Carl Weinschenk, widely known open source analyst has provided multiple cost factors for open source software vis-a-vis proprietary software and how the total cost of ownership for adopting open source software is much lower than the proprietary software.
The total cost of ownership is looked from the wholistic perspective of total software acquisition, adoption and maintenance cycle.
For more details on the article, visit URL http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=49644&sr=1
Aghreni Technologies is an offshore provider of open source software, solutions, products and services to clients world-wide. It has an excellent understanding of open source technologies and solutions in various domains.
Aghreni is also specialized in remote infrastructure management and SAS 70, IT audits and security services.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Why Open Source is good for Academic Institutions?
Open Source with its promise of distributing source code and allowing anyone to modify it or derive other software from it, makes it an excellent choice for learning computer science, technology and engineering of software.
Academic institutions are given the responsibility of building strong expertise in all aspects of software engineering, be it operating systems, device drivers, database systems, application architecting and engineering, front end graphical user interface (GUI), complex algorithms, working internals of business applications or tools. Learning proprietary tools or technologies that doesn’t provide the software code and the freedom to modify or derive other software from it, limits the learning potential of academicians and students to fully understand the software, thereby seriously curtailing the creativity of the great minds and the learning process.
If one has to become an automobile engineer dreaming of building better automobiles, he/she has to learn the core engineering principles, how the basic building blocks of automobile work and how to design an automobile with building blocks. Similarly a software engineer has to understand in school, the core software engineering principles, how the basic building blocks of software applications work, i.e., operating system internals, database internals, applications server internals, libraries internals, IDE tools internals, business application internals and how the applications are architected and implemented. Unless one has access to the source code of these building blocks and architecture and implementation of these, learning is going to be limited and in-effective. Hence the best way is understanding of the software source code, modifying it or deriving from it for effective learning in the school.
Open source adaptability provides this great opportunity as it harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of implementation. Also it provides lower cost of adoption and higher flexibility of learning for academicians and students.
It is the best time for academic institutes, faculty and students to come together to adopt open source technologies like Linux Operating System, MySQL & Postgress databases, Perl, PHP, Python, Java and Ruby programming languages, Open Standards for application architecture and engineering, Open Source tools and Open Source Business applications in all domains.
Academic institutions are given the responsibility of building strong expertise in all aspects of software engineering, be it operating systems, device drivers, database systems, application architecting and engineering, front end graphical user interface (GUI), complex algorithms, working internals of business applications or tools. Learning proprietary tools or technologies that doesn’t provide the software code and the freedom to modify or derive other software from it, limits the learning potential of academicians and students to fully understand the software, thereby seriously curtailing the creativity of the great minds and the learning process.
If one has to become an automobile engineer dreaming of building better automobiles, he/she has to learn the core engineering principles, how the basic building blocks of automobile work and how to design an automobile with building blocks. Similarly a software engineer has to understand in school, the core software engineering principles, how the basic building blocks of software applications work, i.e., operating system internals, database internals, applications server internals, libraries internals, IDE tools internals, business application internals and how the applications are architected and implemented. Unless one has access to the source code of these building blocks and architecture and implementation of these, learning is going to be limited and in-effective. Hence the best way is understanding of the software source code, modifying it or deriving from it for effective learning in the school.
Open source adaptability provides this great opportunity as it harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of implementation. Also it provides lower cost of adoption and higher flexibility of learning for academicians and students.
It is the best time for academic institutes, faculty and students to come together to adopt open source technologies like Linux Operating System, MySQL & Postgress databases, Perl, PHP, Python, Java and Ruby programming languages, Open Standards for application architecture and engineering, Open Source tools and Open Source Business applications in all domains.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Why Open Source will be hot now?
With the deepening of the credit crisis, melt down in the financial industry, the IT budgets in the big companies is under squeeze.
Companies are looking at optimising their IT budgets and seriously looking at Return on their investments. The commercial software license costs; be in hardware, operating system, infrastructure, database, commercial applications and consulting & support, is being reviewed and seriously considered for optimising and cost cutting.
Open source software and solutions have a great opportunity to survive and benefit in this economy as they provide better returns for the companies that are looking to save huge licensing costs and greater availability of solutions and software that can be easily adopted.
