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Free and Open: 18 No-Cost Solutions for Your Enterprise Network
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| There are many ways to save money on the
| network. Small businesses can even get
| enterprise features without spending top
| dollar. In this piece, I'll highlight many
| different operating systems, routers,
| services, applications and servers -- all of
| which are free -- most open source.
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http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsysm/article.php/3876306/Free+and+Open:+18+No-Cost+Solutions+for+Your+Enterprise+Network.htm
Open innovation is coming of age
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| The admirable wikihow.com, which uses
| crowdsourcing to generate "How to" videos
| that attract 25 million visitors a month,
| won the Co-creation award, while Open
| Office, the open source alternative to
| Microsoft's Office, won the Open Source
| Software section in recognition of the
| progress that has been made over the years
| to make it more user-friendly.
|
| [...]
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| The trouble is that this Kremlinesque
| approach has resulted in such beautiful
| game-changing products as the iPhone and
| iPad that are a delight to use as reported
| in the Observer. Contrast that with Google's
| adoption of open source software for its
| Android phones. This is much better in
| theory as it allows developers to do their
| own thing but in practice, at least so far,
| this results in all sorts of different
| software versions that don't always work too
| well on the varying sizes and hardware of
| different Android phones. As Steven Johnson
| has pointed out, Steve Jobs has turned a
| walled garden into a rainforest.
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| There is no doubt that open source solutions
| are on a roll and there are lots of areas
| where they will sweep all before them. The
| problem yet to be solved is how to harness
| the freedom and creativity that open
| collaboration offers with the need to have
| consumer friendly products that non-geeks
| will want to buy with their own money.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/14/open-innovation-victor-keegan
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