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Mail - GroupWare

    Open Source Solution
  • More Groupware is a open source web based groupware application with features like webmail, full featured calendar, todo list management, project management, news and supports multiple languages

  • Simple Groupware is an open source enterprise application offering email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, synchronization with Outlook and cell phones, full-text search and many more. Simple Groupware combines standards like RSS, iCalendar, vCard, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CIFS, CSV, WebDAV, LDAP and SyncML under one platformm making this application a very strong contender to replace windows exchange server.features. Simple Groupware can be installed on Windows, MACOS and Linux operating systems.

  • Zimbra Integrated email, calendar, documents, voip server with an AJAX based client. Server is compatible with Microsoft Outlook, Apple and Linux Desktops. This open source software application even offers "Over the Air" sync to mobile devices. View demo

  • Conflux Lite is an open-source groupware package distributed under the GNU GPL licence. Although the Lite version offers less functionality then Professional, it still includes all the core functionality, which should meet the needs of small companies. In case the client's needs increase and exceed those offered by Lite, the Conflux Lite server can easily and quickly be reconfigured into the Professional version, which offers extended functionality. The data already entered in the system will be all transferred to the new version.

  • E-groupware is an open source enterprise ready groupware application. It enables you to manage contacts, appointments, notes, todos and so on. E-groupware comes with a native web-interface which allow to access your data from any platform from any location

  • Group-office is an open-source groupware application that includes email, calendar, task, notes

  • Hipergate is an open source web based application suite. Hipergate is a web based applications suite consisting of intranet groupware, sales force automation, project management, content management, corporate library, ebusiness shopping cart

  • Opengroupware the leading open source groupware server to integrate with the leading open source office suite products and all the leading groupware clients running across all major platforms, and to provide access to all functionality and data through open XML-based interfaces and APIs. Application that are built in contact management, group calendar, resources planner, task management, e-mail client, projects and documents, news, preferences, usermanager and palm sync.

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Network Perimeter Security

    Open Source Solution
  • ComixWall is developed on OpenBSD and ports/packages, which are licensed under BSD, GPL, or a similar open source license. ComixWall is, to my knowledge, the first fully open source ISG running on OpenBSD. ComixWall is freely available for all, and it already has most of the advanced features of many commercial and closed-source (some half open source) ISG's. .

  • IPCop The bad packets stop here, a linux based (Open Source) firewall with a lots of addons that make this firewall a very robust Internet Secrity Gateway.

  • Monowall is an open source project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software). M0n0wall is based on a bare-bones version of FreeBSD, along with a web server, PHP and a few other utilities. The entire system configuration is stored in one single XML text file to keep things transparent. M0n0wall is probably the first UNIX system that has its boot-time configuration done with PHP, rather than the usual shell scripts, and that has the entire system configuration stored in XML format.

  • Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for Linux. It supports kernels 2.0, 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6, and runs on many different platforms, including x86, x86_64, ia64, MIPS and ARM. Openswan is a code fork of the FreeSWAAN project started by a few developers.

  • PFSENSE Open Source network firewall based on PF and freebsd with integrated applications.

  • Untangle The best open source projects, integrated and made easier for spam blocking, web filtering, remote access and more. Commercial Grade open source alternative to SonicWall and Watchguard.

Commercial Alternatives

Network Access Control

    Open Source Solution
  • Packetfence is an open-source network access control (NAC) system. Deployed in academic networks around the world, PacketFence is reliable, extremely configurable, and built upon unmodified open-source code (Fedora, LAMP, Perl, and Snort).

  • Freenac is an OpenSource solution for LAN access control and dynamic Vlan management

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File Management
Implementing a repository where users can store and share files and applications can be done using samba software. Integrating Samba with OpenLDAP will create an identity management system which samba can use to authenticate each user before providing access.

    Open Source Solution
  • SAMBA Open Source application that micmics windows based file system can co-exist with existing wi ndows platform therefore reducing your license count or can be used on it's own.

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Backup

    Open Source Solution
  • NasBackup is an open source alternative backup solution. It is a high-performance, en terprise-grade system for backing up MS Windows desktop PCs, laptops and servers to network disks. NasBackup is a highly configurable solution and easy to install and maintain.

