A few advantages of Open Source software:

Quality Not only does software evolve into a stable product, a large userbase also supplies new possibilities, making it a feature-rich solution. More new features, less bugs and a broader (testing) audience (peer-review) are significant to the quality of a product.

Reliable Open-source software is peer-reviewed software; it is more reliable than closed, proprietary software. Mature open-source code is as bulletproof as software ever gets!

Flexible Open, not proprietary systems. No matter what happens, you will never be in a position of being stuck with a legacy solution that no-one can: a) extend b) extract data from and c) fix bugs on. This is of course due to the fact that we supply the full source code as part of the solution.

Secure The open-source model also means increased security; because code is in the public view it is exposed to extreme scrutiny, with problems being found and fixed instead of being kept secret until the wrong person discovers them.