What happens when a company goes entirely opensource?
From the outset at DDP, we’ve used open-source software.
For basic accounting tasks, we use GNUcash. Our supply-chain management software is Compiere ERP and our wholesaler relationship management package is Compiere CRM. We started off with Oracle licenses but eventually retrofitted our packages to use MySQL Community Edition.
All of our servers, of course, run on Linux. The web servers — it goes without saying — use Apache version 2 and PHP for application serving. In fact, our batch jobs are all driven use PHP’s command-line mode because the scripts are easier to maintain than their Perl equivalents (though we have plenty of those, too).
Our directory server is OpenLDAP’s slapd, with replication between our boxes provided by slurpd. The email system used to be Sendmail, but we’re now piloting OpenXChange.
While we started off with Windows desktops, we’ve since transitioned to all Linux desktops. We use GNOME as our desktop user interface, but some of the developers use KDE. Our email client is the very capable Evolution and web browsing is provided by (what else?) Firefox.
Our basic office suite is OpenOffice, which we use for word processing, spreadsheet work, and presentations.
So those are the basics of our environment.
