Debate is still on; how does an open source company make money? This has been an ongoing question for any traditional brick-and-mortar company and will always be a challenge for a normal person to understand is Open source really mean open. We have been delivering custom build applications on Open Source and have developed a niche in building enterprise level application to suit different vertical needs. Before I get to what we are doing with Open Source, let me first tackle the fundamental question on Open Source. Open Source is literally like an engine which has no intrinsic value unless its been housed in a body, energized by fuel and configured for the right vehicle.

Open Source is the foundation platform which offers a framework of how one can achieve certain business processes by configuring, organizing or customizing. And yes, this is where the Open Source companies make money and where the boundary is drawn between an Open Source company and a revenue based company. We at Corelynx through our past five years engagement with Open Source have helped us shape up our product portfolio for different vertical markets viz. Insurance, Credit Repair, Real Estate, Automobile Online Marketplace and Customer Relationship and Acquisition management. We take pride in having two of our product architecture got patented. From customer point of view the biggest challenge is the selection of the right product framework and then defining how the configuration or customization can take place.

It is very important to plan the usage of Open Source framework in such a way that they are upgrade safe and flexible enough for future enhancements. Corelynx has diversified its operations using Open Source for Business Applications, Content Management and Personalization, Customer Acquisition and Management and Internet Marketing. Through the use of Open Source, it has benefited Small and Medium enterprises, who previously compromised the use of technology due to high cost of ownership and heavy time commitment. By using our reselected Open Source offerings we mature and educate our clients how to define their process for better handling and management.

Corelynx provides a full portfolio of open source services that include:

Open source consulting services: Evaluate the current state of your IT infrastructure and organization, identify areas ripe for improvement, and plan and design solutions that can boost service quality and ROI. Offerings encompass TCO/business case analysis, open source compliance services, Linux discovery workshops, and open source education/training services.

Deployment services: Get up-and-running with confidence; take time, risk, and worry out of the installation and startup process; and free your people to address strategic IT and business challenges.

Application development services: Corelynx consultants work with you to build applications based on your specific requirements and leveraging best-of-breed methodologies and tools for architectural design, development, and testing.

Application modernization/migration services: We migrate your existing solution in its entirety from a proprietary stack to open source stack; based on requirements, we can also migrate specific components within the solution to use an open source equivalent. We integrate existing proprietary and open source stack solutions using web services and integration enablers in the open source domain.

Management and support services: Make the most of your open source solution with high-quality hardware/software technical support featuring flexible response times and coverage levels, proactive mission-critical support, real-time remote monitoring and problem identification, single-source accountability for multivendor service management and support.

Security services: Assess your security readiness, risks, and vulnerabilities; strengthen your defenses against security threats; and ease information access for your employees, customers, and partners.