Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:00:32 +0300 From: madunix <madunix@gmail.com> To: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open_Source Message-ID: <4d3f56c90906021200g6e5fd4eay77e30d722f731633@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A2550C1.6060702@ibctech.ca> References: <4d3f56c90906020812t40c5fcbv178bcd7f702356f@mail.gmail.com> <4A2550C1.6060702@ibctech.ca>
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in my case i have the following: Multiple linux/bsd distributions: (RHEL, SuSE, FreeBSD + commercial UNIX as AIX) Monitoring Application:(Cacti, Nagios, MRTG) Backup utility:(rsync, tar, mondo) Content Management system:(Jommla, Durpal) Virtualization:(Wine) Web Server:(Apache) Web filtering:(Squid, dansgaurdian + blacklist) Mail System:(Qmail, Postfix, sendmail) DB:(MySQL) Scripting:(Shell/bash,Perl,PHP) Servers: IBM SystemX and SystemP, DELL SAN storage: EMC, IBM DS8000 madunix On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> wrote: > madunix wrote: >> Dear Experts, >> >> I want to know out of your experience people the following, > >> 1- How open source served your businesses =C2=A0requirements? > > Our business would likely not exist if it weren't for Open Source > (and/or free) software. Other than our Windows workstations, a few > Windows servers, Cisco IOS and a few other specifics here-and-there, we > are all open source. > > Everything is FreeBSD. > >> 2- What kind of application that running on Open Source? > > Pretty much everything: > > - routers (Quagga BGP, OSPF etc) > - RADIUS > - web servers > - email servers > - database servers > - backup (AMANDA) > - infrastructure config management (RANCID) > - performance graphing (MRTG) > - performance testing (iperf etc) > - troubleshooting (tcpdump, wireshark etc) > - traffic engineering (ipfw etc) > - communications (firefox, thunderbird) > - and hundreds more > >> 3- General experience with Open Source technology? > > Very, very good. I find though that the more you give, the more you get o= ut. > > In our environment, things are very dynamic, and very custom. We can > change software live-time to make it do what we need it to do. Being > able to look into the source code makes it very easy to write custom > applications that 'hook in' to existing ones. > > Steve >
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