Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is available in source code form for which the source code and certain other rights, which are normally reserved with copyright holders, are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.

Open source software are used in almost every system application, may it be telecommunication systems, inventory, accounting, personal productivity applications, contact management and operating systems amongst others. Open source applications are available for every common type of enterprise software -- from databases, application servers and Web servers, to Web browsers and office applications, to network monitoring software and security software.

OSS are found to be better than their commercial equivalents as OSS provides great value with desired ROI. OSS comes with very economical acquisition and deployment model, which enables organizations to dedicate greater portions of their budgets to customizations and innovations that are more essential. They are high-quality software with lesser hardware costs, integrated management, simple license management, higher reliability, better security, more flexibility, lower cost, more support and no vendor lock-in.

To avail the benefits of Open Source Software Development, hire webPix. You can click here to contact us or write to us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

webPix have a team of professional open source developers who have excellent domain knowledge and have expertise to develop applications in  using niche technologies such as Liferay, Magento, Alfresco, Interwoven, Joomla, Drupal and WordPress and many more.

Given below is a brief description of a few OSS technologies webPix excel in:

- Liferay Portal: World's leading open source enterprise portal solution that uses the latest in Java and Web 2.0 technologies. Liferay is gaining immense popularity across the globe, including India and has become the preferred choice of all Intranet application developers.

- Magento: A professional eCommerce platform built on open-source technology. It provides a businessman with complete flexibility and control to decide the look, content and functionality of his own online eCommerce store.

- Alfresco: A general purpose content repository with content management services. It can be used to manage all your business documents and transform them in web-ready formats (HTML, PDF) and categorize them linking into overall site navigation and index pages. Alfresco can also be used to capture HTML pages using an included WYSIWYG editor.

- Interwoven: Interwoven ContentServices 2.0 is a services-oriented architecture (SOA) and provides standards-based access to content management services such as task management, workflow, user rights, project configuration, and versioning.

- Joomla: It is a widely used powerful and feature-rich CMS which helps you to build imaginative websites and strong online applications. Joomla is in corporate Websites, Corporate intranets and extranets, many online periodicals, E-commerce, small businesses, community-based portals etc.  

- Virtue Mart: VirtueMart is a Joomla component that is used as a shopping cart and/or as a gallery for images, depending on your website.

- osCommerce: It is a popular eCommerce software, which offers a range of benefits, such as Shopping cart installment, Content management, Discussion forums, Creating product catalogue, Product reviews, Most selling products list, Secure gateway for online transactions and many more. These features can help in building a highly interactive eCommerce environment.

- Drupal: It is open-source software available under the General Public License,  especially made for content management system (CMS) framework, written in PHP and has numerous freely available add-on modules with excellent features like E-commerce, blogs, collaborative writing facility, newsletters, podcasting, picture galleries etc.

- WordPress: It is web software that comes in handy to create elegant CMS websites and blogs. This core software is developed by a large number of community volunteers and there are plenty of plug-ins and themes to incredibly change your site to include amazing features.

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