Eyeing an Opening for Open-Source
I don't care much for Monday morning meetings. Starting a week with a meeting always seems like too sharp a transition from the weekend. Eyelids tend to droop, including mine. But on one recent Monday, I snapped to attention when my boss, the IT chief for our agency, said that he had informed the agency's administrator that we would be going the open-source route on a number of fronts to increase efficiency, productivity and cost savings.
When I had suggested that idea to him six months earlier, he had been worried about integrating open-source applications into a purely Microsoft infrastructure. I had suggested using open-source software for applications that don't require integration but rather only compatibility with standards such as SNMP, TCP/IP, LDAP, Java, HTTP and HTML, but I was pretty sure my proposal had fallen on deaf ears. I was wrong.
My boss had taken note of my successful implementation of an intrusion-detection system based on open-source software (Linux, Snort, PHP, Apache and MySQL), but I wasn't aware that he had developed a workflow application that uses a MySQL database. Now that I know he's open to implementing more open-source-based security devices, we're on our way to finding alternatives to overpriced commercial software.
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