What all SMBs and Enterprises can do with OpenSource

1. Open Source & free softwarefor your business Anindya Roy Associate Editor and Head of Labs CyberMedia Labs - PCQuest

2. Agenda What's Open Source and Free Software? What all is available for Free and how good they are? Where to get them from? How to choose? What about support?

3. What is Open Source? Free software is not always Open Source Open Source does not always means Linux All Linux software is not free Free software doesn’t mean free support An application which comes with source code is Open Source

4. What's a Linux distro? Has a base of the Linux kernel + GNU software Customized by different companies to suite their requirements. e.g. PCQLinux, Fedora, Debian, OpenSuse, What’s a Live Distro? Runs from a CD/DVD or USB Drive No need to install Available as both general purpose and specialized distros. Eg: Knoppix, SLAX, Adios, Backtrack, etc

5. What’s available? Desktop, server, and embedded General computing Production Servers Network Administration Security Internet Gateway Specialized usage

6. At the desktop Office Suites: OpenOffice.org, Lotus Symphony, EasyOffice Web Browser: Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Email: Evolution, Eudora Developer: Eclipse Graphics: The Gimp

7. More for the desktop Personal firewall: ZoneAlarm Anti-virus: AVG Anti-Virus Anti-spam: SpamPal Spyware: AdAware, Microsoft Defender

8. On the server File & Print: Samba (Various Linux distros) Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL Messaging: Sendmail, Qmail, OpenXchange, Zimbra, Scalix Collaboration: OpenGroupware, Wiki, Kolab (Kroupware), Dimdim,

9. Virtualization OpenSource XenSource -- Server VirtualBox -- Desktop Free MS HyperV VMWare ESXi Citrix Xen Server

10. High Performance HPC Apps Rocks Cinelerra Oscar Cloud Computing Enomalism Eucalyptus Nimbus

11. Security Firewalls: Iptables, Smoothwall, IPCop UTMs: Endian and Untangle Network Sniffers: Ethereal, Snort, Ettercap Network Scanning and auditing: Nmap, DumpSec Vulnerability Assessment: Nessus, SARA, Backtrack Anti-spam: spamassassin

12. Administration Network Management: Nagios (requires agents) OpenNMS (network discovery) Bandwidth Monitoring: MRTG, PRTG Network Testing: QCheck

13. Internet access & control Proxy servers: Squid, AnalogX Web Server: Apache, Tux Application Server: Tomcat, Jboss Monitoring: Weblizer

14. Where to get it from? Community sites Sourceforge.net:: 230,000 projects as of Feb 2009 Freshmeat.net General download sites Download.com tucows.com Vendor driven sites

15. How to choose? Meets your needs Something tried and tested Stable You have the in-house expertise to deploy it How does it compare to a similar commercial offering? User Rating and Number of downloads - Demo

16. Support options Local experts Web Sites/Mailing List Peer Group Authors Linux Companies Even some big companies

17. Free or commercial? There’s no single answer Use the right mix of both based on How they benefit your business Ultimately all support will have to be paid for in both cases

18. Is Linux for you? Popular at the server end since long The user interface has greatly improved Getting popular at desktops as well

19. Questions?

20. Thanks  Contact Me anindyar@cybermedia.co.in http://twitter.com/anindyar http://forums.pcquest.com