Open source software and solutions have matured over years and a bigger community to support them. There are several solutions from multiple vendors for business problems and substantially less expensive compared to commercial software from the proprietary software companies.
According to statistics, open source solutions did really well during the last economic downturn in the year 2000 and 2001.
Aghreni technologies started at Banglore, India realising the potential of open-source technologies and solutions and its impact on society and enterprises, is focussing on providing open source technology services and solutions.
Aghreni's business solutions practices provides consulting and implementation services major open source ERP, BI, Content Management and Email Marketing applications.
Aghreni provides product incubation and services on open source technologies like Java, perl and php. It has an interesting mix of services on open source technologies and trying to promote them in a big way. It has also embarked in creating the talent pool locally through their education services targetted at college students who would like to build their career on open source technologies early in their college.
For more information on the company, you can visit their website http://www.aghreni.com or drop an email at info@aghreni.com
Companies are looking at optimising their IT budgets and seriously looking at Return on their investments. The commercial software license costs; be in hardware, operating system, infrastructure, database, commercial applications and consulting & support, is being reviewed and seriously considered for optimising and cost cutting.
Open source software and solutions have a great opportunity to survive and benefit in this economy as they provide better returns for the companies that are looking to save huge licensing costs and greater availability of solutions and software that can be easily adopted.
Open source software and solutions have matured over years and a bigger community to support them. There are several solutions from multiple vendors for business problems and substantially less expensive compared to commercial software from the proprietary software companies.
According to statistics, open source solutions did really well during the last economic downturn in the year 2000 and 2001.
Aghreni technologies started at Banglore, India realising the potential of open-source technologies and solutions and its impact on society and enterprises, is focussing on providing open source technology services and solutions.
Aghreni's business solutions practices provides consulting and implementation services major open source ERP, BI, Content Management and Email Marketing applications.
Aghreni provides product incubation and services on open source technologies like Java, perl and php. It has an interesting mix of services on open source technologies and trying to promote them in a big way. It has also embarked in creating the talent pool locally through their education services targetted at college students who would like to build their career on open source technologies early in their college.
For more information on the company, you can visit their website http://www.aghreni.com or drop an email at info@aghreni.com
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Aghreni Technologies wishes open source community on Software Freedom Day 2008
Today, world over, programmers who are very passionate about building free and open source software are celebrating the Software Freedom Day (SFD). Software Freedom Day is an annual worldwide celebration of free and open source software to educate and promote public, academic, business and government institutions in adopting open source software for greater benefits of all.
This year, SFD is being held on Saturday, 20 September 2008. Technology leaders like Sun, Google, Canonical, Zenoss, Linode, BitePR, DKUUG, Mindtouch along with volunteers comprised of over 600 teams in 100 countries are supporting this global event to help raise awareness of the virtues of free software and encourage its use.
For more information visit http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/
Aghreni technologies started at Banglore, India realising the potential of open-source technologies and solutions and its impact on society and enterprises, is focussing on providing open source technology services and solutions.
Aghreni's business solutions practices provides consulting and implementation services major open source ERP, BI, Content Management and Email Marketing applications.
Aghreni provides product incubation and services on open source technologies like Java, perl and php. It has an interesting mix of services on open source technologies and trying to promote them in a big way. It has also embarked in creating the talent pool locally through their education services targetted at college students who would like to build their career on open source technologies early in their college.
For more information on the company, you can visit their website http://www.aghreni.com or drop an email at info@aghreni.com
This year, SFD is being held on Saturday, 20 September 2008. Technology leaders like Sun, Google, Canonical, Zenoss, Linode, BitePR, DKUUG, Mindtouch along with volunteers comprised of over 600 teams in 100 countries are supporting this global event to help raise awareness of the virtues of free software and encourage its use.
For more information visit http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/
Aghreni technologies started at Banglore, India realising the potential of open-source technologies and solutions and its impact on society and enterprises, is focussing on providing open source technology services and solutions.
Aghreni's business solutions practices provides consulting and implementation services major open source ERP, BI, Content Management and Email Marketing applications.
