- 1. Open Source OptionsVersion 1.0October 2011 1
2. Open Source Software Options for GovernmentAim 1. This
document presents options for Open Source Software for use in
Government but shouldnot be considered to be prescriptive or
definitive. 2. It is presented in recognition that open source
software is underused across Governmentand the wider public sector,
despite the current and previous administrations intention
topromote its use. 3. This set of options is primarily intended to
be used by Government to encourage IT suppliersand integrators to
fully evaluate open source options when designing solutions and
services. 4. Note that this publication does not imply preference
for any vendor or product becauseopen source software, by
definition, is not tied inextricably to any particular
commercialorganisation. Any commercial entity can choose to
support, maintain, or integrate opensource software. 5. It is
understood that the software market is a rapidly developing
environment and anyoptions list must be continuously maintained.
However, given the lack of open sourceuptake, this options set is
useful for encouraging IT suppliers to consider open source, and
toaid the assurance of their proposals.Context1. The Coalition
Government believes Open Source Software can deliver significant
short and long term cost savings across Government IT.2. Typical
benefits of Open Source include lower procurement prices, no
license costs, interoperability, easier integration and
customisation, compliance with open technology and data standards
giving autonomy over your own information and freedom from vendor
lock in.3. OSS is not currently widely used in Government IT, and
the leading systems integrators for Government Departments do not
routinely consider open source software for IT solution options, as
required by existing HMG ICT policy. 2 3. 4. There are significant
and wide ranging obstacles to Open Source in Government. Some of
theseare lack of procurement guidance, resistance from suppliers,
concerns about license obligationsand patent issues, and a lack of
understanding of open source maturity and its
developmentecosystem.How to Use 1. This document presents
suggestions for open source software to consider for
meetingbusiness requirements, or as replacements for closed
proprietary software. References toreal world significant use of
the open source software are also provided. 2. This set of options
can be used to: a. Inform the design of new IT solutions. b.
Suggest opportunities for IT service or solution refreshes. c.
Challenge a proposed solution that does not use open source
technology. 3. This document does not present a list of
pre-approved or selected software. This documentdoes not remove
existing requirements for due diligence and assurance on the
partGovernment. In particular it does not transfer any technology
risk from IT integrators andsuppliers to Government. It aims to
improve the capability of Government to select the besttechnology
from a wider set of options.FeedbackPlease provide feedback
to:[email protected] 3 4. 4 5. ContentsTable of
ContentsServer.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
6Data &
Databases........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
10Middleware..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
13Application
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15Application
Development............................................................................................................................................................................................................
17Cloud............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
18Business
Applications...................................................................................................................................................................................................................
21Network.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
27Web.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
30Desktop
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34Specialist
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37Education.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
39Health..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
40Service
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40 5 6. ServerSectorSoftware Consider as Alternative toCommentsReal
World UseServerRedHat Enterprise Linux Microsoft Windows Server
General purpose Unix-like London Stock Exchange hasOperating
operating system with proven moved from a MicrosoftSystems higher
performance, availability .Net based infrastructure toCanonical
Ubuntu Server UNIX - Sun Solaris, IBM AIX,and security record. a
Novell Linux basedHP UXinfrastructure to improve speed and
stability. Enterprise Linux distributions are ReferenceCentOs
Linuxtested more than cutting edgehttp://bit.ly/e2KL7wdistributions
aimed at developersor home use.Novell SUSE Linux Linux powers the
global Wikipedia site. Reference CentOS is a rebuilt from
RedHathttp://bit.ly/13ynJhenterprise versions of the sourcecode but
without Redhattrademarks, and usable without CentOS is used by
thecommercial support subscriptionMexican Federal Powercosts.
Commission. Reference http://bit.ly/hrXBgb Netcraft Survey March
2011 shows top 5 most reliable web hosting providers run Linux.
Reference6 7. http://bit.ly/fyHGxK FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
Microsoft Windows Server General purpose Unix-like Force10 routers
andoperating system with provenswitches have an OS
basedperformance, availability and on NetBSD. Reference UNIX - Sun
Solaris, IBM AIX, security record.http://bit.ly/fDjqZN HP UX BSDs
have a particular record in FreeBSD used in productsinternet and
network services,from major companiesand underly many commercial
including Apple, Blue Coat,network products. Citrix, Ironport,
Juniper.McAfee and NetApp.Reference FreeBSD is considered stable
andhttp://bit.ly/e2wFtEreliable and powers some of ininternets
busiest sites, includingfor a while Microsofts Hotmail. FreeBSD
powers busy sitesReference http://bit.ly/iev6qZincluding Yahoo!
