Open source change the entire business strategy of software and commercial software, currently open source have more than 30% of enterprise business share and almost 50% of web business share.
Why open source is so popular and does open source really free of cost. these question are keep coming to us on regular basis, we would like to point the below some comprehensive detail of what is open source means to you and how much it will cost.
First of all open source is just a format of licensing of software with code for further enhancement and modification by users or business. it means that any software that come with a licensing of open source are not free nor the open soruce licensing assure you that the software is free. in fact the entire open source software are free for community and general uses and enterprises business have to sellout some cost for the same. for expample there is several CRM solutions , ERP solutions and email solutions are there, these solutions are of 3 format where communtiy edition is free of cost for use, however enterprises edition is paid one and you have to pay additional amount for the maintenance and services.
Moreever open source is loved by developers and business all together and this is testimonial of high quality software keep coming in market without much of the cost. by usign the software solutions you can save huge money and amount in the process.
Open source software is popular on almost all segment , however here we are puting some most used open source software type and top 10 contentders of that category for your reference. this way you can download free software and test it before enterprise wise deployment,
Country like India now sign the agreement of open source software community agreement and include open source software as government software for the application to run government business and public services.
Top 20 application most popular in the open source community of software are
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