Team PCQuest
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.
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.
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.