Referencehttp://bit.ly/3eCauvDesktop RedHat Desktop / Workstattion
Microsoft Windows XP, Alternative desktops are likely to 220,000
Canonical UbuntuOperatingLinux Vista, 7 be successful when their
role ordesktops deployed inSystems use is known to not require
Andalusia, Spain. ReferenceMicrosoft applications.
Exampleshttp://bit.ly/ghu4lg Canonical Ubuntu are contact centre
desktops withaccess to a web basedapplication. CentOs Linux Novell
SUSE LinuxVirtualisation Linux KVM VMWare vSphere / ESX / KVM is
rapidly gaining industry IBM uses KVM as basis forsupport as the
leadingits IaaS cloud platform. 7 8. XenServeralternative to the
incumbent Reference virtualisation platforms.
Thehttp://bit.ly/d9yNqL Open Virtualisation Alliance which aims to
promote KVM over VMWare has more than 160 KVM leads other members
inlcudig iBM, Redhat,virtualisation technologies Intel, HP and BMC.
in SPEC benchmarks.Referencehttp://bit.ly/ovT81B and Xen pioneered
virtualisation but http://bit.ly/vBEtu9 is considered to overtaken
by KVM based platforms. Citrix offers commercial support for Xen
based virtualisation. Virtualbox VMWare Workstation, Desktop
virtualisation, developed Oracles VDI enterprise Parallels for
desktop by Sun, now managed by Oracle. product is based on Supports
features comparable toVirtualbox. Reference commercial software
includinghttp://bit.ly/sQHcGI device passthrough. Compatible with a
Vmware (vmdk), Microsoft (vhd) and Open Virtualisation Format (OVF)
virtual machine images. Light client only software is ideal for
development and testing environments.Virtual SPICE
(http://www.spice- Citrix KVM with SPICE will become the TBADesktop
space.org/)strategic enterprise grade VDIInfrastructuroffering from
RedHateRemote rdesktop Citrix ICA Rdesktop is a client for
TBADesktopMicrosofts RDP protocol.AccessClients 8 9. RealVNC,
TightVNC, UltraVNC VNC servers and clients enable platform
independent remote desktop use. Handshaking allows
VirtualBoxinteroperability between different VNC implementations.
Most clients will fall back to the common RDP protocol for
accessing remote desktops virtual or physical.Backup Amanda, Bacula
NetVault Backup Amanda and Bacula are Corporate and public sector
compatible across Linux, Unix, testimonials for large scale MacOS
and Windows systems. deployments includingBelgian Governmentbacking
up 30TB. Referencehttp://bit.ly/gp64Jy 9 10. Data &
DatabasesSector SoftwareConsider as Alternative to CommentsReal
World UseRelational MySQLMicrosoft SQL Server General purpose, long
Some of the largest and userDatabasesestablished and
proven.intensive online services useMysql, including Google, Oracle
DB Facebook, FLickr, Wikipedia, Component of established LAMPNokia,
Youtube. Reference pattern stack, supporting many
http://bit.ly/gZf5T7 IBM DB2common patterns including Joomla,
Wordpress, Drupal. Other users providingstudies and testimonials
Optimised for read speed.include NASA, UN FAO, US Historically not
designed to beNavy, Whitehouse.gov, New feature rich.Zealand
Ministry of Justice,Ericsson, Cable & Wireless,Nokia.
Referencehttp://bit.ly/rE8XM PostgreSQL Microsoft SQL Server Long
established and proven. Large data oriented services Historically
developed for feature use PostgreSQL including completeness to
compete with Yahoo!, MySpace, Sony Oracle DBcommercial databases.
Features Online, Skype, International include streaming
replication, Space Station. Unmodified triggers, table partitioning
and PostgreSQL scaling to stored procedures resembling petabytes.
