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Open Source Business

I feel like writing a series of posts talking about various pieces of software that are great replacements for many of the classical closed/costly software packages that companies tend to purchase. Over the past year I have been able take a close look at a few great open source solutions out there. During my experimenting, testing, breaking and re-building I grew fond of quite a bit of software out there and I want to make sure that businesses know they have choices.

I plan on writing about some new services(IM) that businesses are starting to rely on, as well as the old classics(Email). It will be a discussion of the various pieces of technology that I have used and how they work well within a company, so if I don’t talk about something it probably because I have not used it. But please do comment if you have ideas. I will also talk about the Operating Systems that I prefer to run

I plan on hitting the following topics:

• Communication
  • Corporate IM
  • Email/Groupware
  • Wiki’s
  • Document Management/Collaboration
  • Telephony
  • Issue/Request/Ticket Tracking
• Business Intelligence
  • Reporting
  • Analysis
• Network Management
  • Security
  • Monitoring
  • VPNs/Firewalls

Stay tuned… they are coming soon.