Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems

Every day, you hear more stories about open source successes. Like this one:

Techworld.com - City finds big savings in Linux

Most of the document management chapter of the book focuses on revision control, on applying developer tools to manage documents. It also talks about content management using systems like Plone and wikis. Here’s a more formal document management system, recently made open source, by a company started by the founders of Documentum:

Open Source Enterprise Content Management from Alfresco

Not many people take the time to read software licenses. But you should. It’s amazing how much spin some companies put in their marketing message, compared to the fine print:
LinuxAdvocate.org - The Windows XP EULA in plain English

Especially interesting to read this side-by-side with the GPL.

We’ve written about drakloop and mountloop, a couple of Mandriva programs that simplify the task of creating an encrypted container for your sensitive files. Here’s a new article outlining how to do it in Ubuntu: Linux.com | Encrypt filesystems with EncFS and Loop-AES.