  • Amanda Amanda is the most popular open source alternative backup and recovery software in the world. A manda protects more than half a million of servers and desktops running various versions of Linux, UNIX, BSD, Mac OS-X and Microsoft Windows operating systems worldwide
    • Amanada CDRW-Taper is a drop-in replacement for the taper component of the Amanda backup system. CDRW-Taper makes it possible to dump backups to CD-RW, DVD+RW or DVD-RW instead of tape.
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  • BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and WinXX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain. Given the ever decreasing cost of disks and raid systems, it is now practical and cost effective to backup a large number of machines onto a server's local disk or network storage. This is what BackupPC does. For some sites, this might be the complete backup solution. For other sites, additional permanent archives could be created by periodically backing up the server to tape. A variety of Open Source systems are available for doing backup to tape.
    BackupPC is written in Perl and extracts backup data via SMB using Samba, tar over ssh/rsh/nfs, or rsync


  • CDBKUP is a professional grade open source software for backing up filesystems onto CD-Rs or CD-RWs located within a tarballs on ISO 9660 file systems.

  • C42 backup suite is a simple python program for maintaining a central backup in a small, but distributed environment with a central file share. Basically it is a wrapper around the tar backup facility.

  • Cedar Backup is a software package designed to manage system backups for a pool of local and remote machines. Cedar Backup understands how to back up filesystem data as well as MySQL and PostgreSQL databases and Subversion repositories. It can also be easily extended to support other kinds of data sources.

  • RESTORE is a free, open source, enterprise network backup and recovery solution for Windows, Novell, Mac OS X (data fork), Unix and Linux systems. RESTORE is scalable to a complete backup solution for multiple workstations, servers, and data centers. It operates over local area networks, wide area networks, and the Internet. RESTORE is a user friendly web-based backup system. With this open source restoration program you can backup files, folders or directories with a few easy steps. RESTORE offers many protocols and ways of accessing your data to both backup files from, or restore files to.

  • Snap Backup is The One-Click open source Backup Utility that makes it simple to protect your important work. Snap Backup is for individual computer users who need a simple and convenient way to backup their valuable files.

  • Synbak is an application designed to unify several backup methods. Synbak provides a powerful reporting system and a very simple interface for configuration files.
    Synbak is a wrapper for several existing backup programs suppling the end user with common method for configuration that will manage the execution logic for every single backup and will give detailed reports of backups result.
    • RSync over ssh, rsync daemon, smb and cifs protocols (using internal automount functions)
    • Tar archives (tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2)
    • Tape devices (using multi loader changer tapes too)
    • LDAP databases
    • MySQL databases
    • Oracle databases
    • CD-RW/DVD-RW
    • Wget to mirror HTTP/FTP servers
    Synbak can make reports using: email, html pages RSS feeds

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Imaging - Cloning

    Open Source Solution
  • Clonezilla is an OpenSource clone system (OCS) solution based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, and udpcast, allows you can massively clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone effiency tools that work together DRBL

  • CloneIT system was created to copy and essentially clone harddisks of identical PCs through a network. This is a common task when installing server racks or farms or update a computer-lab setup where one deals with identical machines. The system software consists of a Linux boot floppy and a ramdisk floppy with minimal system utilities that can perform the task of copying the complete content of disk devices through a network.
    The CloneIt software is not specific to any operating system, since the raw harddrive is beeing copied. The limitation for the use of CloneIt is, that the hardware used in the cloning procedure has to be identical. Cloneit is a good G4u open source alternative.

  • PartImage is an open source cloning solutions based on linux, images can be compressed with gzip / bzip2 programs to save disk space and can be split into multiple files to be copied on CDs and DVDs.

  • FOG is a open-source ghost-like imaging solution/rescue suite. A open source alternative to Ghost, used to image Windows XP, Vista PCs using PXE, PartImage, and a Web Gui to tie it together. Includes Featues like memory and disk test, disk wipe and (soon) av scan

  • SysRescueCD is a Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM for repairing your system and recovering your data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains a lot of system utilities (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It is very easy to use: just boot the CDROM. The kernel supports most of the important file systems (ext2/ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs).

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Software Testing

    Open Source Solution
  • STAF The Software Testing Automation Framework (STAF) is an open source, multi-platform, m ulti-language framework designed around the idea of reusable components, called services (such as process invocation, resource management, logging, and monitoring ). STAF removes the tedium of building an automation infrastructure, thus enabling you to focus on building your automation solution. The STAF framework provides the foundation upon which to build higher level solutions, and provides a pluggable approach supported across a large variety of platforms and languages.

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