Stormy Peters is director or product management at OpenLogic, Inc. She was a founding member of Hewlett Packard's Linux Division. Stormy is a frequent keynote speaker on business aspects of open source software at national and international conferences.
Developers in an enterprise need to use the best tools for the job.
Increasingly they have found that Open Source projects such as Apache, MySQL,
Tomcat, Eclipse, and others are ready for prime time. However, the stack is
rarely composed entirely of Open Source. These projects are typically used in
conjunction with industry standard, non-Open Source tools such as Oracle,
WebLogic, and ClearCase.
Integrating these tools to create a cohesive development environment in a
mixed Windows and Linux infrastructure is critical, but is often challenging
and time consuming. Operating system vendors like Red Hat and Novell include
some applications for common applications like e-mail and Web but not others
like the aforementioned servers. The following are considerations that you
may have when you're deploying applications on Open Source.
Identifying Which Software Is Good
Do y... (more)
Stormy Peters is director or product management at OpenLogic, Inc. She was a founding member of Hewlett Packard's Linux Division. Stormy is a frequent keynote speaker on business aspects of open source software at national and international conferences.
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