From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 2 19:00:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614B2106567D for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:00:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from madunix@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f163.google.com (mail-fx0-f163.google.com [209.85.220.163]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E601A8FC1B for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:00:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from madunix@gmail.com) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so2025090fxm.43 for ; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:00:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=GvghJiGnyg0EnuX4mGLYHAW4hwTNkCDmVy/mOL+FDRY=; b=WPP5pvRrsyn+CsfSjeV6P35OI8xCWnZpNJ6YvaFI3QGIU6u7hhjCnhktO8T4Tnmork 5B+MF3PtiL0q8tTKzblE68ksCaEjuoHMCuIiIqzWBCBEwrANhB3L4zaKBPpuO0hQcRra eK3PRQL5A0Nkf15RZjNoi8jUKiQMpYa/c6bpk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Fl+MBprvrBJxnHjBO/rCmsYg5rG71rFJgM1PrJthryQ7P4e4/gYL03KNtFiFFdii2U 3lQ/gD+vezVRLOdpHqQDoxOV+kWmmdXGpVKe7KfDdvmVjH7JssvsOksY4LF0Qz18OvdF 6VByRjbhIm6u+vVdV63VDhNTgRCdEp4YJhVCw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.100.11 with SMTP id w11mr60839bkn.32.1243969232301; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:00:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A2550C1.6060702@ibctech.ca> References: <4d3f56c90906020812t40c5fcbv178bcd7f702356f@mail.gmail.com> <4A2550C1.6060702@ibctech.ca> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:00:32 +0300 Message-ID: <4d3f56c90906021200g6e5fd4eay77e30d722f731633@mail.gmail.com> From: madunix To: Steve Bertrand Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open_Source X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:00:34 -0000 in my case i have the following: Multiple linux/bsd distributions: (RHEL, SuSE, FreeBSD + commercial UNIX as AIX) Monitoring Application:(Cacti, Nagios, MRTG) Backup utility:(rsync, tar, mondo) Content Management system:(Jommla, Durpal) Virtualization:(Wine) Web Server:(Apache) Web filtering:(Squid, dansgaurdian + blacklist) Mail System:(Qmail, Postfix, sendmail) DB:(MySQL) Scripting:(Shell/bash,Perl,PHP) Servers: IBM SystemX and SystemP, DELL SAN storage: EMC, IBM DS8000 madunix On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: > madunix wrote: >> Dear Experts, >> >> I want to know out of your experience people the following, > >> 1- How open source served your businesses =C2=A0requirements? > > Our business would likely not exist if it weren't for Open Source > (and/or free) software. Other than our Windows workstations, a few > Windows servers, Cisco IOS and a few other specifics here-and-there, we > are all open source. > > Everything is FreeBSD. > >> 2- What kind of application that running on Open Source? > > Pretty much everything: > > - routers (Quagga BGP, OSPF etc) > - RADIUS > - web servers > - email servers > - database servers > - backup (AMANDA) > - infrastructure config management (RANCID) > - performance graphing (MRTG) > - performance testing (iperf etc) > - troubleshooting (tcpdump, wireshark etc) > - traffic engineering (ipfw etc) > - communications (firefox, thunderbird) > - and hundreds more > >> 3- General experience with Open Source technology? > > Very, very good. I find though that the more you give, the more you get o= ut. > > In our environment, things are very dynamic, and very custom. We can > change software live-time to make it do what we need it to do. Being > able to look into the source code makes it very easy to write custom > applications that 'hook in' to existing ones. > > Steve >