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MySQL isn’t the only mature and feature-rich open source database; rival PostgreSQL can be an equally good choice. And if you know how to manage MySQL, you can learn how to handle PostgreSQL fairly quickly.

Bugs in software are as difficult to avoid as death and taxes, which makes keeping track of known bugs an important task for quality-conscious developers. With many feature-rich open source bug-tracking programs available, choosing a suitable application can be a daunting task. The best bug tracking solution for your organization or project depends upon your specific needs and personal preference. Whether you’re new to bug tracking applications or a pro, small organization or large, you should find what you’re looking for in one of these open source bug tracker applications.

In this post, we attempt to define and score key criteria that should be used to measure and assess how well a particular Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering meets the standard of “open”. We examined five PaaS platforms: Cloud Foundry (from VMWare), DotCloud, Force.com, Google App Engine and OpenShift (from RedHat). We scored each against five criteria for openness: choice of infrastructure, choice of platform, portability, choice of support and open source licensing.

Congratulations – you’ve just taken charge of a large, multifaceted project incorporating many resources over a long period of time. What now? Without project management software you might quickly lose focus. Here’s a survey of several useful open source project management applications suitable for collaborative enterprise use that stand up well against the market share leader, the proprietary Microsoft Project.

Nowadays, few enterprise websites run without PHP, the dynamic scripting language that serves as the “P” in the LAMP stack. Coding PHP applications is relatively easy thanks to the abundance of high-quality PHP frameworks available. Here’s a high-level overview of several of these open source frameworks, noting their scalability, maturity, licenses, and commercial support. While they may differ in many ways, they have one thing in common: they cost nothing to try and to use.

With the release of a new version of LibreOffice this month, it’s a good time to look at the two major open source office suites, LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org, to see what advantages each offers, and which is a better bet for end users. Both products are suites of office applications, comprising word process, spreadsheet, presentation graphics, database, drawing, and math tools. Both also spring from the same code base.

Do you have problems serving more than two pages per second on your WordPress or Drupal blog? Do the sites of your competitors serve pages faster than yours? Their secret weapon may be a different web server and PHP combo than Apache and mod_php. But don’t worry – you can turn to one of these alternative solutions too, and improve your web server throughput without upgrading your hardware resources.

When you’re choosing a database, you’re making a long-term decision, because changing your mind later is difficult and expensive. You want to get it right the first time. Two popular open source databases, MySQL and PostgreSQL, are often the final two candidates when admins are preparing a new rollout. This high-level overview of these two open source powerhouses should help you choose which is more appropriate for your needs.

The role of application servers has grown significantly in IT architecture over the past few years as the cloud becomes the new frontier for application development–a frontier that offers more opportunity and challenges than the Web ever did. And while the Web space is not over and done, the client-server model has become very blurred. If clients are indeed everywhere–and there’s no reason to think they aren’t–then the place where the applications run suddenly becomes very un-localized. Application servers manage it all, but as the power division between client and server becomes ever more diffuse, the complexity of management becomes greater.

Open source application development frameworks have increased in both popularity and number over the past decade. Today, developers can choose from a wide range of frameworks, each of which offers a unique combination of features, limitations, and benefits. But choosing the right framework can be a challenge. This article offers advice on how to approach the evaluation process and pick the framework that best meets your needs.