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Quadwave Consulting, Bangalore, India: Quadwave.com

Open Source Solutions for Online Businesses

Online business community is the one which gets the maximum out of open source community; be it portals, vortals, or any small e-commerce sites - open source solutions have always helped small and medium to even large companies or communities to quickly build and strive in the market.

For most of the online businesses and communities the speed of 'go-to-market' is most critical, almost their survival depends on this. This along with working on a shoe-string budget virtually forces them to adapt some open source solution to go faster to market with the ideas.

Many such businesses take/choose wrong open source solution and go through severe losses amounting even to closure of the business itself. Usual problems that many online businesses face today are:

  1. Open source software adapted is no longer "alive"; hence no updates are available.
  2. A critical component of an open source software adapted is proprietary - and the owner is expecting 'heavy' payments for the same.
  3. The resources who suggested and built the solution for this online business are no longer available - hence there goes the support and enhancements.
  4. The technology that the open source software was built is ancient - hence we are not getting anyone.

Quadwave helps such businesses de-risk the business continuity related issues by evaluating the best strategy to adapt the best open source solution in terms of cost of actual deployment/enhancement/support, licensing policies, technology roadmap, maturity of the solution, design and documentation availability and many more factors.

The regular solutions an online business looks for from Open Source software are:
  • Portal Frameworks such as Drupal, Joomla, DotNetNuke(DNN), Liferay
  • Content & document management solutions such as Alfresco
  • Communication tools such as Jabber, Skype integrations
  • Many Web2.0 features from disparate sources....