Reference IBM DB2 10 11. Oracles PL/SQL. http://bit.ly/6ttyNn
EnterpriseDB variant aims to 2011 Police Crime Map site replace
Oracle database. uses postgresql database. Atpeak demand was
220,000requests/second.www.police.ukDistributed Hadoop Google
MapReduce Hadoop is the leading platform Hadoop is used by
leadingLargefor petabyte scale distributed large scale
operationsStoragedata storage and processing. It is including
Amazon/A9 HBase, Cassandra Google BigTable designed to detect and
manageproduct search, Adobe, AOL, failures in commodity
computeBaidu at 3000TB/week, Ebay nodes, thus not relying on 532
node cluster and 5.3PB, expensive high-availabilityFacebook
1100-node cluster Redis NoSQL hardware. Compatible with12PB data,
Hulu media MapReduce APIs.service, IBM Blue CloudComputing,
Last.fm,LinkedIn, New York Times, During 2001, several
commercialMicrosoft Powerset, offering provide support
aroundRackspace, Twitter, Yahoo Hadoop components, or Hadoop-with
more than 40,000 like components, including fromnodes . Reference
EMC, Oracle and IBM. http://bit.ly/zI1Wp HBase is modelled after
Googles Adobe, Powerset, distributed database BigTable.
Stumbleupon, Yahoo!,Twitter, and Facebook useHBase.
Referencehttp://bit.ly/15mgo5 Cassandra developed and open sourced
by Facebook provides faster large storage balanced by eventual
consistency. It follows Users of Cassandra for large the NoSQL
concept. The multi-data stores include Cisco master architecture
has no singleWebEX, Digg, Facebook, points of failure, and zero-
Rackspace, Twitter.11 12. downtime failed node Reference
replacement. Designed for highly http://bit.ly/g1HATc and
consistent durable storage http://bit.ly/a7Ii4X through data centre
failures. Redis NoSQL store is governed by VMWare12 13.
MiddlewareSectorSoftware Consider as Alternative toComments Real
World UseMessage Bus RabbitMQIBM MQ AMPQ is the establishing open
RabbitMQ is used by NASAstandard for Message Queuefor their cloud
platform, andtechnologies. RabbitMQ is a by the BBC for itsJBOSS
BEA Weblogicleading implementation. newsfeeds. ReferenceRabbitMQ
can be supported byhttp://bit.ly/o77FY5a VMWare company.Service Bus
WSO2 Carbon IBM, Oracle Java OSGi Leading Danish bank usesJBOSS ESB
for missioncritical
applications.JBOSSReferencehttp://red.ht/uZ6qUISOA JBOSS BEA
Aqualogic IBM reference: CamdenCouncil used JBOSS createda single
view of the citizen IBM ESB, IBM EIIto reduce avoidable contactwith
the contact centre andimprove the citizenexperience.
Referencehttp://red.ht/ueg4sz13 14. Oystercard web services have
been migrated to the JBOSS SOA platform with 80% cost saving,
serving approx 10m customers per day.Reference http://red.ht/vhfAgY
and http://bit.ly/ueHOKa14 15. Application
ServersSectorSoftwareConsider as Alternative toCommentsReal World
UseJavaRedhat JBoss IBM Websphere JBoss implements the Java EE 6
Testimonials for GlassfishApplicationstack. Fully featured, it
supports include social networkingServer clustering, failover, load
sites, technologySun / Oracle Glassfish Oracle / BEA Weblogic
balancing and the range of EEconsultancies, software components
including JMS, JAAS,vendors, Peugeot Citroen, JSP and JDBC.US
health network, Suncorpinsurance. ReferenceApache
Tomcathttp://bit.ly/PTDz2 Glassfish supports Java EE 6
specification and is known forApache Geronimo scalability and
speed. Supports Siemens uses large scale clustering and load
balancing. physical mail processingsystem using JBOSSApplication
Server, Apache Tomcat is a popular and processing 700,000 mail
proven servlet container items per hour, with 99.8% implementing
the Java Servletavailability.Reference and JSP specifications. It
ishttp://red.ht/sjAsYb known to be embedded in commercial products.
New York Stock ExchangeEuronext uses JBOSS Apache Geronimo is a
full Java EEplatform. Reference suite, currently implements Java
http://red.ht/ugXJX1 EE 5 specification. 15 16. JBOSS Application
Server use quoted by RedHat with the following: (i) Autotrader in
the UK currently runs its high volume website and over 120
applications on JBoss Application platform, (ii) UFI / Learndirect
runs online education courses and advice sessions for up to 2
million users using JBoss technology, (iii) Siemens have built a
high volume, highly performant and highly available (99.8%) mail
sorting application for up to 700,000 pieces of mail per hour.
Reference http://red.ht/seYxXk16 17. Application
DevelopmentSectorSoftware Consider as Alternative to Comments Real
World UseWeb PHP, Zend Framework Microsoft ASP.Net Very common
component of the Real world uses by CiscoApplicationLAMP pattern.
