Why Geomajas is different

What we experienced was that the typical GIS applications used by or build for government or business:

• Come at a high cost: upfront investments in licenses, per user pricing or per CPU in a server and the vendor controlling the pricing of it all.
  
  
• Lack customer control: Proprietary control preventing choice and ability to switch to other vendors or to find developers that are not tied to a single vendor

That is why we decided to start developing an application framework where developers and users could benefit from in several ways:

• Low cost: an Open Source application framework that is for free, backed-up by a commercial services model with minimal upfront investment
  
  
• Choice: No lock-in to one GIS vendor or one software stack, when a vendor changes its pricing for support, development, licenses or consultants (all prices moving upwards most of the time), you have a choice to go elsewhere
  
  
• An integrated solution: no more separate desktop and server applications
  
  
• Open Source but providing the reliability of a true enterprise-class application framework