Technology - Open Source

"Open Source" qualifies any technology whose source code is free for all to examine. The philosophical assumption is that software, like scientific knowledge, must be common property.

Due to this openness, Open Source packages have the following advantages:

• their code quality is excellent, and notably their bug rate is lower,
• they benefit from contributions from a large community of enthusiasts for coding, documenting, testing, ...
• they offer excellent support through community mailing lists.

The obvious conterpart is that Open Source projects have no marketing money to spend, so they propagate through the IT community.

Here at Auderghem Analytica we encourage all our staff to participate actively to the Open Source community, by contributing code, testing new releases and actively answer questions on mailing lists.

We strongly believe that an increasing part of the software development environment technology is becoming "commoditized" (Nicholas Carr's "IT doesn't matter" hypothesis). As a consequence, IT service management such as those we propose will tend to contain 0% licensing costs and 100% implementation costs.