Karaseva L.M. 1
Dorofeev A.V. 2
1 Branch of USATU in the city of Sterlitamak
2 Branch of Bashkir State University in the city of Sterlitamak
The author considers questions of development of information competency as a result of professional training of students of the University. Adoption of open-source and cross-platform software in educational process of a technical University is investigated there. There is the ratio of the use of open-source and proprietary software in studying and individual work of the students of high school, represented according to the research results. The article covers the advantages of different types of open-source software in comparison with proprietary counterparts in the study of the basic course in Informatics. There were identified organizational and pedagogical conditions, types and forms of educational activity, contributing to the formation of the information competency of students with the help of open-source software in training.