Open Source

Why we use Open Source

Open Source software is software that is developed in a collaborative environment by expert programmers and companies from around the world who donate and support open source code. The instructions that make up the software (source code) are freely available for anyone to use and modify as they wish.

Open source software virtually eliminates license costs and vendor lock-in. Using open source, we can create robust, bug-free, efficient code in less time to exact customer specifications.

Open source software, in the hands of experience developers,  reduces project costs and  produces quick maintainable results and expands support options. With open source nothing is hidden, and everything is revealed. The Avantia-customer trusted partnership is strengthened.

The Benefits of Open Source Software

• Enhancements - you don't have to upgrade if you don't want to. You have the source to support yourself.
• Debugging - With source available you can use a debugger to navigate as your own code interacts with that of the product.
• Testing - with access to the source code, people using a wide variety of platforms, operating systems, and compiler combinations can compile, link, and test your code for portability.
• Documentation - people outside of the core development group are more likely to contribute additional user documentation.
• Usability Issues - there is no adversarial relationship between vendor and client.
• Third-party Tools - by having access to the source code, developers are better able to provide additional tools and add-on products that can enhance the code and functionality.
• Evaluations - no hassle evaluation. No time limit pressures.
• Benchmarking - Benchmarking is an important activity in evaluating if a product is right for you.
• Security - Open source means what you see is what you get. You can inspect the code line by line.
• Licensing - there are no licensing fees! Neither development nor runtime.
• Platform - the ability to provide a standard, stable, consistent interface to a wide variety of applications, on a broad set of platforms and enable their inter-operability