Aghreni provides product incubation and services on open source technologies like Java, perl and php. It has an interesting mix of services on open source technologies and trying to promote them in a big way. It has also embarked in creating the talent pool locally through their education services targetted at college students who would like to build their career on open source technologies early in their college.
For more information on the company, you can visit their website http://www.aghreni.com or drop an email at info@aghreni.com
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Sun plans open source push
Sun has thrown its weight behind this month's Software freedome day 2008 and called the firms and consumers alike to embrace open source.
Sun is calling on the open source community and its own staff to cooperate in a global education programme designed to raise awareness of the technologies.
Sun will host over 100 events as part of the initiative, and its staff in 60 of its worldwide office had aready committed their time and support.
The company also plans to equip universities and other educational establishments with free and open source technologies to aid learning.
For more details.
http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/index.jsp
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2226007/sun-plans-software-freedom-day
Aghreni provides product incubation and services on open source technologies like Java, perl and php. It has an interesting mix of services on open source technologies and trying to promote them in a big way. It has also embarked in creating the talent pool locally through their education services targetted at college students who would like to build their career on open source technologies early in their college.
Aghreni's business solutions practices provides consulting and implementation services major open source ERP, BI, Content Management and Email Marketing applications.
For more information on the company, you can visit their website http://www.aghreni.com/ or drop an email at info@aghreni.com
Sun is calling on the open source community and its own staff to cooperate in a global education programme designed to raise awareness of the technologies.
Sun will host over 100 events as part of the initiative, and its staff in 60 of its worldwide office had aready committed their time and support.
The company also plans to equip universities and other educational establishments with free and open source technologies to aid learning.
For more details.
http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/index.jsp
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2226007/sun-plans-software-freedom-day
Aghreni provides product incubation and services on open source technologies like Java, perl and php. It has an interesting mix of services on open source technologies and trying to promote them in a big way. It has also embarked in creating the talent pool locally through their education services targetted at college students who would like to build their career on open source technologies early in their college.
Aghreni's business solutions practices provides consulting and implementation services major open source ERP, BI, Content Management and Email Marketing applications.
For more information on the company, you can visit their website http://www.aghreni.com/ or drop an email at info@aghreni.com
Friday, September 12, 2008
Open source BI and ERP firms partner to minimise complexity
Two open source companies have partnered to provide an integrated BI and ERP offering that should minimize the complexity that an open source deployment typically renders.
Ease of deployment is the goal for organizations looking to deploy a BI and ERP component in their IT infrastructure because "in general, [open source] is great technology but sometimes it's a little bit too techie,"
Openbravo S.L., a Pamplona, Spain-based vendor of open source ERP and point-of-sale systems and Orlando, Florida-based Pentaho Corp. offers open source BI systems have partnered to provide seamless deployment of both the platforms.
The partnereship will provide Technologies from Openbravo and Pentaho for companies to solve business problems with simplicity and hide of complexity. Hence it is possible to focus on business problems than technology configuration problems.
Aghreni technologies started at Banglore, India realising the potential of open-source technologies and solutions and its impact on society and enterprises, is focussing on providing open source technology services and solutions.
Aghreni's business solutions practices provides consulting and implementation services major open source ERP, BI, Content Management and Email Marketing applications.
Aghreni provides product incubation and services on open source technologies like Java, perl and php. It has an interesting mix of services on open source technologies and trying to promote them in a big way. It has also embarked in creating the talent pool locally through their education services targetted at college students who would like to build their career on open source technologies early in their college.
For more information on the company, you can visit their website http://www.aghreni.com or drop an email at info@aghreni.com
Open Source promotion and adoption in Asian countries gathers momentum
The commission on Informatics and Communications Technology (CICT) plans to create a national body to promote the adoption of open source technologies.
The Philippines is scheduled to host in October a regional open source conference which will gather representations from 21 countries to sign an agreement. The said agreement will push for cooperation among these countries in the area of open source. This is expected to benefit most of the emerging markets in Asia.
The Philippines is scheduled to host in October a regional open source conference which will gather representations from 21 countries to sign an agreement. The said agreement will push for cooperation among these countries in the area of open source. This is expected to benefit most of the emerging markets in Asia.
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