Open Source Daily Journal

More and more businesses are considering the benefits in terms of cost in re-deploying their previously closed programs onto open systems that can be quite prone to hacking. Security has been on the agenda and is one of the major focus of developers and technology experts who have been promoting the new and improved open-system designs. Securing a very large distributed system that uses open technology is a very large task but developers are getting there, finally agreeing on how best to approach the security of the many projects being deployed or are already in place. Continue Reading »

The methods at which businesses and communities are trying to reach out and garner members vary depending on the technology they are promoting. Imagine FireFox that has been a long time in the making, a product of the Mozilla Foundation that came up with a web browser that was not only faster but much better than the long standing leader of the pack, Internet Explorer. They considered the changing web and how people are using the web, designed a framework, published the designs and asked for comments, suggestions and just about anything you might want to say to improve on the proposed browser. Get back down and incorporate the best suggestions in terms of improvement and release the browser into the wild that is the internet, viola, success in the making. Continue Reading »

Ubuntu has long been in the background of more prominent open-source projects that has been silently creeping, making a name for itself. It is after all based on Linux that itself is based from of course Unix, one of the oldest languages that has ruled the realm of mini to mainframe computers in the infancy of the internet. One of the best benefits of Linux and other derivatives or flavors as they are called is the ability to strip unwanted parts of the base operating system leaving only the needed ones intact. This allows an old Pentium computer to become and FTP server making for a cheap and deployable form of technology in an old package. Continue Reading »

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Content management system (CMS) is not new. Yet, not many business owners are aware of how the technology can help to bring their business to the next level.

A website owner greatly relies on their web designers to manage their website, which is time consuming and costly.
Here are some various CMS solutions that may be suitable for you:

1) Joomla – One of the most popular and commonly used CMS today, the software is released under GNU General public license, so anybody can use the software and make modifications to give for their own use.

2) Drupal – Drupal is a solid, high quality platform that is claimed to be user friendly and well liked by web developers. Only 1 installation is needed for multi sites.

3) CMS made simple – A much simpler key that is quick to learn and easy to use. This software is very good for small websites with few pages. Business owners that are new to the online world will find this software fitting.

Adopters and investors are questioning the economic viability of the open source model. Open source solutions are now becoming a choice of large projects and even by conservative businesses. They are now concerned with this question when a few years back this would not have even reached the discussion table. Now more than ever before, even the conservative IT shops are starting to seriously look at when and where open source softwares would make sense to them.

There are some issues that argue that OSS is not long term viable because of the lack of a viable economic model. Successful and expanding implementations of OSS in the mainstream IT world continue to disprove this assumption. Open source does not have a unique business model or a singular model for that matter. The advantage of OSS model is that it can be leveraged within a wide array of profit, non-profit, indirect and direct revenue business model strategies.

Source: eosj.com