OSS recommended picks for business users

ZDNet Asia spoke to open source vendors and developers for their recommendations of open source enterprise software available in the market today, which they say can improve business processes including workflow and content management.

brian reale, business, computer innovation, knowledge management, office suites, open source software, productivity software, science and innovation, software, technology

Enterprise environment that is

Amid an enterprise environment that is but more receptive to utility computing and focused on service-based contracts, open source software adoption has grown over the past two years and entered the IT mainstream.

In an before ZDNet Asia report, Vuk Trikovic, senior analyst at Ovum, said the 2008 recession sent a call for change in the business landscape, in which the model of paying for support was winning mindshare over traditional licensing models. He added that the recession had raised the profile of cloud computing, which had a positive spillover effect on open source. "It's clear that cloud computing and open source go well at the same time, with [third parties providing cloud services that are powered by open source," Trikovic noted.

ZDNet Asia spoke to three open source software vendors and developers to unveil their top open source enterprise software picks, which they would recommend to help boost business operations and growth.

MindTouch's Web site states that its flagship product, Technical Communications Suite, is designed to create, manage and improve discovery and curating process in a company's Web portal.

He as well highlighted Openbravo, a Web-based enterprise resource planning software. Openbravo, according to Reale, is a useful business tool and he pointed to the program's latest 2.5 version release as "outstanding".

Now my question is what specifically "belongs" to a criminal enterprise full of thieves like Apple? Apple is structured like the Mafia as I ha...