Starting a business with Open Source Software
Aaron Toponce
introPLAY LLC
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What is the #1 focus for a new business?
How can a business obtain that revenue?
- Not my focus.
- Ease the financial burden.
Meet introPLAY
- What is introPLAY?
- Overview
- Demo
- Small budget
- Licensing
- Python vs .NET
- Linux vs. Windows
- Vim/Emacs vs. Visual Studio
- Community vs Vendor Lock-in
Software used
- Ubuntu & Debian GNU/Linux
- Vim & Emacs
- OpenVZ
- Subversion & Trac
- Python, Django & Dojo
Software used (cont.)
- Firefox & Konqueror
- SSH and OpenVPN
- Apache & PostgreSQL
- Postfix & Dovecot
- CUPS
Other tools
- Samba
- Jabber & IRC
- OpenOffic.org
- Gimp
- GnuPG
- Thunderbird or Evolution
- Many more
Contributions
- Patches
- Bugs
- Derivatives
Why Open Source for your business
- Save money
- TCO
- Large community
- No Vendor Lock-in
- No restricive licenses