Development Process Advantages
- Adoption of sophisticated development platforms and tools
	
	- operating systems: GNU/Linux and FreeBSD,
 
	- databases: PostgreSQL and MySQL,
 
	- application servers: JBoss,
 
	- optimizing compilers: gcc,
 
	- integrated development environments: Eclipse KDevelop,
 
	- build managers: make and ant,
 
	- version control management systems: CVS.
 
	
 
-  Adoption of software engineering processes
	
	- version control
 
	- peer reviews,
 
	- version control
 
	- peer reviews
 
	- issue tracking
 
	- release engineering
 
	- regression testing.
 
	
 
-  Learn from the source