Two young businessmen attended the recent seminar we held dealing with the recession. They run a business I wasn’t previously familiar with and so yesterday I met Chris Hall from Credativ in Rugby who supply IT packages running on open source software. Chris explained to me the rationale behind this approach. As someone who has grown up in recent years with Microsoft products, the notion that there is a software package with the source code open to all is pretty revolutionary. I was struck by the huge marketing opportunities and also be potential cost-saving to government institutions who are massive purchasers of software. I hope that their business will do well.
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Open Source Software
Two young businessmen attended the recent seminar we held dealing with the recession. They run a business I wasn’t previously familiar with and so yesterday I met Chris Hall from Credativ in Rugby who supply IT packages running on open source software. Chris explained to me the rationale behind this approach. As someone who has grown up in recent years with Microsoft products, the notion that there is a software package with the source code open to all is pretty revolutionary. I was struck by the huge marketing opportunities and also be potential cost-saving to government institutions who are massive purchasers of software. I hope that their business will do well.
