Free Software

Free Software (or Open Source Software) is distributed with licences that allow its usage whitout any kind of restrictions includint the permission to modify. Therefore this lets any organization to fit the adopted software solutions to its own needings.

Free Software allows users to mantaint its decisional freedom since it allows a careful planning of the investment by keeping the focus on the real needigs of a company apart from the commercial policies of software vendors. Free Software it is no novelty. It is the engine that runs most of the internet services - 80% of electronic mails, 70% of web pages, 90% of domain name resolvers and it is used inside of many proprietary software that pople commonly use.
Even development tools used by many software houses are based un Free/Open Source Software and which is also used as basis for the most important scientific and aerospatial calculation systems.
People, companies, research institutes and universities cooperate continuosly to create software and IT infrastructures whose values increases in time by focusing on standards and interoperabily.