Open Source and the Magic LAMP

In the last year while working with the Enterprise Applications department, I set up the Infrastructure and Application environment architecture (with the Infrastructure Department), installed, configured, and supported the following FOSS (Free Open Source Software) apps.  Some were kept and some were canned.

In the next coming days (weeks, months?)  I hope to provide lessons learned from  business and technical perspective on why certain apps made the cut and certain ones didn’t in the company I worked for.

Content Management

• WordPress – dropped
• BBpress – dropped
• DotNetNuke – dropped
• Typo3 – dropped
• phpwebsite – dropped
• TWiki – kept
• Foswiki – kept

Web Traffic Stats

• Piwik – kept

Search Application

• Microsoft Search Server – big hit

Code Versioning / Bug Tracking

• Redmine – didn’t get to finish
• Trac – dropped
• SVN – kept

Business Process Management

• ProcessMaker – big huge hit
• SugerCRM – dropped
• JasperSoft – kept
• Pentaho – dropped