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Killer open source monitoring tools

In the real estate world, the mantra is location, location, location. In the network and server administration world, the mantra is visibility, visibility, visibility. If you don't know what your network and servers are doing at every second of the day, you're flying blind. Sooner or later, you're going to meet with disaster.

By Paul Venezia | 25 November, 2008 09:32

Tags: open source

Managing in mixed environments

A look at some of the tools that can help you manage mixed Linux/Windows environments

By John Fontana | 28 October, 2008 10:34

Tags: Linux, Windows Vista

The challenge of managing mixed virtualized Linux, Windows networks

The sprawl of management consoles, the proliferation of data they provide and the rising use of virtualization are adding challenges to corporations looking to more effectively manage mixed Linux, Windows and cloud environments.

By John Fontana | 28 October, 2008 08:14

Tags: Linux, novell, Red Hat, virtualisation, Windows Vista

LinuxWorld's Garage

From Lego robots to hammers and nails, Linux gets embedded

20 great Windows open source projects you should get to know

No one loves to pay crazy per-user licensing fees, not to mention 15- 22 per cent annual support residuals. (And no one loves the endless, mind-numbing meetings with non-technical financial folks trying to pry budget for these tools from their clenched fists.) So today we're going to discuss tools that are free. However, we are not naming them to this list of "great" tools simply because they cost nothing. These are some of the best lesser-known tools out there.

Open source on the wire

Once upon a time, using open-source servers and applications for business was frowned upon in many circles. Today, you'd be hard pressed to find any sizeable infrastructure that doesn't leverage open-source code in some form or another, be it a few MySQL databases, Apache on the Web servers, or a pile of Perl, PHP, Ruby, or Python applications holding things together.