Having worked in the I.T. field for quite some time I have seen my fair share of hardware and software products that have enabled my clients to perform their daily business more easily and with greater efficiency. I have installed SonicWall appliances, Windows servers ranging from NT, 2000, 2003 and even the latest 2008, setup WANs and LANs ,and I have had good ideas for all kinds of different business solutions. It wasn’t until recently that I realized just how much more one could do with open source.
Lets compare two major products in the networking category: the SonicWall and the Untangle application. They both act as routers for a network to provide internet but they also perform complex functions to protect the network.
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I’ll admit, there was a time when I would laugh at the thought of open source programs doing things better than an established software program. It just seemed too good to be true that, a freely-available program with no license fees, could perform equal or better functions than it’s paid counterpart. For the longest time we have been subjected to the Microsoft phenomenon and it’s taking us a while to snap out of it. Microsoft began their business by arm wrestling investors and future clients alike to allow Windows to become the dominant OS (operating system) for personal and business computing. For too long consumers have been dealing with outrageously high prices on Microsoft products ranging from Windows to Office products and other “high-end” business tools. Maybe the developers that began some of the most notorious open source projects shared my view of “free is better” because it wasn’t long until a silent r Read more…
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