Increasingly the answer to that question is no. We believe in many products that are "open", and will recommend them in many cases. There's a good chance that your website is running on a freely available operarting system like Linux or BSD and being served by the Apache webserver. There is considerable money to be saved in the realms of databases (Postgres, MySQL) and e-mail (Sendmail, Qmail) as well, without sacrificing stability. In fact, the afforementioned products are widely considered to be more stable and more scalable than their purchasable counterparts.

Can Open Source work for you?

The ability to design entire systems with no software expense helps us save you money. It also speeds development time as licenses do not have to be obtained to begin working.

Contact CMI to see if there are Open Source systems that can help you.