Our knowledge base will attempt to answer as many as possible of your questions related to the use of IT in your business. Although most of the issues we will address are related to open source, we realise that many companies are still deeply committed to using proprietary systems and software. Therefore, we will also give such companies the information which will help make the transition to open source systems as smooth as possible.

The benefits of the open source approach are increasingly being recognised in the ICT sector both here in New Zealand and overseas. These benefits include:

• lower barriers to investment: open source software has enabled many organisations to invest in high-end business tools that would previously have been beyond reach
• controlling your IT future: open source software can be tailored to your needs: you aren't dependent on a single-vendor's idea of what its customers' needs are
• security and reliability: because open source software can be scrutinised by anyone, the development community behind well-supported open source projects is typically quick to respond to security issues and other bugs; your own organisation or your technology supplier can also review the code against your internal policies and standards.
• innovation: organisations are able to build on established open source products to create innovative solutions that significantly improve outcomes from service delivery across sectors to competitive advantage for individual businesses.

For reasons like these, many organisations are no longer asking "Is open source ready for my business?" but rather "Is my business ready for open source?".

For some organisations however, the diversity of open source offerings available today, can be an obstacle to adoption. How do you choose one from dozens of freely available web content management systems? How do you assess the strength of the development community behind the project? How can you best integrate the product into your existing IT environment? How do you feed your organisation's innovations back into an open source project to minimise the long-term maintenance cost to you?

The knowledge and experience of a technology partner like Logic Expertise is invaluable in selecting, implementing and supporting the right open source software for your business needs. Contact us today to discuss your open source and technology integration needs.