What is organic software

With an increased emphasis on environmentally friendly
solutions, "organic software" is a phrase that you might have come
across recently. It's usually bandied about with concepts
such as green web services, solar or wind powered servers, or
eco-friendly hosting. In this article, we'll look at what
organic software actually is, and how you can implement it on your
website. Organic Software Organic software, in essence, is another
way of saying open source software - programs that are freely
available and that can be downloaded from the internet, and that
include full access to the source code so that they can be
developed even further. These programs are designed,
developed and distributed with absolutely no manufacturing
cost. There isn't a factory somewhere putting this code onto
disk. As such, it is carbon neutral, and can be considered a
green alternative to commercially available software. Organic
conveys this sense of eco-friendliness. It also implies that
the software is in a state of development, that it can picked up
and improved in a natural and organic way by open source
programmers. Once this has been understood, you'll very
quickly realize that there are hundreds of thousands of programs
out there that can be classified as organic. Organic Web Hosting If
you're looking for organic web hosting or content management, then
freely developed and designed programs such as Drupal would fit the
bill. Gimp, Picasa2 and Nvu are organic web design programs,
vTiger is an organic customer relationship management program, and
WAMP is an organic server management program bringing together
Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP. All of these programs were
put together and refined by communities of developers across the
globe, and they can all be yours for nothing more than a click of a
download button.Perhaps the most famous exponent of organic
software is Mozilla Firefox, which declares itself to be 100%
organic. It's a non-profit organization, and all of its
products were developed by a community, rather than an in-house
team of designers. Anybody can take the Firefox web browser
source code and do what they like with it. The rationale
behind this is that it make for a stronger, more flexible and more
user friendly product in the end.Ultimately, then, organic software
isn't anything new, and if you've ever downloaded a free program
onto your computer, you already know how to implement it.
What is new is the move to associate open source programming with
the environmental movement. There is tremendous pressure not
only to be green, but to be seen to be green, so it makes great
business sense to rebrand open source product as ecologically
friendly. In this case, it's simply taking something that was
already eco-friendly - open source software - and explicitly
telling everybody that this is so.