From expensive commercial software to the open-source time has come to?

PC has been on the development of the theme of freedom of choice, but ironically, the software companies are always trying provisions What you can do what can not be done: You have to register for a software rather than buy it directly in the designated number on the computer you can only run once, you can not modify the source code.
In the late 1990s The end, there has been open-source software movement, to protest. Open-source movement can be traced back to the root causes of the 1960s hacker culture, a number of programmers to improve literacy and the development of open-source software, and any interested in this and share the fruits of their labour.

Make a choice
Generally speaking, open-source software is always free of charge, of course, does not exclude also need to pay for and provide technical support. In the area of product development, this is a revolutionary concept, because it is based on cooperation rather than competition. There is no doubt that open source was the shadow of a socialist utopia.
You or your company, I consider open-source? Bernard Golden been taken. He is Addison-Wesley Publishing Company has just published a new book entitled "Open Source help you succeed" (Succeeding With Open Source) the author. The intention of this book from the expensive commercial software to the open-source software enterprises, the entry can be a guiding role.
Golden or Navica CEO of the company, Navica Kaluosi a California St. (San Carlos), an IT company, to the open source platform for enterprises to provide information to help the transition.
Now there are nearly 100,000 open-source products, including the relatively well-known in the operating system there can replace Microsoft's Windows for Linux in the browser have can replace Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Firefox (Firefox), and office software can be replaced by Microsoft Office OpenOffice.
It is very possible to have discovered this trend which, in addition to the existing commercial software from the high cost, another advantage of open-source software can provide greater security. Year after year, hackers dialysis Microsoft's security features, the software giant in the field of security flaw is Cheruniumao.

Understand disadvantage
Of course, open source is not perfect, Golden pointed out that the most serious flaw is the ease of use. He said: " 'fool-use (fit and finish)', the open-source software than Microsoft-provided by the wizard like feature allows people to a new product easier to get started."
Another disadvantage is that the software is not readily available, as Apple's Macintosh computer. While many software has been in existence for many years, but if your needs are tailor-made, or to resort to other means of a.
If you demand less specialization, and the most simple way to open-source software is downloaded Firefox. The free, rapid and responsive browser directly from the first graphical browser Mosaic derived from, and increasingly the people.
Published in November 2004 after six months, it is estimated that the number of Firefox have been downloaded as many as 5 million, which has made Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser market share fell, I used to think it is to monopolize the browser market, as a result, representing only to the tip of the iceberg.

Technical challenges
Firefox has a sister software, which is open source e-mail software, Thunderbird (Thunderbird), the course, Thunderbird is a free software. Apart from being used e-mail, Thunderbird can also handle Usenet news groups. Apart from these two, there is a simple Web page production, Nvu.
OpenOffice is a relatively large software, but still very easy to use, and it includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, a graphics software and a slide show authoring software. Either version of Windows, or Mac or Linux versions, are in English and other languages.
Although Linux has many loyal fans, but still there are many technical challenges. While it was those people in the use of Linux, once you install it and began to learn, easy to use, but compared with Windows, it even more difficult to install, learn when it harder. Linux has been popular to know to what extent, look at Wal-Mart can buy at any time on the amount of Linux-based computer will be able to understand Bajiuban.
Companies such as Red Hat Linux do for a user-friendly interface, and adds some features, but also added some support, but prices are close to a number of commercial software.
At present commercial software for huge pay registration fees of enterprises will benefit from the largest open source. If you are working to achieve a number of key business functions and to adopt open-source software, tried to adopt the advice of external experts will be of great help.
Golden in Navica said: "We usually always on the high rate of return interested in the opportunity, so that our efforts will not have been in vain. In to find opportunities, it has listed a manual or automatic work process needs to be done Each modification: implementation, testing, the transition needs to be done are. "iRadeon.com is another IT company, plans to transition to the open-source-oriented enterprises. Roseville, California company is to help companies deploy and manage open-source software, so that it widely disseminated on the Web.