SMEs and open source - a perfect marriage?
Small businesses can benefit from switching to open source, says Danny Bradbury - just be careful which applications you choose to move.
Vendors of proprietary software such as Microsoft are busy courting small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) customers with their products. Windows Small Business Server, for example, is designed to chunter happily away in a corner, managing the everyday computing tasks for a smaller company. But open source software companies are also targeting SMEs, offering lower cost, increased flexibility and security as key benefits. Which approach should SMEs take?
The ability to tinker with the source code in an open source application means companies can adapt it to suit their own ends and draw on input from a wide community of developers to help them.
Nik Ehmann, ISP team leader at Newtel Solutions, a Channel Islands telephone service provider with 35 employees, says: "The availability of programming languages such as Perl and PHP which are accompanied by vast libraries of contributed code has enabled us to create both ad hoc and full blown solutions in support of our infrastructure."
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