Advisory and Guidance

Open Interfaces and Vendor Independence

Open Source software is a community production, in the sense that it is developed by a huge number of independent parties. That this multi-party collaborative effort actually works, can appear as something of a miracle. But it has its explanation: for each Open Source project, it is a necessity that others use it and contribute back. A prerequisite for this is that interfacing to it should be easy, i.e. it requires open and well-documented interfaces. This creates an eco-system where the projects that comply thrive, the others are abandoned and disappear.

From a business perspective this is of particular interest, because it makes vendor lock-ins difficult.

Negotiational Leverage and Risk Minimization

One important advantage of Open Source software is that it is free. Since it can simply be downloaded by anyone, there is no financial cost associated with the software itself. When comparing offers, this gives the Open Source-based proposals an up-front advantage in terms of price, which in turn reframes the negociation.

Open Source projects can easily be picked up by any organization with a basic computer science profile and are being maintained by several parties. As a result, they are not vulnerable to one of the parties going out of business.

A Wealth of Possibilities

The difficulty with Open Source resides in making the optimal choices in the wealth of possibilities that it represents. This is where Ange Optimization can assist.

We have been in the Open Source corporate business for decades and have acquired a vast experience in composing the right solution from Open Source components.

What we can provide is advice on how to implement a transition to Open Source, taking executive strategical aspects into account, while ensuring that the solutions remain simple, efficient and robust on the long term.