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Best Open Source Alternatives To Enterprise Apps

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-do-you-think dept.

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."

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  1. NOT all open source by lophophore · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Uhhh, a lot of the solutions mentioned in TFA are not open source, but they are cheaper than their more expensive competition. i.e. Basecamp, dimdim, etc. are not open source..

    OTOH, SugarCRM, asterisk, open office are open source, free in both senses.

    Anyway, an interesting list...

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  2. Re:Can't take recommendations seriously by jlarocco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Interesting. Tell that to Flickr, Facebook, Wikipedia, Google, Nokia and YouTube. Or, how about Slashdot and Digg - capable of bringing down moderately sized web sites with the click of a million mice?

    Yeah, but none of those are very important. If a transaction fails when you're updating your Facebook profile, nobody gives a shit. I mean look at what happened to Slashdot when it got 24 million posts.

    I would bet money that none of those companies use MySQL for their paycheck processing software.

    I don't dislike MySQL, but I wouldn't consider it an "enterprise RDBMS".

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