(Linux Apache,WebEx, NYSE Euronext, FoxDevelopmen MySQL, PHP)
Interactive Media, FiattGroup, IBM R&D Labs, Mcafee. Reference
Zend Framework provides http://bit.ly/o6TcFz additional libraries
and components for developers.CodeGit, Subversion Visual
Sourcesafe, Rational Git is the leading distributed One of the
worlds largestRepositoryTeam Concert, Perforce version control
system. Support and most distributedand Versionnon-linear
development, developments, the LinuxControlcryptographic
authentication of kernel, is managed by git. histories, and is
suited to the largest developments. 17 18. CloudSectorSoftware
Consider as Alternative toComments Real World UseCloud OpenStack
Amazon Web Services, Emerging standard with Over 60
significantInfrastructur Microsoft Azure, VMWare,significant
multi-vendor backingorganisations backinge Citrixproviding
assurance against OpenStack. Referencesingle-vendor lockin and
failure. http://bit.ly/e3AMz6 Primarily developed by NASA and NASA
production use ofRackspace, now backed by AMD, OpenStack
components.Intel, Dell, Citrix, Cisco,Canonical, NTT and over 60
otherorganizations. Tier 1 ISP using OpenStackobject storage.
Referencehttp://bit.ly/eGQ4Nr Provides virtual machinemanagement
(OpenStackCompute) and storage(OpenStack Storage). Supports Xen,
KVM, Qemu andMicrosoft Hyper-V hypervisors. Supports the open
virtualmachine format, OVF, supportedby Dell, Microsoft,
Xensource,18 19. VMware, Redhat, IBM and Oracle. Eucalyptus, Ubuntu
Enterprise Amazon Web Services, Early re-implementation of the
Puma.com and related sitesCloud Microsoft Azure, VMWare, industry
leading Amazon EC2 anduse Eucalyptus. ReferenceCitrix S3 services
for managing virtual http://bit.ly/hd9Dgy machines. Now forms part
of commercialised cloud management offerings, including Canonicals
Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services. Allows deployment , management
and dynamic scaling of private and hybrid clouds (overflow capacity
to public clouds, eg Amazon) Supports Xen, KVM hypervisors
OpenNebula Amazon Web Services, Interoperates with Amazon EC2,
OpenNebula is used byMicrosoft Azure, VMWare, ElasticHosts CERN
which peaked atCitrix16,000 virtual machinesmanaging 400,000 jobs.
Users manage via Amazon AWSReferences compliant APIs
http://bit.ly/9SalWZ andhttp://bit.ly/jiB7aE Allows deployment ,
management and dynamic scaling of private and hybrid19 20. clouds
(overflow capacity to public clouds, eg Amazon) Supports Xen, KVM
and VMware hypervisors20 21. Business ApplicationsSector Software
Consider as Alternative to CommentsReal World UseEmail Server
ZimbraMicrosoft Exchange Server Zimbra was acquired by Zimbra is
used by NTT,VMWare. It offers email, Purdue University,
Comcast,calendar, global address lists and US Defense Department,
Zarafacollaboration. It interoperatesBechtel and Raytheon.through
open standards with aReferencerange of clients.http://bit.ly/8VKcpy
Zarafa aims to replace Exchange Zarafa customers includeand
integrates with MS Outlook.health sector, localProvides webmail
service withauthorities, retail andOutlook look and feel.
