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New Free Open Source Enterprise Magazine

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the the-price-is-right dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new free Open Source Enterprise magazine was launched today. The publication was built entirely with Open Source tools, including the GIMP, Scribus and Open Office. It is distributed in PDF format, and focuses on Open Source Solutions related to Enterprise Data Networking. The first issue looks at some interesting stuff include MultiLayer Switching in Linux. A torrent is also available."

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  1. PDF the format for magazines now? by ylikone · · Score: 3, Informative

    tuxmagazine.com also provides free magazines in PDF format. I've read through all of them and must say they are very good. But I do miss being able to hold something in my hands while I lie back in bed. A laptop is too awkward for casual reading of PDFs.

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    Meh.
    1. Re:PDF the format for magazines now? by MP3Chuck · · Score: 3, Informative

      PDF is an open format.

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      Who doesn't like free music?
  2. Re:Is this really necessary? by georgewilliamherbert · · Score: 4, Informative
    Is the CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation suddenly going to replace his reliable expensive Solaris clusters running Oracle with a bunch of cheap Linux blades running MySQL just because he read it in an online "magazine"?
    In some cases, yes.

    In some cases, yes, despite it being more expensive in the end due to higher administration costs.

    Open source is happening; I am a pretty darn senior IT consultant by day, and large enterprises in the IT space are building stuff with it.

    Smart ones are also doing true life cycle cost estimates, and functional and reliability trade studies and analysis, and in some cases are chosing not to use open source or only use it for limited applications.

    But it's here, for real.

    I am not an open source zealout; I spent several years at a Sun VAR and am quite familiar with "commrecial" OSes, enterprise infrastructure and business applications, etc. I still have a good relationship with local Sun VARs and will recommend Sun/Solaris/Veritas/(pick your major brand storage)/Oracle etc when technically and financially and operationally appropriate. Which they still are for significant parts of the enterprise IT problems set.

    But Linux is clearly heeerrreeeee....

  3. Re:ftp site /.ed? by chronicon · · Score: 3, Informative
    Bittorrent is your friend...

    http://www.o3magazine.com/o3issue1.torrent

    Seriously... this is so the way to go to avoid getting /.'d...

  4. um... hello? by Run4yourlives · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm going to assume you're talking about pdf here. I'll also assure you that the format is indeed open