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We prefer to use OpenSource software. Not only because it usually lowers the costs greatly, the speed at which development takes place is much higher, it is more secure, and the modular approach enables more flexibility and leaves room for easy upgrading in the future.

You want a few more reasons to use open-source? read this: why OpenSource works

Our prefered choice of Software:

  SilverStripe is an open source content management system (CMS) for creating and managing websites through a simple web interface. It has many advanced features. These features include an MVC framework, XHTML compliance, multiple ways of organising navigation through folksonomy, a flexible data object model, multiple templates per page, a separate "draft site" and "published site through staging content, asset management , image resizing, versioning and rollback, SEF URLs with meta-data. It also deploys content through RSS and full text search, including searching of PDF's and Word documents. SilverStripe is probably the best choice for a professional company website or intranet that can handle thousands of pages.

SilverStripe has recently come under the wing of Google. Google has begun offering resources to develop and support SilverStripe. This means that SilverStripe will be very accessable and search engine friendly. For us, this is a big advance in the world of CMS.

 

Wordpress is a simple but well-featured CMS and Blogging platform. The ease of use and the many (freely) available plugins make it an ideal choice for a personal website, blog or a simple company sit

 

 

Magento is the eCommerce software platform for growth that promises to revolutionize the industry. Its modular architecture and unprecedented flexibility means your business is no longer constrained by your eCommerce platform. Magento is total control.

 

  Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Joomla is an ideal choice for people who are looking for an easy to use CMS that can be up and running within days.

 

Zenphoto is an answer to lots of calls for an online gallery solution that just makes sense. After years of bloated software that does everything and your dishes, zenphoto just shows your photos, simply. It’s got all the functionality and “features” you need, and nothing you don’t. Where the old guys put in a bunch of modules and junk, we put a lot of thought. We hope you agree with our philosopy: simpler is better. Don’t get us wrong though –zenphoto really does have everything you need for your online gallery, and you’ll even stare in awe at some of the innovative innovations we innovated upon.

 

The MySQL® database has become the world's most popular open source database because of its consistent fast performance, high reliability and ease of use. It's used on every continent -- Yes, even Antarctica! -- by individual Web developers as well as many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software -- including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Google, Nokia, YouTube, and Zappos.com. Not only is MySQL the world's most popular open source database, it's also become the database of choice for a new generation of applications built on the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python.) MySQL runs on more than 20 platforms including Linux, Windows, OS/X, HP-UX, AIX, Netware, giving you the kind of flexibility that puts you in control.

 

  Ubuntu is a community developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers.

 

VMWare allows a company or programmer to configure a software program and an operating system for use and "wrap" them together as a "virtual appliance" so that no installation, setup, or configuration is required for the end user (beyond the installation and configuration of VMWare). With the use of VMware's Virtualisation, a complete setup including CMS,  database and HTTPserver can be configured within no-time, and makes setting up backup-system for your system a breeze.