Why open source?

An Open Platform Empowers Audiences

The Web is changing. People now expect context-rich Web experiences that use location, presence, behavior and the social web to anticipate their needs. For ten years, Hippo has set the standard in Open Source Web Content Management – and now the company is innovating and disrupting the market yet again. The demand for contextually-aware content platforms has created new challenges for Web content management. And, it makes Hippo the perfect solution to meet this new challenge. Our support and passion for common, open standards and open source software empower OUR audiences to develop powerful solutions that can empower theirs.

Open Source Makes Business Sense

The Web is a critical part of business – and having the ability to create powerful, content platforms that drives that business is an essential piece.   Open Source Web Content Management software enables the organization to build higher quality, scalable and more secure content strategies.   
Open Source software, time and again, enables the business with:

  • Reduced Costs.  No software licensing or maintenance costs.  And, you choose to manage it yourself - or subscribe to support and services – or even fully on-demand software service solutions.
  • Greater Power, Scalability & Speed – Hippo’s Open Source and standards-compliant platform provides agility for the developer development - and a world-wide community to draw from.
  • A Portable, Enterprise-Class Solution – Hippo’s Open Source platform is built to move into other environments that are Open Standards based. This gives the business greater portability if requirements ever mandate a move to an On-Demand model, a partner-driven model – or a self-managed model.

Commercial Open Source Is The Best Of Both Worlds

At Hippo, we believe that innovation comes out of collaboration.  And, the collaboration with our developer community has helped us innovate a powerful Web content management platform.
But we also realize the business requirement to deploy a content platform with enterprise-class stability, dependability and secure integrations. By offering our Commercial Open Source solution, accompanied by our world-class support organizations – we help businesses deploy a content strategy they can depend on.