Application Assembly Approach vs. Custom Development

Reduced development costs

• Amortization of development costs
• Custom applications that are prohibitively expensive to build from scratch can be assembled at reasonable cost because the components exist and acquisition costs are low
• Access to talent is increased as most top developers are increasingly using open source in their development initiatives

Reduced support and maintenance costs

• You reduce maintenance costs for the components because they are amortized over the component´s community
• You reduce support costs by working with the community yourself or by leveraging the wider variety of commercial support options
• You have a broader pool of resources who are familiar with and can support an open source project than your custom code

Speed of Development

• You can use already-existing components