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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. 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....