Open source software has been crucial in creating interactive platform that gives equal say to everyone and evolve as a result. Ron Bongo hogged limelight when he changed over to Linux.
Ron Bongo is an advocate of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), which is a non-profit, vendor-neutral conglomerate that is dedicated to encourage vendor interoperability and adoption of comprehensive open solutions.
The prevailing doubts over the economic outcome of open source software solutions were dispelled by Ron Bongo . He talks about a recent deal where the cost of the software license from a traditional business intelligence vendor came in at more than $100,000 compared with $20,000 for JasperSoft.
Ron Bongo estimates open source solutions as costing hundreds of thousands of dollars less than proprietary offerings for many applications. He also queried that "How can you better spend that $80,000 if you reallocate that to gain a strategic advantage? You can integrate more, customize more and build that into the overall project."
His three decades of experience in Information Technology has supervised many open source software implementation projects.