Open Source Software

The code used to write our software and tools isn't a secret, anyone can see it, developers can use it to customise and make tools of their own.

This gives you the piece of mind that there will be no hidden charges or agenda's with Trans4mer. We will not lock you in to a certain way of doing things and you are therefore not dependant on us in the future.

“Open source software — software whose source code is published and made available to the public, enabling anyone to copy, modify and redistribute the source code without paying royalties or fees. Open source code evolves through community cooperation. These communities are composed of individual programmers as well as very large companies.

Standards Based

As an example: In the early days of the Internet, Microsoft and Netscape were vying for custom. It appeared that they wanted their browser to become the standard - the only way for you to view the Internet. They both fought over what should or shouldn't be included in HTML. Often websites would need two different sets of code in order for people with IE and people with Netscape to both view them. This wasted time and money and wasn't an efficient way.

W3C

Since then, a group called W3C have created a set of 'standards' that all websites and browsers tend to follow in order to maximise their usability, meaning they can be viewed in the same way across many different browsers.

“The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public, work together to develop standards for the World Wide Web. W3C's mission is: