Solving Problems the Open Source Way
I’ve been playing around with the idea of creating and maintaining a long list of Open Source solutions that you can use for every IT aspect of your business. Over the years I’ve been comprising a list of Free Software and Open Source Projects and HowTos to pretty much do anything you need to do from an IT perspective. The wonderful thing about Open Source solutions is that you can try out and experiment with them and as a result I’ve got a good deal of experience with many of these solutions. I hope to expand on the over time giving more information on the projects I’ve actually worked with.
This list isn’t really targeted to Desktop Operating systems and application. This is for more the infrastructure level and the core services a business needs to run.
Firewall/Router
Application Firewall
Webserver
Application Server
Database
LDAP
File Server
Print Server
Mail Server
Mail Spam Filter
Network Monitoring
Security Monitoring
DNS
Proxy
FTP
SecureFTP
DHCP
Version Control
Web Reports
Administration Server
VPN
Back-Ups
Media Server
Virtualization
Search
Other Enterprise Software
Pentaho (Open Source Business Intelligence) – [Similar to Business Objects / Cognos]
Alfresco – [Similar to Sharepoint]
Telephone System
