Wednesday, March 24, 2010

IT companies using Open Source as a part of their business strategy

There is one Estonian company that is made on PHP and MYSQL platforms - Edicy. Therefore it is not the best example but still half of the business model is using open source as a part of their business strategy. Edicy was created in order to provide businesses and individuals a service to create professional websites easilly and without any technical knowledge. For example, one can create individual site really fast by using simple tools provided.

Better example of the open source business model is Joomla that uses entirely open source model in their business. Joomla enables to build websites on OS solution and it is free to use for everyone - therefore it has become one of the most popular sites sharing the software for websites.

And then Red Hat that is world's leading open source provider. The company truly believes that open source creates better software. And when everyone collaborates, the best technology wins, they say. Additionally to the above mentioned leading OS provider, Red Hat is also the world's most trusted provider of Linux.

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