Entries Related to ‘Comparison’
Community Linux distros have become increasingly popular within the enterprise as organizations look to cut costs without compromising on functionality and reliability, but it can be tough to determine which distributions are best suited to different uses and how to approach migrations. This article will help you set criteria, ask the right questions, and narrow your options so you can make an informed decision.
There’s a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right one for any given circumstance can be quite a challenge. This article outlines the key factors you need to consider in order to pick the best operating system for your needs and experience level.
There are many 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.
In the first of our two-part series, Open Source Alternatives for the Office, we examined open source applications that can be used to replace some of the most popular Office 2007 products. In this article, we’ll take a look at open source alternatives to additional Microsoft products commonly used in the office—Publisher, Groove, Visio, and Project.
Microsoft Office has been one of the most popular (and profitable) business software suites for many years, but Office is no longer the only game in town when it comes to basic business applications. In this article we’ll gauge how OpenOffice 3.0, Evolution, and GnuCash stack up to Microsoft Office 2007.
Use 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).
While 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?
There 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 [...]
We’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.
The 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.