Supportsmanufacturing andActiveSync devices and education. Examples
areBlackberry Enterprise Server.Sixt, Brabantia, and
FinnishIntegrates with SugarCRM,municipality. ReferenceAlfresco ECM
and OpenERP.http://bit.ly/rGBRJB andSupports mail
search,http://bit.ly/tswL5Jhierarchical storage andarchiving.Search
Lucene / Solr Microsoft FAST Lucene/Solr is a functionaly Lucene
provides searchEnginecapable and scalable searchcapability for
Wikipedia.engine. Can index PDF, HTML, Reference
XapianExaleadMicrosoft Word and ODF http://bit.ly/erRSEdformats,
amongst others.Lucene/Solrs strength is in its 21 22. Autonomy IDOL
performance and scalability. It High traffic public websitesalso
provides features normallythat use Solr/Lucene includeonly found in
the most expensive AOL, whitehouse.gov, AT&T,search
engines.Ticketmaster, The Guardian, Netflix, news.com, dig, NASA
PDS, eBuyer.com. Other users include Goldman Sachs, Disney, Apple,
Cisco, NASA NEBULA, MTV. Reference http://bit.ly/WlANZIntranet,
Alfresco Mircrosoft Sharepoint, Alfresco founded by co-founder
30,000 public user capacityPortal andOpenText Vignette, Oracle of
Documentum and former COO at AQA - Assessment
&InternetWebCenter of Business Objects. Qualification
Alliance.Collaboratio Referencenhttp://bit.ly/4FY8b8 Islington
Council. Reference http://bit.ly/dh3W6i University of Westminster
Intranet. Reference http://bit.ly/hlRkrX Liferay Mircrosoft
Sharepoint, Liferay is a leading enterprise Clients include Cisco,
T-OpenText Vignette, Oracle portal server. It provides Mobile,
Societe Generale,WebCenter functions and portlets for
Barclays,French MoD,content management, blogs, Lufthansa,
Vodafone,instant messaging, SSO, messageAllianz, . Referenceboards,
calendar mail, polls,http://bit.ly/cd5sW3image gallery,
tagging,knowledge base, asset publishingand publishing workflow. It
isJSR168 compliant.22 23. Document Alfresco Mircrosoft Sharepoint,
Alfresco is CMIS 1.0 compliant. Cisco Internet Businessand
ContentOpentext, Filenet, Solutions Group. ReferenceManagement
Documentum http://bit.ly/hl250JSystem(CMS) French Air Force
documentinformation system.Referencehttp://bit.ly/i8kPVZRecords
Alfresco Mircrosoft Sharepoint, CMIS 1.0 and DoD 5015.02 Islington
Council. ReferenceManagement Documentum, Meridio, certifications.
Implementshttp://bit.ly/dh3W6i(EDRM) TRIM, Objective. Sharepoint
protocol to act assubstitute backend. EADS 20,000 paper
files.Referencehttp://bit.ly/hRJx4VWorkflow, FoxOpen Developed by
Department of Department for Energy andForms & Energy and
Climate Change and Climate Change (DECC)Caseused for rapid
applicationapplications include Oil &Managementdevelopment for
workflow, MVC Gas Portal, FOI casebased and case handling
management,applications. correspondence handling.Also used by BIS,
MoD,Boing and Australian Dept ofHealth.
Referencehttp://bit.ly/gtU1ZY 23 24. Enterprise OpenERP SAP,
Oracle, Microsoft Open ERP is commercially OpenERP customers
includeResourceDynamics, PeopleSoft, SAGE, developed and
supported.La Poste, Veolia, Danone,PlanningSAP Modular capabilities
includeOracle. Reference(ERP) Openbravosales, CRM, project
management, http://bit.ly/ej0HHRstock management, accountingand
human resources. Alsoprovides vertical industry specific OpenBravo
3 times winnderapplications over OpenERP.of Infoworld
softwareawards. Referencehttp://bit.ly/9K9Jyx OpenBravo is
commerciallydeveloped and supported.Includes finance and
accounting, Open bravo customerssales, purchasing, inventory,
include BBVA, Coapteprocurement, manufacturing, French healthcare,
Basqueprojects, and businessCity Hall. Referenceintelligence.
http://bit.ly/mClVNCustomer SugarCRM Microsoft Dynamics, SugarCRM
is a commercially SugfarCRM customers fromRelationshipSageCRM,
Salesforce successful CRM system providing comms,
financial,Manegemnt sales-force automation, healthcare, public
,(CRM) marketing campaignprofessional services,management, customer
support, manufacturing, technologymobile device CRM and and retail
sectors includereporting.uzo (Portugals largesttelecoms provider),
OneFinancial, HealthScreen In 2011, SugarCRM joined the(replacing
Siebel),State ofIBM Global Alliance Portfolio for Oregon, InterAct
(publiccloud solutions.safety and security),Thomas
Cook,ThyssenKrupp, Avis, GeneralMotors .
Referencehttp://bit.ly/sEHA3MBusiness Pentaho BI Suite Oracle, IBM,
Informatica Includes ETL, OLAP, reporting, Customers include
CamdenIntelligencedashboards, workflow and data Borough, US Naval
Air24 25. (BI)mining capability. Integrates with Systems Command,
HarrisHadoop for large scale dataComputer Systems,
Sunanalysis.Microsystems, Specsavers, NHS Islington, Brussels
Airport, Norways TV2. Reference http://bit.ly/ehITaMData Talend
IBM, Oracle, Software AG, Mature data integration tools Customers
include ebay,Integration Tibco, Progress, Informatica, covering
file migrations, data Deutsche Post, Allianz,
ING,Mulesoftwarehousing, ETL, master dataAlcatel-Lucent, AOL,
BNPmanagement, data quality Paribas, Orange, Virginprofiling.
