The Jump Box web site is inspiring as I see one more company capitalizing on the services industry that feeds off of open source software. I suppose that if you do not have the time or experience then you can rely on these services. Seasoned IT geeks like myself grew up with Linux and can appreciate the logic behind saving time when using any product.
What I want to point out is that there is paid support for any open source solution that we want to consider. An IT department does not want to place their business partners in a situation where any of the supplied solutions are not supported by outside vendors. IT departments must always want to allow their business partners an alternative to acquiring support for an installed solution. Ideally the on site staff can support most applications, but when times get rough you gotta have a second opinion and paid support must be available.
Doing some testing. I have not tweaked my TCP/IP stack yet. i am running Vista from Austin, Texas at the Midtown RV park using Time Warner Cable Road Runner Turbo.
The Impact of African Languages on American English
Joseph E. Holloway, Ph.D.
California State University Northridge
- Another Wolof word popular in present-day American English is “dig,” as in “dig this man.” This word stems from the Wolof word dega, meaning either “look here” or to “understand,” often used to mark the beginning of a sentence. In the English spoken by African Americans in the 1960s, “dig” means ” to understand something.” An example in Wolof is dega nga olof, “Do you understand Wolof?”
I created a Google web page in 2005 to demonstrate how easy it is to create a web page for free. I am an advocate in open source software and I really like what Google has done in this effort. Having access to the Internet for free has always been one of my passions. In Portland Oregon back in 2000 I help found one of the largest free wireless groups in the country. Personal Telco Project is still active today using a logo that I created with my Wacom tablet.
So with all of the tools available that are free, why use tools that cost money? Well I use both and I hate to say it but I use the tools that cost money more than the tools that are free. One reason that I use commercial software tools from Adobe and Microsoft is that I make my living using and teaching folks how to use them. When I was unemployed in Portland for two years I used open source tools a lot. During that time I did not have to use commercial tools and I choose to use open source tools. I quickly learned that I could do almost everything using open source tools.
So when you compare Microsoft web portal tools like SharePoint and open source web portal tools like Joomla there is a big difference in price. I have created web portals using both technologies. The SharePoint sites may not work when you read this but they are up as of December 24, 2007. The SharePoint sites are the HT Campus site and a Lonnie’s Personal site. The Joomla sites are The Austin Pond Society and launi.com.
So what is the really big difference between using open source portal software, commercial software and Google web page tools? Well unlike the other server based tools Google web page tools are all on-line and you can use them without knowing any HTML or having any knowledge of how to run a server. There certainly are advantages and disadvantages to each of these solutions for web portals so your mileage may vary. From my experience there is a steep learning curve for SharePoint and it is very expensive to run. If you are on a tight budget then Joomla is really a nice easy to use web portal.
I did this test while streaming Sirius radio
