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Welcome To Open Source Services

We provide low cost open source internet solutions to small and medium sized organizations. Our services include the installation and configuration of a wide variety of open source internet applications to suit customers needs. We also provide hosting services at the most competitive rates available on the internet.

Open Source Services is also the home of several popular extensions to the osCommerce, oscMax, CRE Loaded and Zen Cart open source shopping carts. These include:

Product Attribute Pictures - a dynamic imaging solution for osCommerce, CRE Loaded and Zen Cart. A selection of low-cost add-ons to the core PAPs functionality are also available to help save you more time and further enhance the user experience.
CineSound Audio and Video - a multimedia configuration tool for embedding Windows Media Player, QuickTime, Real and Flash players in osCommerce stores.
Proforma - a comprehensive content management system for osCommerce and CRE Loaded.
Adsense Control Center - a Google Adsense configuration and positioning manager for osCommerce and Zen Cart.

All our products have both free versions and more feature-rich premium versions. Free versions can be found in the 'Downloads' section, and premium versions can be purchased in the 'Products/OSS Premium Add-Ons' section.

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What Is Open Source?

'Open Source' refers to the code (or 'source') of a program being available for free distribution and alteration by anyone (thus it is 'open'). It is an alternative to what is known as 'proprietory' code, where a person or company has the sole right to distribute or change the code as they see fit - usually at a price.

Programs based on open source code are free.

What Is Offshoring?

Whichever of our customer groups you belong to, we can build you a website or add functionality to an existing site using either third party or custom made open source components.

Unless you are situated in Thailand, the work we carry out for you will fall under the definition of offshoring. Offshoring is the term used to describe a business process or project - in this case the installation, configuration, customization and/or maintenance of open source web applications - which takes place in a different country form the one where it is required...