Application integration Mobile, Sony, SNCF, Landand ESB functions.
Integration Registry, UNHCR. Referencewith Hadoop aims at big data
http://bit.ly/4odsN andanalysis.http://bit.ly/4odsN Talend is one
of the largestcompanies with an open sourcebusiness model.Business
Activi BPM, Intalio BPM TBAProcessModelling(BPM)Human OrangeHRM
Oracle, SAP OrangeHRM is a corporately Customers includeResources
developed HR managementLandmark property(HR)system that covers
leaving,management . Referencejoining, time
management,http://bit.ly/tMal9srecruitment, performance,expenses,
leave, reporting. Thereare delivery partners across theglobe. 25
26. 26 27. NetworkSector Software Consider as Alternative to
Comments Real World UseNetworkNagios, other BMC, CA, Orion Nagios
has heritage in many ISPs. Nagios provides
monitoringMonitoringOften used with the ganglia for the
Wikipediagraphing system.infrastructure. Reference OpenNMS IBM
Tivoli, HP OpenViewhttp://bit.ly/erRSEd OpenNMS is a scalable
Zabbixenterprise class network Zabbix is used by largemonitoring
system. Integrates organisations such as DEACwith service
management IT services across fourRequest Tracker.continents,
leading Polish Hyperic HQtelecoms Netia monitoring20,000
parameters, NTT Hyperic acquired by VMwareComms, large Brazilian
GroundWorkenergy company PetroBras.also supports monitoring
ofvirtualised infrastructure. Referencehttp://bit.ly/swdGQw ZenOSS
Zabbixcis a mature monitoringframework with agents for many ZenOSS
is used byoperating systems and softwareRackspace, LinkedIn,stacks.
VMWare, Motorola, LosAlamos, LexisNexis,Deutsche Bank, US
Army,Broadcom, Telstra, ZenOSS is a leading networkCapGemini.
Referencemonitoring system, deployed tohttp://bit.ly/vrdvui35,000
customers across 35 27 28. countries.Mail Sendmail Microsoft
Exchange Sendmail has been powering Transport email globally since
the early80s. QmailCertificate CA-Cert TBAAuthoritiesNetwork
Wireshark TBAScannerNetwork Vyatta Cisco Integrated Services
Provides network services and Customers include
Toyota,ServicesRouters, Cisco ASA security applications based on
open CBS, CSC, EMC, Dell, Nokia,appliancessource core and
software,VMWare, Rackspace,including routing, VPN.FranceTelecom, US
Homeland Security, US Justice Department. Commercial support
available.ReferenceConsidered cheaper
thanhttp://bit.ly/gbFoTuincumbents Similar interface to
JuniperJUNOS and Cisco IOS, as well asgraphical interface.Network
FreeNAS NetAPP Provides common storage and TBAAttachedfiler
services through software,Storage but without the highperformance
and expensivehardware. For small scale 28 29. requirements.
Services include CIFS, NFS, iSCSI,FTP.Telephony Asterisk Cisco
Unified Asterisk is a mature software Customers of services
basedVOIP Communications Manager PBX, covering PSTN and VoIPon
Atserisk include USservices. Features include Army, Symbian
Foundation,voicemail, conference calling, La Poste, University
ofand automatic call distribution. Pennsylvania. ReferenceProtocols
supported include SIP, http://bit.ly/b8zhvNMGCP, H323. Asterisk is
knownto support commercial PBXproducts. 29 30. WebSector Software
Consider as Alternative toCommentsReal World UseWeb Server Apache
web server Microsoft IIS Apache is the web server behind Netcraft
survey April 2011 the majority of internet websites, shows 61% of
internet and has been dominant for 15 websites hosted by Apache,
years. compared to 18% byMicrosoft IIS. Apache serves the
globalWikipedia site. Referencehttp://bit.ly/13ynJh Lighttpd,
nginx, Cherokee Microsoft IIS High performance alternatives to
Netcraft survey April 2011 Apache. Designed for shows 6.5% of the
million performance and scalability, not most active sites served
by for a wide range of functionality. nginx. Nginx and Cherokee
have built in Lighttpd serves static media streaming capability
tocontent for Wikipedia. serve you-tube like
capability.Referencehttp://bit.ly/erRSEd Lighttpd is used by
Youtube,Sourceforge and torrent 30 31. sites facing more than 1000
hits per second. Reference http://bit.ly/g5bke7 Nginx is used byWeb
Cache, Squid, Varnish F5 BIG IP, McAfee Web Squid cache supports
theReverseGateway, Zeus global Wikipedia and FlickrProxysites.
