As stated in Wikipedia "Open source is an approach to the design, development, and distribution of software, offering practical accessibility to a software's source code.". Open Source software is changing IT in a fundamental way. Open Source technology enables anyone to examine and develop the source code. This process has resulted in highly reliable, secure and high-performance applications. Open Source initiatives are cost effective compared with any other Properietory development platforms.

Open source solutions dominate the web world today and some of the largest websites like Yahoo, Google and many more others are using open source software.Deploying open source components is more than just programming since it requires industry knowledge and technological discipline to successfully build, modify and enhance those mechanisms.