I Made Sathyabudi Adnyana, 26 years, known as Budi Baliwae is a Linux activist and young entrepreneur. The owner of Toko Baliwae (http://toko.baliwae.com), a Linux and open source company located at Bali, Indonesia. Have one child and wise wife Love Linux and programming. Member of Slackware, Mandriva and Ubuntu Local Community. Have a nice blog at http://majalah-linux.baliwae.com

BiOS Baliwae, acronym from Billing Open Source Baliwae is free open source billing for internet caffe, especially that use GNU/Linux as operating system for their server and client PC. BiOS is licensed under GNU Public License (GPL) version 3. BiOS is a web based application, that developed using PHP, MySQL and other open source softwares, running on web server like Apache or Lighttpd.

BiOS main program are divided into two side, the operator side and client side. Client can know the time duration that they use and cost that they must pay from their PC. The administrator can set the internet price per hour, set happy hour, can monitor client, start, stop and reset billing, also print out the bill, view report in 3D graphic, etc. As free application, BiOS have same features and functions that provided by other commercial / close source billing . With the easy interface and instalation that not require many dependency, and can run on all linux distribution and cross platform operating system, make BiOS better than other.

Why open source? Budi, as BiOS creator, believe open source is a better way to develop and deliver software. It’s certainly more transparent and holds us accountable to the community. Given its use of standards, it gives customers flexibility and protection from vendor lock-in. Further, it lets us leverage the expertise of the community to build a better product. And of course, the product could never be as full-featured as it is without using open source software.

This in turn lets us deliver an amazing amount of commercial-grade functionality for free and a fully supported solution at dramatically lower prices than proprietary vendors.

website: http://bios.baliwae.com

nice software…warnet2 mesti punya nih..hehe..

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