Reference http://bit.ly/dJi4U1Flash Media JWFlashplayer Adobe Flash
Player JWFlashplayer is compatible with JWFlashplayer users
includePlayer media sources hosted by CDNsWhitehouse, Thomson such
as Amazon CloudFront and Reuters, Avis, AT&T, Flowplayer
Akamai. Harvard, Intel and Nasdaq. Reference http://bit.ly/tRAwk6
JWFlashplayer also supports HTML5 playback, avoiding the
requirement for Flash. This makes it compatible with non- Flash
devices such as the iPhone and iPad.Web Content Alfresco Morello,
Vignette/Opentext, Includes web authoring, Fox Broadcasting
CompanyManagement Interwoven/Autonomy workflow and
publishing.public site Fox.com isSystem supported by
Alfresco.(CMS)Reference http://bit.ly/ffAhmW Drupal Morello,
Vignette/Opentext, Includes mature web publishing, whitehouse.gov
website Interwoven/Autonomy blogs, content syndication, uses
Drupal. Reference discussion forums, and large pool
http://nyti.ms/3NmpYO31 32. Joomlaof community developed Very large
number of Ploneextensions.customers include Brazilian Government,
Norwegian PloneArchive, Kent Connects and Plone is particularly
suited toKent CC, Scottish Nationalmore complex applications,
Party, Warwickshire Police,workflows. It also has a strongUK MoD
Defence Academy,security record. Plones interface NASAScience,
Keble Oxfordconfirms to accessibility standard and Bristol
University, NHSWCAG-AAA higher than mostNetworks.
Referencecompetitors. Plone has strengths http://bit.ly/vThQAnin
standards conformance,access control,internationalisation, and
Plone is also used by thesecurity.FBI, US Dept of Energey, European
Environment Agency, United Nations, . Reference
http://bit.ly/g0XtIrBlog Engine Wordpress sss Leading blog engine
with rich Microsoft Live Spacesfunctionality. Users benefit
frommigrates to Wordpress bloglarge pool of communityengine.
Referencedeveloped extensions.http://bit.ly/d545X0Wiki MediaWiki,
tikiwiki MediaWiki is the leading wiki MediaWiki is the
softwareengine.behind global scale WikiPedia. Reference
http://bit.ly/13ynJhWeb Open Web Analytics (OWA) OWA is a leading
web analytics TBAAnalytics with support for bespoke sitesand
integration into WordPress, Piwik Drupaland MediaWiki.
Offerscampaign tracking and user in- 32 33. page tracing. Piwik
aims to clone Google Analytics.33 34. Desktop OfficeSector Software
Consider as Alternative toComments Real World UseDesktopLibre
Office / OpenOffice Microsoft Office LibreOffice is community
OpenOffice has significantOffice developed and has significant use
in some sectors acrossApplications development partners andthe
world including, momentum. Birmingham City, French National
Assembly, City of Vienna, 50,000 Brazil OpenOffice is governed by
Federal desktop. Reference Oracle, which was
originallyhttp://bit.ly/bf0RFN developed by Sun as StarOffice. IBMs
corporate Symphony The interoperability gap betweenoffice suite is
based on LibeOffice and Microsoft Office isOpenOffice. continuously
being narrowed.PDF Creation PDFCreatorAdobe Acrobat Creation of
PDFs from any TBA Windows application that can print. Provides more
control over PDF creation than alternative print to file solutions.
Features include digital signing, PDF/A archives, merging PDFs and
encryption. Runs on terminal servers. 34 35. Media Player VLC,
Openshot Quicktime, Adobe products TBAfor Audio &VideosProject
Project.net Microsoft Project Project.net is an anterprise scale
Project.net is listed inManagement project management
application.Gartner Magic Quadrant forIT Project and
PortfolioManagement Applciations.Referencehttp://bit.ly/cX3O8w
Customers include FTServices, GenesysConferencing, City of
SanFrancisco, Trak, Penn StateUniversity.
