Pretty good Open Source alternatives for Proprietary Products
February 19, 2009 Alternatives, Applications, Open Source, Utilities
We couldn’t thank the Open Source Community or Apache and Mozilla for their initiatives on Open Source that helped shape the Software World well enough. Adding up to that gratitude or vast collection of Open Source products that are available as alternatives to Proprietary Products. Also, please do not think Open Source means free software. Many People has that misconception by logic. An Open Source can be free to modify but has some fee to use. There are commercial and non-commercial Open Source applications to be precise. Here, I’m listing some of the very good alternatives that helps you to reduce your cost as well as troubles with a proprietary closed soure product.
- Microsoft Visual Studio – SharpDevelop, MonoDevelop
- Web Development IDEs – Eclipse, Aptana
- Microsoft .NET Framework – Mono
- Microsoft SQL Server – MySQL, PostgreSQL, FireBird
- Microsoft Project – OpenProj, Open Workbench
- Microsoft Visio – Dia, StarUML
- Microsoft Publisher – Scribus
- Microsoft Office – OpenOffice
- Microsoft Office Outlook/Outlook Express – Evolution / Mozilla Thunderbird
- Microsoft Exchange Server – Zimbra, OpenXchange
- Microsoft SharePoint – Alfresco, Deki Wiki, DotNetNuke, PHPNuke
- Mercury LoadRunner – OpenSTA
- Adobe Flash – OpenLaszlo
- Adobe Acrobat – PDFCreator
- Adobe Photoshop – Paint.NET, CinePaint, GIMP, GIMPShop
- Adobe Illustrator – Inkspace
- Adobe Premier/After Effects – Avidemux / Jahshaka
- BusinessObjects Crystal Reports – JasperReports, DataVision, OpenRPT
- Microsoft Dynamics – SugarCRM
- Microsoft Money / Quicken – GNUCash, Grisbi
- MindManager – FreeMind
- WinZip – 7zip
- Beyond Compare (File/Directory) Comparison – WinMerge
- CodeSmith (Easy Code Generator) – MyGeneration
- Icon Editor – IcoFX
- FTP Client – FileZilla
There are much more than this list is available. But this is a start to remove on famous proprietary softwares from your arsenal.
