K12 Open Technologies

Enterprises are embracing Xen for server virtualization because it enables them to increase server utilization, consolidate servers, and dramatically reduce complexity and overall total cost of ownership.

Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows. It is an alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can run Windows DLLs.

Shibboleth is standards-based, open source middleware software which provides Web Single SignOn (SSO) across or within organizational boundaries. It allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of protected resources.

Squid is a full-featured open-source web proxy cache. This software is installed on a school server and improves Internet bandwidth by automatically caching frequently accessed Internet resources to the local network.

PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system. It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64), and Windows.

The MySQL database is an open source database intended for new applications built on the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python). MySQL runs on more than 20 platforms, including Linux, Windows, OS/X, HP-UX, AIX, and Netware.

The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Their efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography.

Open Source Initiative (OSI) is the non-profit corporation that administers the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program.

Resources for open source development and implementation.

The Linux Terminal Server simplifies the administering of multiple networked desktop computers by storing the system configuration and desktop applications on a central server.