A blog article I found today via Twitter - interesting theme. So, I wrote this below.
I think switching to Open source today is the matter of creativity and originality. Imagine no limits no codes, well there are actually codes but they are open.
For instance your company has lack of resources, any financial, resources of ideas. You with your team realizing - you need "breakthrough", you need new search engine for new ideas or problem solutions.
Today it is easy - hire someone - only one person or small team of developers, give them a task to build a search engine for your CRM or EMS (Enterprise management system) and go on they have all resources open to work.
I think that is fantastic way to almost anything for your business needs. OK, you could ask or argue We are working in Windows - even that is no problem, there are open source solutions working with Windows and in Windows desktop environments.
I think that is some sort of "Passive" developing, you are not really doing development you use core API of some thing and finish it for your needs, product service or system.
So, with your new development you are able to share, it should be "open source", OK, you can ask a fee for a service using you application or solution but the API needs to be open.
Another big advantage - you can share your new application even in early stage, even if it is unstable, to get more feedback from testing. Today bug reports are very common to any open source system (also if it is not open), because nothing is perfect there should be something to modify or change, otherwise you will stop any development at all.
To summarize, from my side "open source" is more to the market more to the user`s so this is the way how to allow companies to get more market shares instead of hiding the codes, you get more feed back, more people and organizations are using that, so you have more costumers, because they want services from your company, they need to be educated how it works?.
This is the way out of a crisis, this the solution today.
I mentioned "Passive", reason I did it? When you work with open source developers you do not need to take active involvement in the process, feedback you can get back directly from your costumers, because you share your`s owned development. This obstacle spend less resources and time, because you see how it goes in LIVE motion from the market.
Maybe this is the way for your enterprise to have open source staff, interesting meaning "open source" staff. Well I now one company in Latvia who`s offered services is "open source" ideas and solutions. As a matter of fact PASIVE Ltd (SIA) is the name of this company. The funniest thing in it - they are having a company`s service - tray a worker or rent a worker (I hope mentioned right). As they presented to me, with their service you will not need to hire somebody for your direct work you will be able to rent the person from PASIVE company, and now the best you can have a service trial period - you understand I guess.
Well today they can offer to you such working force FOR RENT with TRIAL PERIOD;
- financial manager
- project manager
- assistant manager
- development manager.
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