Is it possible to run my business with Open Source Software?

Each time that an SME makes me question, "I can solve my needs software using open source software?" My answer is a simple "Yes We Can!"

Today there are open source alternatives for almost all known commercial software on the market. Are these open source software can match the performance of commercial software? Well, in most cases they do and even outperform commercial alternatives in performance.

In the last 5 years the business costs skyrocketed and the financial crisis impact on the world's major economies. On the other hand we have seen many open source applications gradually reaching a maturity that has convinced software experts, "Yes, open source software can be used in a company" Almost all large companies or organizations out there today days using open source software in some way, in your IT portfolio.

In fact, more and more companies, especially in the SME sector, use and operate a successful implementation of Free Software. Your IT infrastructure has obviously seen an increase in the use of open source. Free operating systems, especially Linux as clear, CentOS, Ubuntu and Red Hat have become the main market alternatives.

Databases open source MySQL, PostgreSQL, Ingres, etc. are surpassing market share to commercial alternatives such as Microsoft SQL and Oracle. Programming languages ​​like Java open source, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc. are de facto standards for Web applications and Web sites on the Internet.

Even the business of enterprise-class solutions is progressively dominated by the open source software. For example, Open Source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) SugarCRM and vtiger and poses a serious challenge to the CRM brand and are widely accepted. Large corporations use vtiger CRM in your business.

As for the open source email and collaboration solutions such as Zimbra Collaboration Server Microsoft have given several sleepless nights. Zimbra direct challenge to Microsoft Exchange and is the best alternative e-mail and collaboration system that integrates easily with Web 2.0 systems.

The records managers and content of open source Wordpress, Alfresco, Drupal, Typo3, Joomla not only names have become accepted if the majority of the websites in the world use some of these systems. Moreover, the Business Intelligence software as open source Pentaho is fast catching proprietary alternatives.

The most important among the successful implementations of open source is finding a reputable supplier and help attend to the implementation, customization and configuration of the system.

In re-devise solutions provide consulting, systems development and implementation of open source and especially vtigerCRM. If you want to know more about this open source CRM please do not hesitate to try the demo in Spanish vtigerCRM