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DAMICON'S LIST OF OPEN SOFTWARE

This List of Open Software is comprised largely of open-source packages. Most people who review the list below are surprised by the quantity and depth of open-source software. Many of us think of Linux when we hear "open source". While Linux is a great example of the open-source process, it is a small segment of the movement. Many open-source applications are available for Microsoft Windows and the Apple Macintosh.

Take a tour of open-source software by following some of the links below. You'll be amazed! To learn more about how DAMICON can help you navigate the open-source landscape, visit our Open Software Program page.

Commercial Software Category	Open-Source Equivalent
AntiVirus Tools (eg. Norton, McAfee)	No open-source tools recommended Use Grisoft AVG or AntiVir
Application Servers (eg. IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic)	Enhydra Geronimo JBoss JOnAS Tomcat (servlet container) Zope
Asset Management (eg. Intuit, Peregrine, Remedy)	IRM OCS Inventory
Backup Utilities (eg. CA ARCserve, Legato, Veritas)	Amanda BackupPC Bacula Rsync
BioInformatics (multiple highly specialized vendors)	Open BioInformatics Foundation OpenClinica OpenInformatics
Business Graphics (eg. Microsoft Visio)	Dia Kivio OpenOffice Draw StarOffice Draw Xfig
CD / DVD Burning (eg. Adaptec RecordNow, Roxio CD Creator)	ECLiPt Roaster X-CD-Roast
Configuration Management (eg. Rational ClearCase, Visual SourceSafe)	Arch CVS OpenCM PRCS RCS Subversion
Content Management Systems (eg. Documentum, Interwoven, Vignette)	Alfresco Bricolage CPS eZ publish CMS KnowledgebasePublisher Lenya Magnolia TYPO3 Xaraya
Content Management Systems - Web	Bika LIMS DotNetNuke Drupal Joomla! Mambo Midgard OpenCMS opensourceCMS PHP-Nuke phpWebSite Plone PostNuke
CRM Applications (eg. Microsoft CRM, Siebel)	Anteil Compiere ConcourseSuite openCRX SugarCRM vtiger CRM
Database Software (eg. Microsoft Access, SQL Server)	Firebird Gaby Ingres Kexi Knoda MySql Novinyl PostgreSQL Qddb
Database (BI) Tools (eg. Crystal Reports, ERWin, Microsoft Access)	Agata Report BIRT DBDesigner 4 DecisionStudio JasperReports OpenI OpenRPT Pentaho SpagoBI Total Rekall YALE
Desktop Publishing (eg. Microsoft Publisher, Quark Xpress)	Scribus
Directory Servers (eg. Microsoft Active Directory)	OpenLDAP
Disk Imaging (eg. Norton Ghost)	Mondo Partition Image
Document Management (eg. Open Text)	Contineo KnowledgeTree OpenKM Owl
Email Applications (eg. Microsoft Outlook Express)	KMail Mozilla and Thunderbird Sylpheed Ximian Evolution
Email List Manager	Mailman MajorDomo PHPlist
Email Servers - POP and SMTP (eg. Microsoft Exchange)	Exim qmail InterNetNews James Postfix SendMail SquirrelMail Zimbra
Email Servers - IMAP	Courier IMAP Cyrus IMAP Scalix UW IMAP
ERP and Financial Software (eg. Oracle, SAP, Intuit QuickBooks)	Compiere GNUCash GNU Enterprise NOLA Open for Business Openbravo OpenMFG SQL Ledger Tiny ERP TurboCASH webERP
File Compression (eg. PKzip, WinZip)	7-zip bzip2 gzip
Flash Viewers (eg. Macromedia Flash)	Flash for other OS's
Forums, Blogs (Weblogs), Bulletin Boards and Wikis	DokuWiki phpBB Pivot Roller Thingamablog WordPress YaBB Yet Another Forum.net
Graphics and Image Editors (eg. Adobe Illustrator, PhotoShop)	CinePaint GIMP ImageMagick Inkscape K-3D Karbon Krita
Groupware (eg. Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes)	dotProject Horde Kolab Lucane Mimerdesk OpenGroupware Open-Xchange phpCollab phpGroupWare PHProjeckt TUTOS
Help Desk (eg. BMC Remedy, FrontPage Heat, Intuit Track-It)	Bugzilla Information Resource Manager OneOrZero phpSupport php Support Tickets RT: Request Tracker
