Open source development is a methodology to create a software product in lowest cost and it is easy to edit the contents of the website. This software gives the better quality of the website with more flexibility. This is popular form the last few years. Open source technology makes business sense. Besides being free and of very high quality, it is often more powerful than most commercially available products. Reliability, scalability and stability are the major benefits of this technology. Today, open-source tools and methodology provide invaluable benefits to development cycle time, cost and quality of the end product. The advantages of the open source development tools are:
• Free installation and code flexibility
• Strong template support
• Complete customization
• User Friendly interface
There are number of famous and affordable content management system which enable you to build website like Joomla, Drupal, Mambo, and PHP- Nuke. Joomla is a free and most powerful open Source development tools which is used by millions of people across the world. PHP-Fusion is a light-weight Open Source Content Management System (CMS) and written in PHP. It uses a MYSQL database to store a web site's content and includes a simple but comprehensive administration system. Drupal is an open source content management system, which means that its source code is available for free and thus it can be easily acquired and used to power any web applications. It is a right CMS for business website that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content. Mambo is well-known for its unmatched properties in the field of web development. It is also the business orientated content management system which is written in PHP programming language.
The e-commerce web site design & development is also the part of the open source development. Ecommerce is the buying and selling of goods and services on the Internet. Zen Cart, Open Cart, Magento, X-cart etc are the open source Ecommerce. It is free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software which is based on PHP, using a MYSQL database and HTML components.
