Open Source & Open Source LIMS related articles

Open Source, it's companies and their place in the larger software ecosystem has recently gotten attention again through a couple of interesting write ups.

At Bika Lab Systems, when we come across interesting articles we post them in our Reads folder, for which we now have also enabled an RSS feed, so you can easily stay up to date with latest postings. The articles we added in August where;

• SaaS Myths Debunked – Laboratories and Scientific industries reap the benefits of SaaS
• What to look for in an Open Source Company

But I also wanted to mention the article 'Open Source.... not a Hippi, Commie Movement' by John H. Jones, of LabLynx, where apart from linking to our website, he also says that Bika Lab Systems is one of the 'very successful companies that are based upon the Commercial Open Source business model and they provide software that your lab needs' but also 'Right now we only have 2 real commercial open source LIMS vendors and I hope more will follow.'

I don't mind such a plug at all!-)