Referencehttp://bit.ly/uORUMiEncryption GnuPG/GPG Symantec / PGP
Corporation There are several TBA productsimplementations of the
OpenPGP standard RFC4880. GnuPG is an open source implementation
and Windows interfaces are available.Email Outlook plugin for email
Boldon James Outlook plugin is developed by The National
ArchivesLabellinglabelling from The National The National Archives
ArchivesWeb Firefox, Chrome/Chromium Microsoft Internet Explorer
Firefox,w hich grew out of the Guardian reports that
inBrowserMozilla/Netscape efforts,Europe Firefox has became the
leading browser overtaken Internet Explorer noted for its standards
as most widely used35 36. compliance. browser.
Referencehttp://bit.ly/fQ2hXH Recently during 2011, GooglesChrome
browser was measured 2011 IE has only 38.9% userto be on track to
become theshare, trends show Chromeleading browser.will become
dominantbrowser soon.http://bit.ly/rqnlQj Historically, Internet
Explorer hasbeen considered by many not beas standards compliant
asalternative browsers. Its use ofActiveX as a mechanism has
ledsome to consider it to have agreater attack surface. It is
bestpractice for web developers totest against a range of
browsers,with IE-only support consideredbad practice.Assistive
NonVisual Desktop Access Dragon Screen reader for Windows, NVDA has
receivedTechnologies (NVDA) providing feedback throughsignificant
globalsynthetic speech and Braille. recognition and awards.Supports
over 20 languages. Yahoo! Uses NVDA forIntegrates with Internet
Explorer,testing and demonstration.Outlook Express, Microsoft Word
Referencesand Excel, LibreOffice andhttp://bit.ly/fJKfhqOpenOffice,
Thunderbird andFirefox. Protocols supportedinclude WAI-ARIA for
webapplications, Microsoft ActiveAccessibility. 36 37. Specialist
ApplicationsSectorSoftwareConsider as Alternative to CommentsReal
World UseStatistics &GNU RS/S-plus, SAS, SPSS GNU R is the
leading and mature Gnu R is becoming tehData Analysis statistics
and numerical defacto statisticalcomputing system. It is now
theprogramming environment,established lead in academia and as
evidenced by subjectincreasingly in industry,texts and it use
indisplacing commercial products.universities.Data Mining
RapidMiner SPSS, SAS PASW, SAS Leading data mining and KDnuggets
leading Enterprise Miner, MATLAB,exploration toolkit, providing
professional newsletter for Oracle DM, , Excel access to proven
tools, such asdata mining sector pollWEKA, through a graphical user
shows RapidMiner as mostinterface. Includes text miningused tool.
Referencecapability.http://bit.ly/dy9XwPProgrammmin
EclipseMicrosoft Visual Studio TBAg IDEKDeveleopImage & Photo
GIMP Adobe Photoshop GIMP is a very capable image
sssManipulationeditor and for many use casescan be used instead
ofproprietary software. Installers 37 38. Krita for Windows are
available.Desktop Scribus TBAPublishingVector Inkscape Adobe
Illustrator TBADrawingDiagramming Dia Microsoft Visio Support for
open standard TBA formats such as EPS and SVG. Installers for
Windows are available.CAD QCad AutoCAD Simple CAD application uses
TBA AutoCAD DXF common file format. Windows installer
available.3DModelling, Blender Maya Comparable to commercial
Feature films have usedRendering &software, used to
renderBlender for support,Animationproduction quality scenes and
animation and effects. animations. Reference http://bit.ly/huBi3R
TV commercials. Reference http://bit.ly/gA5ze238 39.
EducationSector SoftwareConsider as Alternative toCommentsReal
World UseCourse Moodle Learning management system for Moodle has
significant useManagementcourse creators andin the education
sector,administrators.including Open University, Australian
National University, London School of Economics. Reference
http://bit.ly/gXRiAVElearningMoodle TBA39 40. HealthSector Software
Consider as Alternative toComments Real World UsePatientVistA ---
VistA is used globally. TBA, Wikipedia hasRecordsreferences OpenEHR
TBA . Brasil, UK leedsService ManagementSector Software Consider as
Alternative toComments Real World UseIT Service OTRS ITSM ---
Includes change request and SLA TBAManagement management, self
service, dashboards and imact reporting. Conforms to ITIL. 40 41.
File Audit DROID TNA developed for Digital TBAContinuity Programme,
DROIDinventories and analyses filesheld by an organisation
byintrinsic pattern analysis. NOknown commercial competitor. 41
