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Quartz Crystal Consulting relies 100% on open source software, both for its internal processes (e.g. email, accounting, office suite) as for system development purposes (e.g. webserver, database).
Quartz Crystal Consulting relies 100% on open source software, both for its internal processes (e.g. email, accounting, office suite) as for system development purposes (e.g. webserver, database). In short, open source software is software whose licenses give users the freedom to run the program for any purpose, to study and modify the program, and to redistribute copies of either the original or modified program. Over the past few years open source software has come on in leaps and bounds and is now overtaking proprietary applications with regards to reliability, performance, scalability, security, and total cost of ownership. More info: www.opensource.org linux Linux is an operating system that was initially created as a hobby by a young student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Linus had an interest in Minix, a small UNIX system, and decided to develop a system that exceeded the Minix standards. He began his work in 1991 when he released version 0.02 and worked steadily until 1994 when version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released. The kernel, at the heart of all Linux systems, is developed and released under the GNU General Public License and its source code is freely available to everyone. It is this kernel that forms the base around which a Linux operating system is developed. There are now literally hundreds of companies and organizations and an equal number of individuals that have released their own versions of operating systems based on the Linux kernel. More information on the kernel can be found at our sister site, LinuxHQ and at the official Linux Kernel Archives. The current full-featured version is 2.6 (released December 2003) and development continues. More info: www.linux.org php PHP is an open source server-side scripting language designed for creating dynamic Web pages (e.g., such as e-commerce) and is currently the internet's number one server-side scripting Language. PHP recently surpassed Microsoft’s ASP to become the most popular server-side Web scripting technology on the Internet - running on over 9 million sites, and over the past two years PHP has averaged a 6.5% monthly growth rate. More info: www.php.net
The MySQL database server is the world's most popular open source database. Over six million installations use MySQL to power high-volume Web sites and other critical business systems — including industry-leaders like The Associated Press, Yahoo, NASA, Sabre Holdings and Suzuki. More info: www.mysql.com
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