There are a large number of project management tools designed to support Agile methodologies such as Scrum and eXtreme Programming (XP), including several open source options. This article compares the most compelling open source options in terms of feature set, usability, viability, and suitability for large projects and products.
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Comparing Open Source Agile Project Management Tools
By Brad Swanson • Sep 21st, 2009 • Category: Comparisons
Survey of Open Source Modeling Tools for Software Development
By Grant Smith • Feb 5th, 2009 • Category: ComparisonsPoor planning is one of the top reasons why software projects are delivered late, over budget, or not at all, so it’s important to get organized before you start coding. In this article we survey some of the open source modeling tools available to help you streamline the development planning process.
Open Source Database Applications Comparison Matrix
By Kimberly McClintock • Jan 7th, 2009 • Category: ComparisonsUse this comparison matrix to learn about the differences between – and relative benefits of – the popular open source databases MySQL, PostgreSQL, Derby and H2 Database Engine (H2DB).
A Comparison of Enterprise Mail Servers – Open Source and Otherwise
By Dru Lavigne • Dec 23rd, 2008 • Category: ComparisonsWhile open source mail servers have always dominated the mail transfer market, enterprises expect much more than just simple mail transfer from their mail servers. How do you pick the right enterprise mail server for your business?
Comparing Open Source Reporting Tools for Use in the Enterprise
By Rod Cope • Oct 9th, 2008 • Category: ComparisonsThere are many open source reporting tools readily available for companies to deploy to their business users today. Most of them, however, do not provide hard core corporate features such as multiple user support, integration with existing security mechanisms, ad hoc visual reporting tools, scheduling facilities, and the like. This comparison will briefly examine some [...]
Web Framework Project Comparison Matrix
By Kimberly McClintock • Oct 4th, 2008 • Category: ComparisonsWe’ve developed this comparison matrix to help you learn about the differences between – and relative benefits of – the most popular open source Web frameworks: Shale, Struts, Wicket, WebWork, Rails, JBossSeam, MyFaces and Spring. Although Rails is not a Java project, we included it given its popularity. To help you make a decision about which Web Framework to use, we went to the experts — members of the OpenLogic Expert Community who are committers and expert users of the projects — and asked them to answer a bunch of questions about each project.
Comparing Open Source Licenses
By Dave McLoughlin • Oct 1st, 2008 • Category: Comparisons, Open Source LicensingThe OpenLogic Certified Library includes hundreds of projects and over 225 different licenses, most of which are based — at least loosely — on one of the 18 most commonly used license types. We’ve laid out for you in table form a detailed comparison of the common features of these licenses.
Open Source Application Server Comparison Matrix
By Kimberly McClintock • Sep 29th, 2008 • Category: ComparisonsThe following tables represent research completed in the fall of 2007 by OpenLogic. We went to the experts — members of the OpenLogic Expert Community who are committers and expert users of the projects — and asked them to answer a set of questions. Members of Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty and GlassFish responded. Use the resulting information as a tool to plan your projects.
