Best Open Source Software

InfoWorld editors and reviewers have come out with a special report on the Best Open Source Software for the enterprise for the year 2007 under the following categories:

• Applications: Top offerings in CRM, ERP, portals, content management, and collaboration platforms
  
• Networking: The prizewinning VoIP telephony, directory services, streaming media, network protocol analysis, and wireless sniffer software
  
• Platforms & Middleware: Picks among operating systems, app servers, Web servers, databases, service buses, and virtualization platforms
  
• Security: Top projects in vulnerability scanning, intrusion prevention, anti-virus, anti-spam, firewalls, VPNs, and security testing
  
• Software Development: choices among enterprise IDEs, rich Internet app platforms, AJAX toolkits, business rule management systems, and continuous integration servers
  
• Storage: Top picks among file systems, file servers, storage networking software, and benchmarking tools
  
• Programming Language: Is Perl, PHP, Python, or Ruby best? Do Java and JavaScript count?
  
• Enterprise Monitoring: GroundWork, Hyperic, Qlusters, and Zenoss put the Tivolis and OpenViews on notice.
  

Access this special report at www.infoworld.com/archives/t.jsp?N=s&V=91650