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Why use open source?
The term "open source" refers to software that can be freely redistributed, analysed and modified by anyone.
Key characteristics of open source software include:
Lower information technology costs.
Open source eliminates the need to pay for software licenses. Of course, this does not mean that you can eliminate information technology
costs altogether there is still a need for staff and equipment to make it all work.
Flexible software solutions.
The fact that the code is "open" means that software can be modified to respond to needs not addressed by the original developer.
Better security.
Mature open source applications Linux, Apache, SendMail, OpenOffice.org tend to be more secure than their proprietary counterparts.
Collaborative, cooperative values.
Open source is based on a set of collaborative and cooperative values. It assumes that we can create more useful tools by working together than we can by competing.
Who's using open source?
More and more organizations in business and government are turning to open source. Large computer companies like IBM, Sun and Apple
have embraced open source as a part of their software strategy.
Governments have turned to open source both as a way to share software they create and as a way to lower costs, with the City of Munich switching
all 14,000 of its computers to Linux, an open source operating system. And, of course, the large majority of computers used to run the Internet run open
source tools, with 65% of web servers currently running the Apache web server.
