Open Source Solutions

Why use Vyatta? Simple, Innovation and Economics. Vyatta is bringing innovation and affordability to the networking industry by leveraging open source technologies and the performance increases of x86-based processors. Vyatta's open approach to routing and security has created customizable solutions that scale from the branch office to the service provider edge. U can use this community edition ISO cd to convert a any system in to router (Minimum 2 NIC req.). pls downlaod and enjoy. Download Link http://www.vyatta.com/downloads/sw_registration.php

Worry about cost and costomiztion. now both are in your hand. Enjoy the complete opensource CRM solution using Sugar CRM . SugarCRM is rethinking how technology can help companies manage customer relationships. Sugar, the market leading commercial open source CRM application, delivers a feature-rich set of business processes that enhance marketing effectiveness, drive sales performance, improve customer satisfaction and provide executive insight into business performance. Supported by deep collaboration and administration capabilities that adapt to how your company operates, Sugar is delighting customers of all sizes across a broad range of industries. Download Link http://www.sugarforge.org/frs/download.php/4912/sugarcrm-CE-5.2.0-windows-mssql-installer.exe  

OrangeHRM aims to be the world’s leading open source HRM solution for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) by providing a flexible and easy to use HRM system affordable for any company worldwide. The project was started during fall 2005 and the first beta release was made in January 2006. Today OrangeHRM has users worldwide enjoying a free, stable and highly usable HRM solution. The system is backed by professional support and services as well as a fast growing, receptive and knowledgeable worldwide open source community. By building and leveraging this community of users, developers and partners, the usability, scope and international adoption of OrangeHRM is continuously being improved. Download Links Windows  http://www.orangehrm.com/product-download.php?type=stable-zip Linux http://www.orangehrm.com/product-download.php?type=stable-gz Note: Remember to install WAMP for windows and LAMP for Linux before installing Orange HRM  

DansGuardian is an award winning Open Source web content filter which currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris. It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, PICS filtering and URL filtering. It does not purely filter based on a banned list of sites like lesser totally commercial filters. DansGuardian is designed to be completely flexible and allows you to tailor the filtering to your exact needs. It can be as draconian or as unobstructive as you want. The default settings are geared towards what a primary school might want but DansGuardian puts you in control of what you want to block. If you are running Microsoft Windows then this software is not for you; it is for running on servers. Of course you can run it on a server and filter Windows clients through it but it will not run on Windows itself. DansGuardian is a   true   web content filter. Your normal web filter such as Cyber Patrol, squidGuar

Every day challenge for network administrator is security threat.   How to fight against threats? Yes, firewall is the best solution to handle the threat up to certain level. But, we have to think twice for the investment in this critical global financial crisis scenario. So why don’t you try the Open source Firewall? Let me explain how to make your own firewall appliance.  Requirement PC - Nominal configuration with CD DRIVE . (NO hard drive req. but need at least 2 NIC cards) (With Boot from USB Option) USB Pen Drive (2 GB) Empty CD – 1 No. Any system with internet connectivity and CD writer  Now your factory is ready to create your own Firewall appliance.  Download Location http://pfsense.basis06.com/download/downloads/pfSense-1.2.2-LiveCD-Installer.iso   Download the CD image from the above location Write the image in a fresh CD. (It is self Bootable Live CD) Insert this CD in to the Hard disk less PC (Make sure to connect th

Create your own website with the open source content management solution. Joomla! It is very simple to implement. Here are the steps to install Joomla! in windows XP.  To install Joomla you need to install WAMP. WAMP contains Apache web server, Mysql database and PHP scripting language like HTML which is essential to run Joomla.  Download your WAMP Here :   http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php Download your Joomla! here:  http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/9294/34966/Joomla_1.5.9-Stable-Full_Package.zip   Installing in windows XP  Step1:   Install WAMP by double clicking wampserver2.0f.exe  Step 2: Then extract the downloaded Joomla_1.5.9-Stable-full_Package.zip to the folder                  c:\wamp\www  Step 3: Rename the extracted folder as you wish (Site name) eg: C:\wamp\www\abchotel  Step 4: Go to browser:    type in the address bar : http://localhost/abchotel   Step 5: Please follow the onscreen instruction to complete.  ( Note: pls do not

Open source solutions are relay cool to use against paid ones. As a IT manager i'm successfully running my company's total infrastructure using open source technologies. Almost for all business needs there is an open source technology solutions. It is better then a proprietary software because these software are from multiple brain regardless of geographical limits. But currently the major proprietary vendor claims that "opens source is a bleeding end technology" and "there is no proper support". But I can say it is not bleeding edge in other way the software is ever growing. and you all know that lot of forums give open source technology supports. Even you get faster response then the paid ones. in forthcoming posts u can find lots of open source implementation stuff. so i ask you all to make this blog successful. Thank you.