At JSICorp, we make use of Open Source technologies such as FreeBSD & Apache to run our web servers, using PHP & MySQL to power our web sites. This technology is not only free (as in no cost), but it is open for modification by anyone. This lowers both "cost of ownership" and "cost of development" - which transfers to savings, savings that we pass on to our clients.

Open Source does NOT mean that you do not own your site, or that others can "steal" your site. What it does mean is we can use the source code, and build up from it by adding our own code and technology to it to create your custom web site, which you will own completely -- right down to the source code. Should you choose to take your web site to another host or developer at some point, they will have full access to everything that drives your web site. JSICorp does not retain any "downstream" rights nor do our clients have to pay any fees or royalties to anyone.

From OpenSource.org:

"The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.

We in the open source community have learned that this rapid evolutionary process produces better software than the traditional closed model, in which only a very few programmers can see the source and everybody else must blindly use an opaque block of bits."