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Can you tell us a little more about your requirements? If you're looking for a fully-implemented enterprise-level of virtualization, there aren't many products out there that are affordable. The one that comes to mind is Virtual Iron (link). The cost for the full edition is about 20% that of VMware, and it's based on Xen. The trouble with
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I'm a VMware fan - unabashedly, unashamedly, and I remain convinced that it's the best product out there (mostly since I get to play with all of the products in my blogger role for TechTarget). That said, there are alternatives, and VMware's big-company focus does burn my biscuits. The biggest competitor to VMware right now, in terms of
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For a long time, the NPO I work for used a virtualization setup and Citrix-clone combination to serve our home workers and road warriors. We've since moved on to higher-end VMware and Citrix software, thanks to some great commitments from our Board and some funds from forward-thinking donors, but I'd love to share what we had, and how it worked
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Wer'e using it - we use OpenFire from Ignite RealTime (which was Wildfire, and before that it was Jive... enough with the name changes). We've been loving it for three years now, and the Active Directory integration has made provisioning a breeze. I have several people who use the gateway services to AIM, YIM, etc. and that works great for us
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Very cool - I've just downloaded for my Mac and I love it - my flickr account is in, my RSS feeds are in, my custom blog site is in, and it's just seamless. I can't wait to start extending it...
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FSW, one of Connecticut's oldest social service enterprises, is seeking to hire an IT Support Specialist to augment its IT Department. The successful candidate will be responsible for helpdesk support, systems management, and database development. This will be a direct-facing position within a dynamic social services agency. FSW offers a competitive
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Agreed, and a keen observation of a risk present in any specialized department! There's a common thread of potential excess in many departments that aren't sharply understood by senior management, and they all need oversight by a CEO and other execs who have a solid understanding of the business behind the department. One sad example that is
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For those who like to (or have to) host web meeting on platforms such as WebEx and GoToMeeting, there is an open source application called dimdim that's raised some eyebrows with it's alpha release. While not finished yet, it's still very polished and professional, and with the exception of some problematic issues with port address translation
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There's an historical reason for IT reporting to the CFO. Once upon a time it was finance that was the sole department that truly needed computing power (aka Data Processing) to run the books for large companies that could afford their own six-figure and up mainframes. Other departments like shipping, purchasing, personnel (nka HR) were still paper
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An OS/X version (fork) of OOO is available that uses the Aqua interface, as opposed to the main branch of OOO which requires X.11 (which is just plain ugly and dificult to use). NeoOffice, from http://www.neooffice.org, is stable, but a bit slower than the main branch of OOO. There's a cost to download a compiled version prior, but the source code