Hosting and Deployment: Open-Sourced vs. Proprietary
Learn how to choose between open-sourced vs. proprietary cloud-sourced software.
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Another choice we need to make regarding the destination repository is whether to use open-source software or proprietary solutions.
Open-source software (OSS)
An open-source software (OSS) is a model for distributing software in which the software and its underlying code base are freely available for users to use, modify, and distribute (under specific licensing terms). OSS is created by a certain user or a small team and then released into the wild for public use. Or, an enterprise first develops it as a solution for a certain problem, and after a while, it decides to release it as open-source software.
Community managed OSS
OSS can be managed completely free by a large community of developers. The community will collaborate and innovate the existing code base of the OSS and distribute it for free for anyone to use (for example, PostgreSQL). These types of OSS require users to install, host, maintain, and upgrade the software in their own environment, which can be trivial or extremely complicated. ...