[Cialug] Iowa Training Days (fwd)

[Jim Asbille]

John.Lengeling@radisys.com wrote:

>
> Dan is a friend of mine and he talked me into being a presenter at the 
> Iowa Training Days.  Now I need to figure out what to talk about.  He 
> thought there would be interest in a talk on open source software.
>
> Tentatively I was thinking about a case study on how RadiSys uses 
> various open source software  with in the engineering department to 
> solve various business needs.  Any one else have better 
> ideas/suggestions which you might find interesting?
>
> Here is some of the stuff we use:
>
> Ht/Dig - Search Engine for Legacy Defect Tracking Data
> Perl/CPAN - Perl based automated Testing Harness.
> Apache/PHP - Engineering Web server
> MySQL -
> CMS -  Internal websites, portals, etc.
> MediaWiki - Internal Documentation of Engineering Work Procedures,
> Cygwin/X11 - UNIX/X11 integration with Windows
> Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD - Software compile servers, shared development 
> servers
> Ethereal - Low cost network packet sniffers
> Nagios - System monitoring and alerting
> NetSNMP -
> openssh - X11 forwarding
>
> johnl 

I think talking about how Open Source has solved your real world 
situations is excellent.  That seems to be a big fear for managers in 
using open source, what will happen in the real world? 

-- 
Jim Asbille, MSM

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