The Department of Computer Applications,Cochin University of Science and Technology in collaboration with the world famous organization Machine intelligence research Lab is conducting a two day international symposium on "Innovations in Natural computing", INC 2009.

One obvious solution is to approach a software development company and obtain a custom built product. However to take this approach one needs to first know what features and functionality is desired. Then on the other hand in some instances the need does not warrant the cost of commissioning a custom application.

A plethora of free open source web applications exist today. Regardless of the specific circumstances of the need these applications can quite often prove to be a valuable resource.

PHP-Nuke, PHP PostNuke, TikiWiki, Xoops, b2evo---you can find them everywhere in the web. These are all the open source software solution used in various areas of web applications. These are most of the time free applications released under special licensing terms. This allows the coding to be shared by all and edited to suit the unique needs of the user.

What is the secret behind this immense popularity of all these software? The use of open source software has some practical benefits. Let us discuss about them in details.

Website Design involves lot of coding for many people.Also people are willing to spend lot of money to design a website.The security and reliability of such web sites designed by newbie programmers is often a problem.When hackers attack even well designed sites,What can we say about these newbie sites?

Open source content management systems offers a solution to this dilemma. That too free of cost. They can be thought of as well built frameworks,where you can put your content.The site is designed ,source code is available.you just add the content!!

A friend, who had worked in Brazil for a couple of years, once told me, “Kerala is known in Latin America for Free Software.” This indicates the extent to which Kerala has dominated the Free Software scenario in India.

i was very fortunate to attend a seminar on free software conducted by uc college aluva i thought it would be nice to share the information that i got from there free software doesnt mean that it is free of cost but its something else we are given the code along with the product so one can be very much sure what it does inside ur computer i had a feeling that why should one know the code if u r happy with the softwarebut the thing is we should know for u should be sure that the software that u are using doesnt do anything that is harmful to ur computer and ur security without u knowing as an e