Open Source Software in the Industry

Corporate uses of OSS

Open source software has its own standing in the corporate world where accounts are made for every cent spend, every new person in becomes a corporation’s asset, and every new piece of equipment bought becomes an investment. Truly, this is one place where efficiency directly amounts to profits. In the 21st century, Industries ranging from Pan Masala makers to cutting edge hardware makers to huge multi-national corporations manufacturing everything we have.
Every industry makes use of computers and software technologies to create and deliver its products more efficiently. Here, reliability, expenses and quality means everything. Multi-million dollar companies therefore, spend truckloads of cash on their computing infra-structure which include custom built office networks, 24X7 working web servers, high end workstations and above all, rock stable and efficient software that powers and connects all this.
Services and support are supposed to be robust, cheap and easy to use. Take any big huge industry for example; it needs the technical backing in the form of servers that store indispensible data. For all these needs, corps. come in touch with other corps. which offer such services. These companies, other than offering tried and tested software, they also offer technical consultancy services and also business management models, for running On-Demand Businesses. IBM, is one big example for such a company. Supporting the technical backbone of companies such as { }, this company makes much of its money through such consultancy and management services.
There are more big names under this sort of a large scale management industry – Oracle, Debian, Red Hat, Novell and many more.
In an attempt to explain this in more interesting and livelier way, we have presented a comical storyline of a corporation by the name Moon Nanosystems trying to extract such a service from Nanosoft and Whoracle, two Proprietary service and support providers. As the story unfolds, you and Moon Nanosystems would learn the edge gained on being with Open Source.

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Advantages

Corporations have choices over here, they can either go for a proprietary software based service or they can even go for an Open Source based support.
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More Choice

The second day involved a brainstorming session on the conditions and suggestions placed by the provider on the enterprise. Most workstations in Moon Nanosystems ran on the Minnows 3003 Professional platform, the rest ran on a custom-made platform which the corp.
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Greater Freedom

Moon Nanosystems execs took another wild step completely against the likes of its staff. Nanosoft officials started installing their new software while assuring the staff that it would better
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Influence of OSS

In modern times, India has accomplished miracles through the power of collaboration. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has the potential to accomplish yet another set of miracles in automating government and industry, and producing affordable education for all.
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OSS in India

OEM is short for Original Equipment Manufacturers. OEM companies make their products in large volumes and generally sell them to bigger companies who add value to it by incorporating it in a bigger product or just improving the overall feel of the product. However, sometimes, the bigger company is called the OEM and the smaller company is just called the ‘provider.
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