Choosing a platform for a billing system

Enterprises have a need in use of billing. Before actual choose of a billing system an appropriate platform has to be deployed. This work presents a study of a platform choosing for a billing system and shows the role of optimally chosen platform. In evaluation of a platform several criteria were considered: cost, scalability, reliability, safety, usability, portability and efficiency. In the thesis three different platforms MAC OS, Linux and MS Windows were studied. The results of the evaluation of each platform are shown and according to this results the most suitable platform for a billing system was chosen.