Preferred Technologies

BEST PRACTICE:  Maintain a local Preferred Technologies list.

Use of common technologies creates synergy for development groups and reduces support complexity and cost. A technology choice can be subjective and maintaining a list of preferred technologies gives developers and purchasing agents guidance.

UNL Preferred Technologies

The following are the ITS preferred choices for the UNL environment:

• Preferred operating systems
  • For an up to date list of server and desktop operating systems, ITS maintains a 'supported standards' page. 
  • For a list of Microsoft products' lifecycle, see http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-us
• Preferred browsers
  • As we move forward and browsers become more compliant to the standards promulgated by the W3C, we should move toward support for "all modern, standards-compliant browsers." In the interim, ITS maintains a 'supported browsers' page.
• Preferred code platforms
  • J2EE (Enterprise systems)
  • PHP (Enterprise systems, web interfaces)
  • .NET (business service applications)
• Preferred database platforms
  • MySQL (version?)
  • MS SQL Server
• Preferred web platforms
  • Apache
  • IIS
• Preferred combined platforms
  • LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
  • WAMP - Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP
  • WINS - Windows, IIS, .Net, SQL Server
• Preferred development tools
  • Eclipse
  • Rational Application Developer
  • Visual Studio
• Preferred Extensions/Frameworks
  • PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository)
  • jQuery
  • Zend
• Preferred Versioning Environment
  • git.unl.edu (Private or Internal projects)
  • github.com (Community Source/Open Source projects)
• Preferred Authentication Methods
  • Single Sign On
  • • CAS (UNL login)
    • Shibboleth
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  • HTML5
• Preferred integration tools
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