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 Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:06 pm
I'm tired of hearing people say that open source does not belong in workforce or no one uses open source software in the real world when in fact I know that you can find open source software in the real world. So because of this I have decided to start this topic on open source in the real world, if you read an article or you personally know of a place where open source is used (ether if it is a single program or a OS, or anything between the two).
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:07 pm
Quote: Lead artist from Elephants Dream speaks about what it is like to make your own open movie using open source tools and the power of the community. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1111810628;pp;1;fp;2;fpid;4
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:08 pm
Quote: Opus Healthcare provides Web-based software solutions for doctors, nurses, therapists, and healthcare support staff. Recently, Opus moved from Unix on Hewlett-Packard hardware to a mixture of different Linux distributions on Intel. Opus CEO and co-founder Tim Rhoads says it has been a "bottom-up" transition, driven by the company's development staff. Opus not only develops applications for patient care records and reporting, it also designs workflow processes and consults customers on hardware requirements. The migration to open source began in 2000, when the company decided it would move to Web-based SAAS applications, replacing Opus' standalone products. "We had a fatigue factor from using the commercial operating systems," Rhoads says. "We were limited in what we could offer as far as hardware solutions. Parallel to that, as we were developing our new solution with Web-based architecture, we were using open source development tools. Our developers already had a familiarity with Linux, and they pretty much brought the idea into the company of using Linux as the production operating system." Rhoads calls it a "bottom-up" decision. "Our developers began developing in Linux, and as time passed, it just became the obvious solution."
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:07 pm
While I haven't any links nor can I be specific, I will state that we use a number of open source products on the network I help maintain at work. It's a government network, and thus, I can't state too much about what's used or how, but yea, we use a fair bit of open source software on everything from servers to clients to firewalls to mail relays, etc...
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Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:17 am
I work for supreme court and I can say that we are moving in to using linux as a OS at one point for now we have Windows and everything else is mostly Open source so Mail, Browser, Writers and so on so I think that there is OpenSource around the world in high places biggrin he he
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:14 pm
@vendion:
I really liked the movie Elephant's Dream. Blender is quite powerful.
Every school I've been to uses Windows XP on their main computers, and Windows Server on their servers. All the schools I've been to have also had many server issues and malware issues to. I think the two are related. Schools should go the open source route. The school did just buy a whole lab full of Macs, but that was a waste of money (you have to sign up ahead of time to use them and only teachers can sign up, also the Macs were quite pricey ones x.x).
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:51 pm
Phaseburn isn't the only one using open-source software on a government network. An increasing number of European countries are mandating the use of ODF for government documents and some have even switched to Linux workstations.
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:52 pm
A fair bit of the US Gov't is going the same route.
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:43 pm
Slashdot sez "Business open source use up 26% in one year": Quote: CBR is reporting that open source use in the workplace is continuing to grow at an astonishing rate. Up 26% since last year, businesses are using 94 different open source tools to get the job done. Quote: "[OpenLogic's] breakdown of licenses for the top 25 packages found that Apache, not the GPL, is the most common license. 62% of the packages use Apache, 27% use some variant of GPL and 4% each use BSD, CPL, Eclipse, MPL and Perl licenses (since packages may be released under two or more licenses, percentages total to more than 100%).
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:02 pm
Quote: Metropolitan Bank Group is a large conglomerate in Illinois, comprising 10 banks and $3 billion in assets. As Metropolitan acquired more banking interests, IT Director Tom Johnson needed to find a way to reduce costs and increase efficiency in the face of the company's rapid growth. The solution was a migration from Windows to Linux.
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:28 pm
I am a PC technician for a local company and we use SUSE on our servers and Ubuntu on some of the desktops. We also install a package of open source software which includes VLC and Open Office, on all the computers we sell.
I also worked for Amazon for awhile and know that they used Red Hat Linux on there servers.
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:19 pm
There's a bizarre correlation I've seen between IT managers on Windows Server networks being irritable, and IT managers on Unix-based networks being friendly and humorous..... I've noticed it in classes for IT, as well.....
XD That aside.... I've unfortunately seen very little use of open-source anything in "real-world" applications. The only time that comes to mind was the network infrastructure at the vocational school I went to was centered around RedHat servers (And the two IT guys who joined in our petitions to use open-source software against our teacher's demands). I had also heard significant pressure from some groups in the county I'm from, due to the increasing poverty rates, and poor education, for open-source software like OpenOffice to make it into classrooms since licenses for a new version of MS Office don't seem to fit in a municipal budget that doesn't exist.
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:42 am
I managed to get the head of the IT department at my university to switch to Linux, and he loves it blaugh
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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:09 pm
suicune_dude There's a bizarre correlation I've seen between IT managers on Windows Server networks being irritable, and IT managers on Unix-based networks being friendly and humorous..... My dads friend introduced me to a Linux admin (Servers ect) I think I talked to him for hours and the server admin/ computer maintainer at my High school (89 students) runing all windows and Microsoft crap is very edgy I couldn't talk to her for 2 minuets
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:50 am
The school I intern at is preparing to switch to Linux, CentOS namely.
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