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Or what an enterpise may need
We will go through a lot of various solutions that an enterprise can require to function properly. Going from the lowest layer to the highest in the company, we will found that the Open Source world can bring solutions regarding:
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The virtualization layer to reduce the hardware cost
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The network and applications management tools
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The collaborative software like mail, shared calendar, systems to share files, p rinters, knowledge, documents,...
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Backup, high-availability and disaster recovery solutions
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Databases, directories and user authentication and authorization system
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Security for the enterprise : anti-virus, anti-spam, firewall, web proxy, web filtering, ...
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Other high-level enterprise applications : ERP, CRM, ...
We are far from exhaustive in this section, we just want to give an overview over solutions that we have personaly tested or implemented at customer side, from Proof-Of-Concept to real life implementation.
Therefore don't blame me if you don't see here the solution that you are using each day. It doesn't means that she bad, just that I'ven't (yet) used it !
At the left, you can navigate between a choice of various topics.
To give a global overview about which applications can be used in the Enterprise, here is a matrix listing Open Source projects to achieve some a given function :
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Our choice
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Alternate solutions
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| DNS Server |
ISC BIND |
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| Central directory |
OpenLDAP |
Fedora Directory Server |
| Database |
PostgreSQL / EnterpriseDB |
MySQL |
| Web server |
Apache |
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| Application server |
JBOSS |
Jonas, Tomcat |
| Web proxy |
Squid |
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| Network and application monitoring |
Centreon & Nagios |
OpenNMS |
| Enterprise Content Managment System |
Alfresco |
O3Spaces |
| Document Management System |
KnowledgeTree |
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| Information Ressource Manager |
GLPI |
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| Mail and groupware server |
Zimbra Collaboration Suite with Funambol for PDA sync |
Zarafa with Z-Push for PDA sync |
| Web Content Management System |
Drupal |
Joomal, Plone, Typo3, Wordpress |
| File and print server |
Samba |
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| Telephony server |
Asterisk |
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| Fax server |
Hylafax |
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| Instant Messaging |
OpenFire |
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| VPN |
OpenVPN |
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| CRM |
SugarCRM |
Dolibarr |
| ERP |
OpenBravo |
Dampiere |
| Backup server & client |
Bacula |
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| Backup & system imaging |
Clonezilla |
Mondorescure |
| Business Intelligence |
JasperSoft |
Pentaho, Talend |
| High-availability |
UCARP, DRBD, Slony |
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| Intrusion detection |
Snort & BASE |
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| Helpdesk tools |
RT: Request Tracker |
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