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Voice Over IP (VoIP) is becoming a main part of the small business infrastructure. As phone networks converge with data networks, security becomes more of a concern.

Here's a fascinating interview with Gary Edwards, who was on the committee that developed OpenDocument as a standard.

New Open Source ERP vendor in Belgium. Interview with the founder here: Open source start-up updates its ERP suite for SMBs

Computer history has some interesting parallels in the history of the American West. After the initial forays of Lewis and Clark and the first set of explorers, early settlers crossed the plains in covered wagons. But the West wasn't accessible to most Americans until the age of the railroads, when the Union Pacific Railroad put tracks across the continent and started running regular passenger service.

This school made 60 Pentium I and Pentium II computers useful for their students, using a Linux thin-client solution, on a tiny technology budget.

There are a number of ways to integrate Linux clients and servers into an Active Directory environment. This article discusses a few of them.

Names of open source projects are suddenly getting ridiculous. Two new names were just unveiled in the Open Source world: Zimbra, and Joomla. While the names may be silly and potentially off-putting, the projects themselves are compelling.

Brian Proffitt, editor of Linux World, has a nice editorial debunking "Total Cost of Ownership" (TCO) studies in general, because they only fit the particular business being studied.

Here's a short interview with John Terpstra, one of the main developers of the Samba project, from LinuxWorld in San Francisco: LinuxWorld: Small vendors on right track with SMB focus

Another good, brief story shedding insight into the economics of Open Source. It's not just about licensing and deployment costs--it's about investing in your people, which can generate bigger gains down the road. It's not just saving money, it's creating opportunity.

This essay is from an open source developer, talking about his motivations to write free software. It refers to a bunch of projects that may not mean anything to the general public, but it still provides insight into some of the key motivations. Hint: it's not to make money...

Putting together a proposal for a potential client, we've unearthed a couple of cool Electronic Medical Record (EMR) applications.