Why Open Source ?

Microsoft technology comes with a huge cost.open source technology today  offers reliability and security apart from user friendliness. More and more organization are adopting open source for their projects. Its affordable and reliable. And gone are those days when there was no adequate help for open source software. Today you will see lot of forums, helplines, and online experts for counseling and troubleshooting. In India Kerala is ahead in using open source platform in Government projects

(http://www.itmission.kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81:free-and-open-source-software&catid=35:ksitm-e-governace-projects&Itemid=67
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Build Your Own Intranet Email Server using open source tools

One can build robust Email server using hmailserver squirrelmail on xampp platform. Xampp should be up for this. I found this very good video explaining total setup

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Develope your own Forum easily

One can develop own forum  using phpbb. One of the best open source PHP application. You will wonder many of the popular forum are using it ex  http://forums.pcquest.com/forum/  . You can use it for sharing information during any mission period eg Election / Census /Project Implementation  for the common problems and solutions thereof. So try and enjoy. you will need XAMP server up and running for this.