CommonPlaces exclusively develops open source solutions. Open source software, and its accompanying source code, is free for anyone to use and modify. This has its financial benefits, to be sure, and we pass these savings on to our clients. But there are more advantages to open source than simply saving money. Stated simply, we believe that open source is often more capable, more secure, and just plain better than proprietary options. Why is this? Open source software has a larger development team than any software company in the world, as anyone in the world is free to make improvements upon it. The result is a robust piece of software that has been thoroughly examined by some of the most capable programmers in the world.