Saving money on corporate networks

Using Linux as part of your network, you could implement interesting use cases.

No hard drive/Network boot
You can load a Linux OS on your desktop, without hard drive devices. All programs and utilities are stored on centralized server. If you have old computers you can use them as part of your network again.

Compatibility
You may want to use your Linux Desktop to use Windows based programs, a good approach, is use Remote Desktop (RDP) to access a Windows Server.

Licencing
You cannot pay any money in order to use Linux OS. It doesn't matter how much Desktop your network has, just decide to use and start to save.


How much do you want to save?

Upgrade your Desktop to Ubuntu

If you want to try Ubuntu without hard disk installation, you could try asking for live CDs, this means Ubuntu will run from a bootable media.

About Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.

The Ubuntu promise
Ubuntu will always be free of charge, including enterprise releases and security updates. Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical and hundreds of companies around the world. Ubuntu includes the very best translations and accessibility infrastructure that the free software community has to offer. Ubuntu CDs contain only free software applications; we encourage you to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.

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See it in action...

Installing Ubuntu 7.10 under Virtual PC 2007

Very useful article, about this effort.
http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/installing-ubuntu-710-under-virtual-pc-2007/

Also an explanation about create non Windows virtual machine
http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2006/09/20/virtual-pc-step-by-step/

Enjoy!

Coding tools for Mono

Recently I made some ASPX pages for run on Linux, for now, using Mono 1.1.x. So one recommendation is use Visual Studio 2003 or ASP.Web Matrix (a legend), as IDE.

ASP.Web Matrix is a very useful and lite IDE
ASP.Web Matrix, Features and Download

In case you are coding for Mono 1.2.x, Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Web Developer Express, are some alternative.
Visual Web Develeper Express, Features and Download

I read these articles before:
Welcome to the Microsoft .NET Framework SDK QuickStart Tutorials
Presentación de los tutoriales del SDK de .Net Framework (Spanish)

Good Coding.

DNN Custom Module

I recently developed a DNN Custom Module; by the way it doesn't very difficult. It's very explained. Basically, you use an ASCX and invoke a DNN's DAL Libraries for perform the data extraction.

I read this article before:
http://www.adefwebserver.com/DotNetNukeHELP/DNN_Module4/

Open Sources in C#

All open sources as you would imagine in C#. It's like a directory, in addition you could suggest other projects.

http://csharp-source.net/