Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is the business model behind ROI Technology Solutions?

The business model is around the value-added layer of functionality that ROI puts around their integrated solutions that use Internet and Open Source software as well as the services offered around the solutions.

2. Why would a company purchase your solutions instead of going directly to each of the Opensource projects and downloading the software for free?

If a small or medium sized company has the IT personnel and the budget to work directly with opensource projects to get the solutions they require, then the company does not need ROI Technology Solutions and therefore should go directly to the opensource source community. The market that ROI Tech is serving is the company that does not have the IT personnel nor budget to dedicate resources to building their own solutions.
The value-add that ROI Technology Solutions is providing to this market is the IT know-how to iThe value add by ROI Technology Solutions is threefold: 1). We take opensource software applications and integrate them with other applications to provide an end to end solution; 2). We provide a layer of administration functionality that makes the installation and maintenance of the solution easy to use by the small and medium size business; and 3). We provide the services of directly interfacing with the opensource project teams to get the lastest patches and releases, get bugs fixed, and also request new feature functionality.

3. Are there other companys that are already using Open Source software?

Absolutely. Consider this fact alone - over 60% of the websites all over the world run the Open Source Apache HTTP web server. Similarly, there are hundreds of companies already using the Linux operating system and MySql database in their solutions. Today, most users of Open Source software are large companies that have highly skilled technical resources or small businesses and individuals that are proficient in IT. ROI is going to change this. It is making Open Source software available to the small and medium sized business.