UID:
almahu_9948025752702882
Umfang:
1 online resource (389 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st edition
ISBN:
1-281-02021-4
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9786611020217
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0-08-049200-2
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1-4175-4440-6
Serie:
Software development
Inhalt:
In 2004/5, over half of IT professionals will be looking at open source, most for the first time. This book provides key tools for System administrators, Network Administrators, IT project managers, and consultants who must evaluate and deploy open source software. This book details open source successes so far, explains which scenarios are the most realistic opportunities now, then gives the details needed to select these solutions, adopt the best tools and practices, introduce them to an organization, implement and manage them. The IT professional can use this book to review opportun
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Open Source Software: Implementation and Management; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Intended Audience for This Book; How This Book Is Structured; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Open Source Software: Definitions and History; 1.1 Definition of Terms; 1.2 A Brief History of Software; 1.3 Summary; Chapter 2. Where Open Source Is Successful; 2.1 Analytical Framework; 2.2 Open Source Is in Widespread Successful Use; 2.3 Examples of Open Source Systems; 2.4 Summary; Chapter 3. Open Source: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; 3.1 What Is Good about Open Source
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3.2 Open Source Is Not Enough by Itself3.3 How Choosing Open Source Is More Difficult for You; 3.4 What Others Say about Open Source; 3.5 Summary; Chapter 4. Five Immediate Open Source Opportunities; 4.1 Create an Open Source Lab; 4.2 Migrate Infrastructure to Samba and OpenLDAP; 4.3 Build Some LAMP Applications; 4.4 Bring New Desktop Systems to the Underserved; 4.5 Migrate Applications and Databases to Open Source; 4.6 Summary; Chapter 5. Five More Open Source Opportunities; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Directory Services; 5.3 Email; 5.4 Groupware and Collaboration; 5.5 Complex Web Publishing
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5.6 Manage User Desktops5.7 Other Possibilities; 5.8 Summary; Chapter 6. Operating Systems; 6.1 Contents of the Operating System; 6.2 Linux Distribution Vendors; 6.3 Enterprise Distribution Vendors; 6.4 Community-Supported Distribution Vendors; 6.5 International Alternatives; 6.6 Summary; Chapter 7. Open Source Server Applications; 7.1 Infrastructure Services; 7.2 Web Servers; 7.3 Database Servers; 7.4 Mail Servers; 7.5 Systems Management; 7.6 Summary; Chapter 8. Open Source Desktop Applications; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Graphical Desktops; 8.3 Web Browsers; 8.4 The Office Suite
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8.5 Mail and Calendar Clients8.6 Personal Software; 8.7 Summary; Chapter 9. How Open Source Software Is Developed; 9.1 Methodology; 9.2 Languages Used to Develop Open Source Products; 9.3 Cross-Platform Code; 9.4 Summary; Chapter 10. Managing System Implementation; 10.1 Implementation Roles; 10.2 Open Source Impact on Team Issues; 10.3 Implementation Process; 10.4 Implementation Principles; 10.5 Key Documents; 10.6 Migration; 10.7 Interacting with the Open Source Community; 10.8 Support; 10.9 Summary; Chapter 11. Application Architecture; 11.1 Types of Systems; 11.2 Tiered Design
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11.3 Managing Performance and Scalability11.4 Interoperability; 11.5 Development Platform Choices; 11.6 Summary; Chapter 12. The Cost of Open Source Systems; 12.1 Total Cost of Ownership; 12.2 Types of Costs; 12.3 Scenarios; 12.4 Summary; Chapter 13. Licensing; 13.2 Licenses in Use; 13.3 Mixing Open and Closed Code; 13.4 Dual Licensing; 13.5 Other Intellectual Property Issues; 13.6 Summary; 13.1 Types of Licenses; A Resources; A.1 Managing an Open Source Lab; A.2 Installing an Evaluation Linux System; A.3 Next Steps; A.4 Top Ten Reasons to Use Open Source Software; A.5 Web Links
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B The Open Source Definition
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-55558-320-2
Sprache:
Englisch
