In the earlier days when website software technology was still in the nascent stage and proprietary software expensive the coming of open source software was a welcome change. People formed open -source communities and created software eco-system where innovation, creativity and usefulness to society was more valued than having any commercial aspect to the software product. It was of great help to budding developers and technology-enthusiast, who wanted to do something new in software field but could not afford the resources or proprietary software. Even start-ups companies embraced this initiative, as it helped them to go online and make commercial software. This greatly reduced their software expense and thereby reducing the overall cost of the product.
In the beginning the open source software was limited in its usage and mainly served the purpose for promising developers and growing start-ups but as the time went by more and more patrons joined the race. Large corporate organizations were still skeptical about the use of open source technology as their primary source of software platform and relied more on proprietary technology. The reason most of them cited were lack of scalability, security and in some cases reliability. Some software giant’s even questioned the veracity of the open-source platform. Biggies like Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple never acknowledge the open source as the primary player in the software field. But with the open source success stories now even the large organization is also seeing the tons of benefits it is offering. Though open-source software is not going to wipe out completely the proprietary software ecosystems but it has certainly made software giants to take notice of them before pricing their products.
Today it is easy for start-ups to go online by making their websites or e-commerce stores quickly and affordably. Below are the lists of top open-source technologies: