What application or product missing in Open Source/commercial world in your view ?
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Hi there,
At least from a decade, wide range of applications/ products have been launched in both Open Source and commercial space like Chats,Forum platforms, ERP, CRM, Assets management, Ticketing system, CMS etc. (I want to exclude OSes, general servers/services like web, dhcp, dns, emails etc.)
And mostly in Open Source part, every organization started with very few peoples, now grown to hundreds.
1. In your view, what kind of applications/products are missing or require wide development or enhancement ?
2. If you have team to do so, what application/product you would like to build ?
Appreciate your feedback !!
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An HTML5 based Hyper-V Management platform with VM web-console, similar to Kimchi-Project, but for Hyper-V.
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A good RDS replacement.
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@tim_g said in What application or product missing in Open Source/commercial world in your view ?:
An HTML5 based Hyper-V Management platform with VM web-console, similar to Kimchi-Project, but for Hyper-V.
The open source world handling the gaps in the closed source world
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@tim_g said in What application or product missing in Open Source/commercial world in your view ?:
An HTML5 based Hyper-V Management platform with VM web-console, similar to Kimchi-Project, but for Hyper-V.
I felt same, as I have used XenServer with XenCenter and went to Hyper-V to have a look, and it's not straight forward, it needs tweaking and bit PowerShell knowledge (which I don't have), still not using Hyper-V because of not easy like XenCenter
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@openit said in What application or product missing in Open Source/commercial world in your view ?:
@tim_g said in What application or product missing in Open Source/commercial world in your view ?:
An HTML5 based Hyper-V Management platform with VM web-console, similar to Kimchi-Project, but for Hyper-V.
I felt same, as I have used XenServer with XenCenter and went to Hyper-V to have a look, and it's not straight forward, it needs tweaking and bit PowerShell knowledge (which I don't have), still not using Hyper-V because of not easy like XenCenter
Have you tried Xen Orchestra?
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@dustinb3403 said in What application or product missing in Open Source/commercial world in your view ?:
@openit said in What application or product missing in Open Source/commercial world in your view ?:
@tim_g said in What application or product missing in Open Source/commercial world in your view ?:
An HTML5 based Hyper-V Management platform with VM web-console, similar to Kimchi-Project, but for Hyper-V.
I felt same, as I have used XenServer with XenCenter and went to Hyper-V to have a look, and it's not straight forward, it needs tweaking and bit PowerShell knowledge (which I don't have), still not using Hyper-V because of not easy like XenCenter
Have you tried Xen Orchestra?
For Hyper-V ?
I know for XenServer, there are good options (XenCenter and Xen Orchestra). Here I am talking about Hyper-V with no good options.
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@openit said in What application or product missing in Open Source/commercial world in your view ?:
@dustinb3403 said in What application or product missing in Open Source/commercial world in your view ?:
@openit said in What application or product missing in Open Source/commercial world in your view ?:
@tim_g said in What application or product missing in Open Source/commercial world in your view ?:
An HTML5 based Hyper-V Management platform with VM web-console, similar to Kimchi-Project, but for Hyper-V.
I felt same, as I have used XenServer with XenCenter and went to Hyper-V to have a look, and it's not straight forward, it needs tweaking and bit PowerShell knowledge (which I don't have), still not using Hyper-V because of not easy like XenCenter
Have you tried Xen Orchestra?
For Hyper-V ?
I know for XenServer, there are good options (XenCenter and Xen Orchestra). Here I am talking about Hyper-V with no good options.
With XenServer, Xen Orchestra is only for XS.
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@tim_g said in What application or product missing in Open Source/commercial world in your view ?:
An HTML5 based Hyper-V Management platform with VM web-console, similar to Kimchi-Project, but for Hyper-V.
Does it matter if it hosted on a Windows and/or Linux? Because PowerShell will be the key. On Windows, the necessary PowerShell modules is already available to make it possible to manage Hyper-V.
I found this years ago while looking for an web based Hyper-V Manager. Its pretty basic but it's possible.
http://veerapen.blogspot.com/2015/03/free-hyper-v-web-management-tool.html -
Tagging bunch of people to get better ideas
@JaredBusch @Minion-Queen @stacksofplates @Dashrender @Mike-Davis @Texkonc @bigbear @Ambarishrh @aaronstuder @Danp @Emad-R @thwr @guyinpv @wirestyle22 @Oksana @olivier
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Real ERP, because what's available now is really basic and lacking a lot of advanced functionality. Another are professional CAD/3D and PLM applications, something that can compete with Autodesk, Siemens or Solidworks.
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An All in one IT Service Platform should include:
CRM
Helpdesk
Time Clock
Project Management
Reporting that means something for a manager
Remote Support
Monitoring
Documentation Database that is actually searchable (not a freaking useless wiki) -
In the web development world, I'm still searching for an adequate workflow for working on other peoples' websites.
In other words, I need to turn any website, hosted on any host, with any number of server configurations, into a dev/staging environment somewhere else for dev/testing. Then convert that back into the live site, and include backups along the way.
But beyond that I need to often download the dev/staging site to my local machine so that local development IDEs can work on the source code better. But the files have to continue to be updated on the staging site. Typically over FTP still.
But not only that, other people might also need to work on staging, so we don't want to overwrite each other. So what is this? Some kind of constant Git-like code merging has to happen at all times.This kind of workflow is easy enough when you just work on your own site and you picked the host and you run the right tools and software and plugins or whatever. But it absolutely sucks when every job is a different host and different setup and different sized sites. One site might have a gig in pictures. It's not necessary to pull those down anywhere, but sometimes it kinda is.
And other times the client continues updating the live site even if it takes days or weeks to develop the new stuff, and you don't want to copy back the dev work and overwrite the new stuff on the live site!There are so many little gotchas it's unbelievable, and very hard to make all this work, especially in an automated way. Sometimes it takes me hours to set up a proper dev environment and get all the files copied over. Then you deal with https issues, licensing of plugins that don't want to work on other domains, environment configurations that might have to change for localhost or staging servers but can't be copied back to live. The list goes on and on.
Some kind of ultimate site development workflow tool would be on my wishlist. And it can't involve demanding I move to different hosts, use different CMSes, etc. It has to work around whatever limits might be there.
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Remote desktop management
patch management solution that pulls patches for multiple vendors
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@mike-davis said in What application or product missing in Open Source/commercial world in your view ?:
Remote desktop management
patch management solution that pulls patches for multiple vendors
Chocolatey does that in the Windows world. APT, YUM and DNF do that in the Linux world. The biggest problem is that too many products are not in Chocolatey, you can add more but have to run your own repos.
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@marcinozga said in What application or product missing in Open Source/commercial world in your view ?:
Real ERP, because what's available now is really basic and lacking a lot of advanced functionality. Another are professional CAD/3D and PLM applications, something that can compete with Autodesk, Siemens or Solidworks.
Ya I don't get why the ERPs are that bad.
As for CAD, I'd be surprised if that ever happens. The costs are so great with those that I can't believe there would be a real competitor for other CAD software.
Ive used FreeCAD but it's parametric. And I've never seen anything to compete with higher end stuff like ANSYS, ABAQUS, COMSOL, etc.
