Why I started this blog......

Open-source software has become ubiquitous in the IT world, with wide-spread use in Fortune 500 corporations
as well as in universities, developing economies, governments, and student populations.
While many companies use open-source for the cost advantages, it offers a number of other benefits,
including:
• Early access to new technology
• Faster time to market
• Ease of deployment
• Freedom from vendor lock-in
• Greater security


Of course, it wasn’t too long ago that the only open-source software you’d find in the enterprise was the Linux operating system and a handful of tools. But today, it’s open-source everything: “Early success widened the focus,” says one Forrester report, “to include development tools, infrastructure components such as application servers and databases, and higher-level components such as portal servers and content management systems.”


The majority of open-source software distributions are free, easy to install, highly customizable, and easily integrated with the hardware and software most companies have now. Plus, they include many of the bells and whistles found on proprietary software. Because open-source benefits from a vast community of dynamic, creative developers, the software is often cleaner and more lightweight than its proprietary cousins. And open-source service and support can cost enterprises far less than contracts with proprietary vendors.
(Content courtesy-www.sun.com)


Hence with this blog,I want to introduce and discuss about the latest opensource softwares,write their reviews,and to provide their download links thereby spreading the popularity of OpenSource World.I am also discussing about the application of opensource in networking and system administration in this blog.

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Yours
Dinesh.D.M
(Blog Admin)