If you are thinking about using open source accounting for your application software, think and plan carefully before going into work without knowing the pros and cons between open source versus the commerce source accounting system! Let me share some fact with you:

Fact #1 – Open source required sharing your source code.
Do you already know that open source project would require you to open source your modification and enhancement? For commercial software vendor, this will decrease the value of your asset, and lower your competitive advantages to your competitor!

Fact #2 – Faster support response for Paid Source Accounting.
Unless your development team are strong enough to handle everything themselves, you need a good support from the source code vendor, or you won’t be fast enough to complete your project on schedule.

Fact #3 – Paid Source Accounting is easier to modify, enhance and integrate.
Commercial source code must fulfill these 3 criteria to be successful, but open source accounting with lack of consistency in source code and no assurance for faster integration in the process will greatly burden your project progress!

Fact #4 – Open source is more service oriented.
Commerce source code will let you earn both service and software money and at the same time gain higher competitive advantages over the open source project, because your competitor will not be able to replicate your success by copying your source code!

To leverage the advantage of both open source and commerce source, I recommend:
Use commerce source as your core, and open source as your supplement project, gains both advantages at the same time! Let open source do the non-important work for you while you retain the core system of your product! You only “open source” the required and non-critical part of your software, while all important commercial trade secrets still remain to yourself, keep your asset secure, safe and valued!

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