Why pay to write source code? Paid software alternatives.

While organisations and employees both continue to reduce their expenditure, there is a cost of licensing the software used by software engineers in their day to day work. This takes up a huge amount of money that an organisation spends on its employees, just to enable them to do their work.

In this article I have compiled a list of paid software alternatives that an organisation can use to reduce their licensing cost effectively.

Base Machine

An employee could be using a desktop or a laptop for their work. The configuration varies based on the work the employee does. For a typical software developer an i5 or Ryzen 5 CPU, 8 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD storage should be sufficient. It’s better to spend money on a 4K monitor with 60Hz or higher refresh rate rather than spending it on i7 or other premium CPU or extra storage unless it’s really required. A 13 inch screen would be an excellent choice to carry easily while the external monitor will make the office work station stressless.

Operating System

While MacBooks come with MacOS for free forever but Windows based devices require license to be purchased separately or bundled with the new device. Furthermore for every major upgrade the Windows license need to be repurchased for every employee.

An alternative is to use Linux based machines but this doesn’t motivate most of the employees as they struggle to learn the Linux commands.

Software License

An organisation’s job is not done by just purchasing the laptop or desktop with just an operating system. They need to buy more software licenses like antivirus, office application suite, email service, collaboration software, task tracker, source code versioning tools, source code editors etc. This is growing rapidly and most them require a licence to be purchased for every user.

Most of the software are now provided with subscription based license. We can no longer buy a software and use it forever. This means every month we need to pay a huge amount of money for every employee just to get software subscription licenses for them.

Source Code Editor

There are mix of source code editors available in the market which include both free and paid licenses. While a free editor can somehow get the job done but the paid editor makes developer’s life and work much easier. In order to attract the best talents an organisation is forced to buy these editors with a huge licensing cost.

There is an alternative to it. CoreIDE editor comes with the features that a paid editor or an IDE provide but at no cost. It’s a completely free forever editor with support for Java, JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript, Spring, Spring Boot, React, Express, J2EE, Vue, Backbone, AngularJS and many more. If an organisation starts using it then they can save a huge amount of money.

Download CoreIDE- https://coreide.com

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