There has yet to be a discussion that open source products are now ready for total enterprise deployment. Photon has been involved in the open source community since its beginning and has been an active contributor to it in various products. Today for every off-the-shelf software product, a mature open source alternative exists. From the lower end like the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack to more specialized frameworks like Drupal or SugarCRM, Photon has worked with them all. The cost today of deploying an off-the-shelf software product is not necessarily the cost of the software but deployment and maintenance fees of the product. Today open source products are not necessarily chosen because of cost but because of additional features and lower maintenance cost. Photon grew up on Open source. Open source has matured and there are several new exciting products coming out to accommodate any enterprise needs with features often not found anywhere else.

The services offered under our Open Source practice include:

• Consulting on open source product selection
• Implementing open source solution
• Customizing open source products
• Building enterprise applications with open source products
• Maintaining open source applications