Stormy Peters

Developers in an enterprise need to use the best tools for the job. Increasingly they have found that Open Source projects such as Apache, MySQL, Tomcat, Eclipse, and others are ready for prime time. However, the stack is rarely composed entirely of Open Source. These projects are typically used in conjunction with industry standard, non-Open Source tools such as Oracle, WebLogic, and ClearCase. Integrating these tools to create a cohesive development environment in a mixed Windows and Linux infrastructure is critical, but is often challenging and time consuming. Operating system vendors like Red Hat and Novell include some applications for common applications like e-mail and Web but not others like the aforementioned servers. The following are considerations that you may have when you're deploying applications on Open Source. Identifying Which Software Is Good Do y... (more)