The driving force behind open software is the unrestricted freedom of talented individuals to create new and great things. This freedom transforms an average corporate programmer into an artist. This is being the driving force that persuades thousands of people worldwide to switch to the open source model of development. If there was anything revolutionary in the field of software during the last 7 years, it was arguably open source becoming the way of creating things.

Open source is an inalienable part of the Enterprise IT these days. It has become a de-facto standard in many (if not most) areas of software development. Software written by community and distributed with source code freely available has a number of undeniable advantages. It reduces the cost of operating a business, results in higher security (no more "security by obscurity"), and gives individuals and small businesses access to the latest technological advances, something they could not afford before.

Adoption of the open source technologies and open standards by the businesses and governments worldwide allows their IT departments to concentrate on writing software that deals with their business, instead of recreating the infrastructure. This also means far greater opportunities for outsourcing. The separation between business knowledge and software engineering knowledge has finally reached the point when given a set of business requirements, a professional engineering company can build a custom solution based on commonly available infrastructure and components. And a totally different engineering company can later maintain this solution. I.e. there is no more vendor lock-in for the customers - customer chooses vendors based on their merits, instead of being based on the price to switch from a particular technology.

ObjectStyle was started by open source developers, forming around a successful open source project. Providing services based on free software is the core of our philosophy as a business. Our founders and developers dedicate uncounted hours to advance and perfect open source software.

As outlined above, ubiquity of the software components changes the playing field in the software industry. And we are standing up to the challenge by building ObjectStyle brand as the name that is associated with great free software, and can be trusted on a project of any scale.