Cut the Cost of IT with Open Source

base2Services has successfully delivered significant cost cutting solutions to its clients for the past 3 years. This is achieved in both Application Server Migration and Design of Solutions that move you onto robust and enterprise grade open source platforms.

The time has come to consider reducing your overall licensing expenditure whilst improving the quality of your applications. We will show you the best way to cut out your expensive software licensing costs and help you along the way.

This is just one of the many Open Source Service products we offer our clients. Find out more.

The Open Source Products we use

These days you have many open source products that are just as feature rich, reliable, useful, and usable as their closed source counterparts. And some would argue that they're even better than their closed source counterparts. Such Open Source products include JBoss, Resin, Hibernate, Seam, Drools, jBPM, Nuxeo, Ingres, PostGres and Jasper. If you have never heard of these products then give us a call and we will be more than happy to explain the benefits and cost savings these products will give you. Of course there are many more than those mentioned here and we are happy to discuss those in length too.

Although we cut the cost of Licensing, you still get the full professional service and support offered by the companies that support these products. For example: Moving from a closed source Application server to JBoss Application server would save you around 90% in your upfront costs, not to mention the improved performance gains that are typical with using JBoss. That could well be in the millions.
 

How we do this

Migrating to JBoss

• We start by assessing your existing enterprise applications built on top of Application Servers licensed by Oracle and IBM. This usually takes up to 1 day per Application.
• We then provide you a report on what you need to do to migrate these applications onto Open Source whilst maintaining existing functionality.
• We also provide a quote to help you gage the effort required, and we stick to it. You will be surprised at how quickly a migration can be achieved by people with the right experience.

You can read more about Migrating to Open Source using JBoss following this link.

Designing using cost conscious solutions

• We start by engaging the project team and in particular the product sponsors and business analysts.
• We then engage your Architecture team to understand the existing environment and see how reuse within the solution can take place.
• We then provide you a high level solution design using Open source where appropriate to fill the gaps in the required solution. You will be surprised how most Open Source packages are now out of the box with minimal customisation required.
• We then help you find the best partner to deliver the solution.

You can read more about our processes and strategic architecture here.