Licensing Costs

Global software pricing and licensing trends are changing are more companies are shifting their existing models to a customer friendly model. The open source model disallows any form of software licensing. There are absolutely no incremental costs to the manufacturer who is producing software. Why must the customer pay an incremental amount? The open source model solves this problem quite beautifully.

Vendor Lock In

This is one of the biggest reasons why enterprises switch to open source software. This highly increases dependence on proprietary software and cost of switching to other technologies. None of the open source software available in the market (ones we have worked on) lock you in.

Limited Expansion

Expansion is limited because of high cost of licensing and limited capabilities of the proprietary systems. You must calculate cost of expansion during the evaluation process.

High Switching Cost

Enterprises invest heavily on licenses which become barriers to switch. When time comes, these enterprises do not have the required funds to invest into their infrastructure. This means one should avoid high up front costs.

High Upgrading Cost

Cost of upgrading usually becomes more than cost of switching. This does not exist in case of open source software. The idea is to calculate future cost of expansion and management/support during the process of initial evaluation. Open source software gives you enormous upgrading and integration options.

Cost of Downtime

Companies in Pakistan do not quantify losses incurred due to downtime. Monetary effects of downtime should be calculated and minimized. Open source solutions are used globally by large organizations who have been able to measure their losses due to system downtime. So far we have been able to provide our clients with an uptime of 99.999% (5'9s).