HTML Editors (eg. DreamWeaver, FrontPage, HomeSite)	Bluefish Mozilla Composer Nvu Quanta Plus
Instant Messaging (eg. AIM, MSN, Yahoo!)	Ayttm GnomeICU Kopete Licq Pidgin
Integrated Dev Environments (eg. Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual Studio)	Anjuta Eclipse GLADE GNU Compiler Collection GNU Project Debugger KDevelop NetBeans XEmacs
Learning (or Course) Management System	Docebo Moodle Sakai
Modeling Tools (eg. IBM Rational Rose, CA AllFusion)	ArgoUML StarUML
Music Playing / Editing (eg. iTunes, Sound Forge, Cool Edit)	Amarok Audacious Audacity Banshee GLAME Helix
Network Diagramming and Monitoring	Cacti Etherape JFFNMS Kaboodle MRTG ntop RRDtool Snort (intrusion detection) Wireshark Zenoss
Network Management Tools (eg. HP OpenView, Microsoft SMS)	BO2K Hyperic HQ Nagios OpenNMS OpenQRM Webmin ZipTie
Office Productivity Suites (eg. Microsoft Office)	GNOME Office KOffice OpenOffice StarOffice
Operating Environments (eg. Microsoft Windows, Linux, VMWare)	freeBSD freeDOS Linux NetBSD OpenBSD OpenSolaris (Sun) Samba (file/print services) VirtualBox (virtual machine) Wine (Windows emulator) Xen (virtual machine)
PDF File Viewer and Creator (eg. Adobe Acrobat)	Evince okular GhostScript PDFCreator
Personal Financial Managers (eg. Microsoft Money, Intuit Quicken)	GNUCash Grisbi jGnash KMyMoney
Personal Information Managers (eg. Microsoft Outlook)	Aethera KDE-PIM Linux Organizer TreeLine TuxCards Ximian Evolution
Photo Album Manager (or Photo Organizer)	digiKam
Portal Servers (eg. Microsoft Sharepoint, Plumtree, Vignette)	Gluecode (built on open source) GridSphere JBoss Portal Liferay Portal Metadot
Presentation Software (eg. Microsoft Powerpoint)	OpenOffice Impress StarOffice Impress
Privacy (eg. Pretty Good Privacy)	AxCrypt GnuPP GPG TrueCrypt
Programming Languages	Perl PHP Python Ruby
Project Management and Collaboration (eg. Microsoft Project)	Achievo GanttProject GanttPV NetOffice Open Workbench OpenProj Outreach Project Tool Planner TUTOS
Remote Access (eg. Symantec pcAnywhere or VPN appliances)	OpenVPN rdesktop Stunnel tinc UltraVNC VNC - Virtual Network Computing
Security (eg. firewalls, scanners)	Firestarter (firewall) IPCop (firewall) Nessus (scanner) Nikto (scanner) Nmap (scanner) OpenSSH (secure communications) Paros (proxy) SmoothWall (firewall)
Spam Filters (eg. MailWasher, SpamEater)	Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy MailScanner POPFile SpamAssassin SpamBayes
Spreadsheets (eg. Microsoft Excel)	Gnumeric OpenOffice Calc StarOffice Calc
Telephone Systems - VOIP / PBX / FAX Servers	Asterisk PBX HylaFAX (fax server) OpenPBX SER PBX SIPfoundry PBX Yate
Terminal Server (eg. Microsoft Windows Terminal Server)	Linux Terminal Server Project
Test Tools (eg. IBM Rational, Mercury Interactive, Segue)	Ant Apache JMeter Load Tester JUnit Testing Framework Open-Source Test Tools List
Text Editors (eg. Microsoft Notepad)	Emacs gedit gnotepad+ JEdit Vim
Text File Merging (eg. Araxis Merge, Microsoft WinDiff)	WinMerge
Video Editing	Avidemux Blender Jahshaka Kino LiVES VirtualDub
Video Players (WinDVD, PowerDVD, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer)	Kaffeine MPlayer RealPlayer for other OS's Totem xine
Virtual Meetings (eg. Microsoft NetMeeting / Messenger)	GnomeMeeting
Web Browsers (eg. Microsoft Internet Explorer)	Galeon Konqueror Mozilla Firefox Opera
Web and FTP Servers (eg. Microsoft IIS)	Apache HTTP Server FileZilla ProFTPD Squid Proxy and Cache squidGuard Access Controller
Word Processors (eg. Microsoft Word)	AbiWord OpenOffice Writer StarOffice Writer

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