Open Source

ITBrain is a promoter and an active member of the open source community. We have first hand experience in how the open tools combined with agile development methods can help our clients to improve the effectiveness of the IT organization.

In the current restricted budgets environment, open software is receiving more attention than ever. The success of many open software projects is motivating the IT leaders to move further than the development tools and to consider how their companies can make profitable their budgets using open software for developing and testing on the production environments.

ITBrain recognizes that there is not a unique approach that suits all the IT organizations. The personnel skills, economic considerations, system confiability, acquisitions process, legal requirements and the supported operations have to be considered carefully and evaluated before going with open software.

ITBrain helps the IT organizations to:

• Evaluate the economic benefits of open software.
• Define attributes for the candidate applications.
• Evaluate organization impacts, including the acquisition process, the personnel skills, training, support to the operations and intellectual property issues.
• Define a route to move from a commercial software environment to an open software environment.
• Determine if and where open software is appropriate in the life cycle. Some applications that may require a complete environment of commercial products, but the open software could be an option during the development and test stage.
• Evaluate available options either commercial or open software, including operative systems, databases, application servers, web services, middleware and development tools.