not many people are aware that there is an open source alternative to Microsoft Office that is available to download free of charge from the internet. Knowing this fact alone has just saved you nearly £100!!

Of course open source doesn't do everything a user requires stright out of the box which is why you need someone like SYSTEMICK to do the development. However the purchase costs, licensing costs and the cost of upgrading to the latest version are all absent when using open source. You pay the development costs and nothing more.

Quality
The basic idea behind open source is very simple. When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it; people adapt it; people fix bugs. Open source development is ideally suited to the infrastructure of the Internet and is becoming increasingly ubiquitous. It has the potential to move at speeds that put proprietary software development to shame.

Security
We can easily see that open source software has a distinct advantage over proprietary systems, since it is possible to easily and quickly identify potential security problems and correct them. Volunteers have created mailing lists and auditing groups to check for security issues in several important networking programs and operating system kernels, and now the security of open source software can be considered equal or better than that of desktop operating systems.

For a detailed description of what open source is really about read the Wiki

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For a free consultation on open source in Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield or accross the UK call 07878 972159 or email us here.