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[News] Free and Open Source Software in Enterprise Networks

  • Subject: [News] Free and Open Source Software in Enterprise Networks
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:54:47 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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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.
| 
| [...]
| 
| 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.
| 
| 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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