2. Introduction
Open-source software provides a community approach to software development; where anyone can copy, modify, distribute and
develop through them. This is contrary to the patent and organised market where all the codes and themes are under
intellectual property.
For you to have a better understanding Pixelcrayons has come up with stating few benefits of Open Source Softwares.
1. Costs are less. The software acquisition cost for OSS are relatively low, if not free, thanks to them for doing excessive
branding and marketing for them.
2. Avoid vendor lock-in. Firms do not love to be strangled by their vendors. here you get a vendor who takes care of your needs
and fetches solution to them on timely basis. This also allows people to have freedom and a choice of their own.
3. Flexibility of deployment. Without licensing process, companies can respond swiftly to changing market dynamics and meet
development and scalability needs at no cost.
3. Benefits of OSS
4. Adaptable to needs. Unlike the fixed specifications of the branded softwares, the OSS allows you to rope in your features into
the software through customisation. The option of development of ‘Hybrid app’ and ‘Native app’ with PixcelCrayons make
this all the more easy for firms to choose between the two rather sticking to one option.
5. No threat of Obsolescence. Since, this is a community based service you always have minds that keep it revitalising. What
you can do is, you can choose a basic solution and then you can develop its better versions and use it.
6. Perception. Well, every coin has two faces. On one side where few corporates are in favor of these softwares other are quite
reluctant to use it. The ides is vet your needs comprehensively and then choose what to do what not to do.
7. Range of Options. This platform has enormous girth in terms of availability of options are required. Being a community based
service there are pool of ideas that keep on pouring in from all quarters to develop the given product into its better form.
4. Conclusion
Quality. Being a community driven, it leads to more reliable and secure code. testing and bug removal happens quickly as the
users are themselves developers. There is a scope of continuous improvement in the coding because experts and quality
norms are fed by peers across the panel. This is totally customizable, you can also upgrade it yourself, if you don't linke a
given feature.
Conclusion
The success of the OSS platform is not new. The idea is, if you are sure what you leverage from a given software and
you know how it can be customized to serve you better, the Open Source is a heaven for you. But, if you are more
inclined to you a branded software then there is no stopping but it will pinch your pocket and will be specific in it
use.
