At RockbugDesign, we're big fans of the open source movement. Open source provides several advantages over proprietary solutions.
With open source software...
- You don't pay yearly license fees or pay to upgrade when a new version comes out
- You can look at the source to see what the software is really doing
- You can modify it to meet your needs
- Bugs are often fixed more quickly and regularly than with commercial software
- You support open standards which allows an easier migration path if you take your data elsewhere eventually
Here's a list of some of the open source software we use at RockbugDesign
- Drupal - a content management system
- WordPress - a blog/content management system
- MySQL - a database server/database management system
- RubyOnRails - a web-application framework
- OpenBiblio - a library database system
- Joomla/Mambo - content management systems