Open Software Industrial Co-operative Society Limited (OSSICS) is the first Software Development Industrial venture in the cooperative sector of kerala, India. The Head office is in the Ernakulam District of Kerala State. OSSICS had its birth in the year 1998. When the group of IT Professionals dedicated themselves to the promotion of General Public Licence (GPL) Software. All products and services offered by OSSICS are in GPL software platforms keeping in mind the aspects of freedom, self-reliance and cost of ownership to its customers.

Vision 

•  Transform Kerala into a Global destination for knowledge based services and Free Software Services.
• Emerge as an Industrial model in the IT Sector which is Pro - labour vis-a-vis freedom of knowledge and distribution of welth

Mission

• Generate Innovative ideas.
• Build partnership for development & implementation of GPL Softwares.
• Build Entrepreneurship in free software services.
• Develop cost effective software for the domestic market.
• Total technology transfer to customers

Services

•  Consultancy in Business process Re-engineering 
• Content generation for building up Information System
• System Software Development for Linux Environments
• Porting of Existing Applications into GNU/Linux
• Database Solutions based on PostgreSQL & MySQL
• Web-portal Solutions based on Linux, Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL/MySQL
• Set up and Maintenance for Linux Server systems

Knowledge

• Accounting Systems in General & Telecom Accounting system in particular
• Fixed Asset Management Systems
• Works Management Systems
• ERP Systems for print media
• Lingustic Solutions 
• Data Warehousing Systems for E- governence
• Core banking Systems
• Process Instrumentation & Control