Open Source Integration

Do you require a flexible and customizable software product to serve your needs in the rapidly changing world of business? Our experts excel in integrating custom open source solutions for just about any business type.

Now, what is Open Source software?

Open Source software, abbreviated as OSS, is a name given to the computer software that allows the users to utilize, amend, and redistribute the software in modified or unmodified form. Open Source gives you the benefit of design, development, and distribution for free. However, integration of Open Source software demands thorough knowledge of the Open Source software market. It also requires extensive experience in the software development industry.

DevNull Technologies' Open Source software integration services allow you to enjoy the complete advantage of the collaborative software development that fuels open-source software into the most stable, flexible, and cost-effective alternative to commercial products. We aim at assisting companies to enjoy maximum return on their software investment, thus enabling them to reduce costs, accelerate development processes, and upgrade performance.

DevNull's Open Source Services

We offer our exclusive Open Source Integration service to companies that require high quality, on-tim,e and affordable open source software deployments. Through various open source applications, DevNull aids to uplift user productivity and streamline business processes across your company.

DevNull offers:

  • Open Source Software integration
  • Maintenance and support
  • Open Source Software integration consulting
  • Migration to Open Source Software

Advantages of Using Open Source Software

Open Source software has significant advantages when compared to commercial products:

Cost

Most of Open Source software available today doesn't entitle you to pay any fee or royalty. From a business standpoint, the purchase cost of software is only a single factor as the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) is actually what matters. Other factors remaining equal, the solution with the lowest TCO is generally what is most desirable and recommended.

 

Statements favoring low TCO for open source software are:

  • Probably no purchase price
  • Potentially no requirement to account for copies in use, bringing down administrative overhead.
  • Claimed less requirement for regular upgrades (offering lower/zero upgrade fees, reduced management costs)
  • Claimed extensive uptimes and reduced requirement for costly systems administrators
  • Invulnerable to viruses, in turn removing the requirement for virus checking, downtime, and data loss.
  • Less vulnerable to security breaches and hack attempts lowering systems administration load.

 

Auditability

Auditability is considered to be one of the many benefits of Open Source software. Closed-source software compels it's users to have faith in the trader while claims are made for qualities like adherencing to standards, security, flexibility, freedom from backdoors in the face of prospective changes. Those claims simply remain in case the source code is unavailable. The publication of the source code assures users of the software that there is some basis for those claims.

Whether this adopts the form of a cursory and informal inspection or more stringent auditing, it's clear that third party inspection is not possible without access to the source. Now, the industry does not assert on third party inspection, but it is possible that as open source patterns become more popular, expectations of audits will increase.


Flexibility and Freedom

Open Source software offers further flexibility via freedom.

Freedom from a single developer
Software developers may go out of business or they may randomly decide to discontinue the development of a particular product. How would your business handle things if it depended on such a product? Open-source software solves this problem. It gives you not only the right to use the software you already possess, but the capacity to continue to use it according to your changing needs.

Freedom to modify your software
WIth Open Source software, you're not confined to what a particular company believes you require. Proprietary software vendors cater to several companies, especially their own. Open-source software can be adjusted to the way you do business. It is generally within the resources of all but smaller organizations to improve Open Source software to fit their own requirements.