ossOpen Source plays an important role in both the consumer software and enterprise product spaces. Open Source is a cost-effective alternative for commercial products. Proprietary software proves to be expensive since customers have to pay for upgrades regularly. This magnifies the licensing costs in the long run. The maturity of open source software has increased over the decade. Open source operating systems, such as Linux, has gained acceptance in the enterprise. Smart phones run the Android open source mobile operating system. Open source has become extremely pervasive. From phones to routers and enterprise software to consumer devices - the open source software is almost everywhere.CIOL:
How do you see the growth of open source in recent times and how THBS is embracing it?KTS: Today, most of the open source software has matured beyond the "Garage Project" level. The open space software now boasts of full-fledged, well-supported and complete products especially in the enterprise arena. There are organizations with full-time employees working on open source products. Their business model is to offer commercial enterprise-class support with no license costs. Being a player in the software services space; Torry Harris considers the open source software as a key enabler to cost-effective software solutions. We have strategic partnerships with several open source product companies.We monetize open source software by offering additional professional services. For example, we provide end-to-end solution delivery using open source software, which includes solution architecture/design and cost-effective offshore application development. We have successfully delivered several projects in the past, which were based on open source products; ranging from enterprise portal to middleware systems.
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