Best Open Source Alternatives To Enterprise Apps 348
PeekAB00 writes "With 2009 IT budgets getting chopped down John Perez came up with this list of 25 best alternatives to enterprise applications (e.g DimDim over Webex, SugarCRM instead of Seibel, Zenoss over HP OpenView). John's list is somewhat eclectic. I am curious to hear what other enterprise (let's be frank ... expensive) apps I can replace this year with open source ones. I am particularly interested in back-up and email archiving suggestions."
Which Enterprise? (Score:5, Funny)
NX-1
NCC1701
NCC1701a
NCC1701D
NCC1701E
OpenOffice works on Windows??? (Score:5, Funny)
I wish someone had told me that sooner.
I was led to believe I had to install Linux *first* before I could use OpenOffice. Now that makes me wonder what other free alternatives exist for common applications - like PowerPoint. Why waste money buying expensive software when I can just use zero-cost alternatives?
Re:OpenOffice works on Windows??? (Score:4, Funny)
Don't you know that Linux runs on top of Windows [zdnet.com]? Someone mentioned it yesterday. It should be easy to install!
(ok... are you for real? OpenOffice HAS a Powerpoint replacement)
Re:OpenOffice works on Windows??? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Database Sofware (Score:5, Funny)
Other ways to cut costs (Score:1, Funny)
Lets take the example of an expensive e-mail archiving app. How are they billing you?
If it's per e-mail address, then pair employees and have them share the same e-mail address. Costs cut in half.
If it's per e-mail, then tell employees to always send 2 messages at a time, concatenated.
If it's per MB, then ask your employees to mail less.
If it's a flat rate for the whole company, then pair employees with another company, and have them share the same e-mail address.
Re:Database Sofware (Score:2, Funny)
I'd also argue for FreeBSD over Linux.
Everyone likes a good FAPP stack.
Re:Lame (Score:3, Funny)
Re:SugarCRM is old hat. (Score:3, Funny)
http://demo.opengoo.org/en_us/index.php [opengoo.org]
Not Found /en_us/index.php was not found on this server.
The requested URL
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.10 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.10 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at demo.opengoo.org Port 80
Re:OpenOffice works on Windows??? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Which Enterprise? (Score:5, Funny)
That would be NCC 1701. No bloody A, B, C, or D. Or even E.
Re:OpenOffice works on Windows??? (Score:5, Funny)
a critical application for our enterprise (Score:5, Funny)
I am hoping someone can suggest a replacement for "Hello World" which, according to our engineers, is a critical application for our enterprise.
Sincerely,
PHB
Actaully... (Score:3, Funny)
A LAPP stack sounds kind of cool... Folks could call themselves LAPP-landers.
Of course, like LAMP as an acronym, it still suffers from the potential disagreement about what the last P stands for (Perl, PHP, Python, ...) (note preceding list is
in alphabetical order and implies no stated preference :-))
Re:Can't take recommendations seriously (Score:2, Funny)
I don't even need to say which is the better alternative because everyone knows what it is.
MS Access?
Re:Database Sofware (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's astroturf. (Score:4, Funny)
This guy got him beat:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1PPJ35WY17216 [amazon.com]
FAPP (Score:2, Funny)
FreeBSD, Apache, Perl, Postgresql
Best decision I ever made.