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Open Source Strategy

The Open Source Strategy relies on open, transparent processes, target-oriented thinking, openness toward new ideas, knowledge efficiency, and the finding of solutions together with partners.

We are convinced that the future lies in integration and not in separation. The flexible utilization of components of different system origins and quick-reacting business processes are a decisive competitive advantage for companies.

IT architectures must be able to make it possible. We value Open Standards since these guarantee the necessary interoperability of the interfaces. We use the potential of sophisticated Free Software projects in a targeted manner because immense economical and technological resources lie here. For us, Open Source Strategy also means the pragmatic inclusion of proprietary elements: what cannot be implemented with Free Software, succeeds with a mix of free and proprietary software. We have done our work when you can work freely.

We see it as an important part of our business strategy to support the community of free developers. We work with like-minded partners, campaign for Free Software, and consciously seek exchange on open platforms.

Free Software projects

The economic meaning of Free Software is still underestimated. In the process, we consider the savings in license costs that are generally listed as a reason for Open Source migration to be secondary. Decisive for us is primarily the strategic potential and the technological possibilities opened up to our customers and even us by our Open Business Strategy: expense efficiency, low tool cost threshold, the continued improvement of existing implementations, and the possibility to focus worldwide technological competence in solution-oriented manner.

The complexity of the business processes and thus the requirements on IT systems long exceed the possibilities of purely proprietary suppliers. The EU estimated the overall value of all sophisticated Open Source solutions was estimated to be EUR12 billion in the Merit Study. The amount the freely available code lines has been doubling at 1½ to 2 year intervals in the last eight years, tendency rising. We can freely use and reuse this know-how, supplement it with proprietary components, and adapt it precisely to the technical requirements of our customers.

With our licence strategy of "growing and reusing" we contribute that the pool of well-developed free software grows on our lixid platform as well as in the community of free developers. When possible and practical, we put the products of our work under free licence.