allocPSA (http://www.allocpsa.org/) is an open source, on-line (ie, web-based) Professional Services Automation system. allocPSA provides a suite of integrated applications designed for organisations which provide services to clients.

Zenoss Inc., the corporate sponsor of Zenoss Core, today announced the release of the 2010 Open Source Systems Management Survey.

Free and Open Source Project Management Software: A project management software is a program that can help apply knowledge, techniques, skills, and tools for planning and controlling resources, costs and schedules to meet the requirements of a particular project. It includes integrated functions such as calendars, charts, budget management, scheduling, and quality management and documentation.

So what happened to open source as a business? There was a wave of “commercial open source” companies that were going to change the world, including SugarCRM, Alfresco, Jasper, Pentaho, and ActiveGrid, a company I started in 2003 to bring open source software into businesses.

KnowledgeTree, which provides commercial open source document management software, has announced the release of version 3.61 of its flagship solution, and also version 1.0 of its new Microsoft Office add-in.

Best Free and Open Source CRM Software: Customer relationship management (CRM) is a business strategy for managing and understanding clients and sales prospects to help enhance customer satisfaction and thus increase profit and reduce operational costs.

Open source management applications disrupted the market a few years back and some of the pioneers in the technology area continue to progress and grow their business.

Open source software and widespread instrumentation have lowered the costs of producing IT management software. Open source systems management companies are using the free nature of an open source product, coupled with the cheap distribution the Web enables, to boot-strap their businesses.

MODx, an open source content management system (CMS) and PHP application framework comparable to WordPress or Movable Type, recently won Packt Publishing's Most Promising Open Source CMS award. The application works with either Apache or Internet Information Services (IIS) and supports almost any browser.