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Top 10 Enterprise Open Source Apps

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It's a well known fact today that there's an open source equivalent to just

about every commercial software offering. As of Feb last year, sourceforge.net,

the ultimate destination for downloading all kinds of open source software,

reported 230,000 open source projects on its site. That's obviously a lot of

software, but the troubleis that not all of it is usable. Many projects would be

new and still in development phase, many would have become obsolete, and yet

others would have no support. So the challenge obvious-ly is to find the right

one for your needs.

In this story, we bring you ten best of breed applications of open source

software that can be used in an enterprise environment. So whether it's your

data center or Internet connectivity, enter-prise apps or security and data

recovery, you'll find an open source software to meet your require-ments. In our

story, we've given specific software recommendations in some cases, and talked

about how to deploy the same, while in others, we have covered an area and

provided a list of software to choose from.

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We start off by looking at what kind of applications can be deployed in a

data center. These include software for deploying directory services, systems

management, data backup, storage, and even software that can automatically

rectify problems with systems on your network.

We then look at a very crucial part of everyenterprise-bandwidth management,

and talk about how to use open source software to monitor your bandwidth usage.

We than move to a growingarea of importance in open source--enterpriseapps.

Though there are lots of ERP and CRM soft-ware available for download, this area

has notevolved as much as the other areas. That's why,we've given a set of

options to choose from among open source ERP and CRM solutions based on the

number of people who've downloaded them from sourceforge.

The fourth type of open source software that we've looked at is for

penetration testing and data recovery. Here, we talk about the best of breed

tools to monitor your network and counter a hack-attack; and tools to recover

accidentally deleted data.

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Lastly, we've given a list of open source soft-ware available on Windows for

another emergingarea-Business and Artificial Intelligence.

In a nutshell, today there are enough options available in the open source

world to help you run just about every aspect of your business. We hope you find

this story useful, and are able to use these tools to save costs, and improve

productivi-ty in your organization.

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