Open Source Benefits

Created by the Open Source community: The Open Source development community is a vast resource that enables better software to be developed faster. Because it’s Open Source, the IBIS BI platform is able to include and build on the work of other teams in the community and, likewise contribute back to other projects.

Open Source is a better, safer choice: Consider this analogy: In years past, companies like AT&T had a stranglehold on the U.S. telecommunications market. Even after deregulation, chances were high that you had home service from AT&T, or MCI, or someone reselling their service. Today, AT&T doesn’t even market its services to residential customers – it’s been completely outmoded by newer business models that benefit consumers more. The same situation applies in software. For example, when application servers became popular it was IBM and BEA who sparred for the lead. Today, an Open Source company – JBoss - dominates that market. The same is true in many other categories of software. For example, a full 70% of web servers now run on Apache – an Open Source platform. And the same effect is spreading to many other software categories as Open Source continues to take the lead. It’s much safer to avoid the risk of investing in a vendor whose business model is rapidly becoming obsolete. Instead, take advantage of the opportunities Open Source provides.