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Yesterday one of our customer, Del-Jen was participating on a Panel about Demystifying Open Source.

Paul, Del-jen's CTO, demonstrated very well how his use of Open Source technology saved them a lot of money in licensing cost and consulting cost.

What was surprising to me is the long term cost.
Over a period of 4 years the cost of open source software did go down. The more they use it the less it costs.
On the other end the cost of commercial software increased constantly during the same period.
The cost includes licensing and consulting.

We started working with Del-Jen 4 years ago with a MySQL training and experimentation. After a year they started implementating Open Source Fusion Enterprise in a mission critical middleware.
This custom middleware interconnect and process time-sheets, forms, documents and payroll information to its 4000 employes all over the world.

The fact that total cost of ownership (TCO) of open source software is lower then commercial software is good.
But that this cost goes down over time is very good news.

Del-Jen is a Fluor company.

A new Beta of Open Source Fusion is live at:
www.opensourcefusion.com

The beta access code for this release is: osfbeta

This new beta includes 3 new applications a wiki software (dokuwiki) a project management software (netoffice) and a CRM software (Vtiger).

Net Office screen shot:

Give us your feedback, tel us what you think.

Jeff Kaplan, Software as a service specialist, mentioned SQLFusion in a blog post trying to dispell some Saas myths.

I definitely recommend you to have a look at his post and blog: ( Click here )

To add one point to Jeff's post, I would like to mention that Open Source Fusion (SQLFusion on-demand platform) not only provides open source software as a service, but additionally it allows a company to get customized/integrated open source software if needed. That software can either be developed by the company technical team using Open Source Fusion development tools or it can be developed by SQLFusion open source specialists for this company.

In other words, Open Source Fusion offers the best of what Saas can offer, giving you the choice between the one size fits all option (picking and using one of the many existing open source software for CRM, ERP, CMS, etc.) or a customized/integrated solution that matches the specificities of a business, building upon open source software.

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Tag: Innovation | Software | Open Source | Open Source Fusion | SQLFusion | Saas

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