Whatever applications your business needs - whether it is a word processing solution, accounting software, customer relationship management software or website applications - you'll find it easy to find an open source version. Numerous sites such as SourceForge act as central repositories for open source applications, and are good places to look for new software.
It is important to remember that the quality of what is available may vary. It's a good idea to look for software with a lot of users, as there'll be a large community who can provide help and support. Popular software also makes it likely that there will be commercial support and training services.
Some popular open source software options include:
Office software
- Abiword - word processing tool
- Alfresco - enterprise content management system
- Joomla - enterprise content management system
- Open Office.org - business productivity suite
- Drupal - enterprise content management system
- Chandler - contact management and collaboration
- SugarCRM - customer relationship management
- vTiger - customer relationship management
- MySQL - database
- Ingres - database
Operating systems
- GNU/Linux (various versions or distributions include Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu and Red Hat) - operating system
- OpenSolaris - operating system
- FreeBSD - operating system
- Android - mobile phone platform
Internet-related applications
- Juice - podcasting
- Mozilla Firefox - web browser
- Mozilla Thunderbird - email client
- Pidgin - instant messaging
- Zimbra - email and collaboration server
- Apache - web server
- Zope - web application server
- PHP - web application platform
- Wordpress - blog hosting platform
- MediaWiki - information sharing platform
IT security
- Smoothwall - firewall and security tools
- Wireshark (aka Ethereal) - security application
- KeePass - password management
- Clam AV - antivirus software
Images/multi-media
- GIMP - image processing/graphics editing
- VLC - multimedia file playback
- Ogg - open video and audio codecs
Development tools
- Ruby on Rails - rapid web application development
- Eclipse - integrated development environment
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