Open Source Bridge

How OPEN is YOUR infrastructure?

Convener: John Miller, (Metro), Portland
Target Audience: System Admins rather than Developers.
Medium to Large Organizations with some non-technical staff.

So you use lots of Open Source Software. That's easy. Most shops (even Google) have some Windows workstations and Closed/Proprietary systems.

How do you support Windows on your network? Or, how do your (mulit-user) linux workstations mount file systems? NFS? CIFS? Don't you really have a Microsoft Centric Infrastructure? Still paying Microsoft for Client Access Licenses? Exchange Server? Using Active Directory? Office?

How do you set up security schemes for your workgroups? Nothing you say? Maybe we AREN'T completely Open yet?

Come to this session and tell us what basic infrastructure elements you use, open or not, for:

IDENTITY MANAGEMENT

• LDAP, kerberos, Active Directory, etc?

SERVER INFRASTRUCTURE

• Email
• Calendar/Agenda
• Databases
• web platform
• file storage & backup

NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

• firewall
• network hardware & configs - locked into cisco?
• network monitoring
• VoIP

OTHER

• configuration mgmt &, disaster recovery
• media server

GETTING MORE TOWARD APPLICATIONS

• Customer Relationship Management
• content management
• records (document) mgmt, version control

Please write your responses below in your own section, or write them on paper provided, and I will organize onto the wiki.

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