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Whether you're a small business owner or the IT Manager /
Director
for a large international corporation, you both probably have one thing
in common... the continuous expense of acquiring and/or updating
software.
Until relatively recently, business freeware either didn't exist or
lacked
the capabilities of commercial software. However, with the advent of
Linux and
companies migrating toward that free operating system, many Linux
freeware (or OpenSource) programs have been replicated for the
Microsoft Windows operating system platform. This is great news for
business... whether
you're planning to transition to Linux or not!
The following table lists some of the best business
freeware
available!
| Application |
Best Freeware (Click
to Download) |
| Word Processor (e.g., MS Word) | OpenOffice
- Writer (best) OR AbiWord |
| Spreadsheet (e.g., MS Excel) | OpenOffice - Calc (best) OR Gnumeric |
| Presentation (e.g., MS PowerPoint) | OpenOffice
- Impress |
| Flowcharting (e.g., MS Visio) | OpenOffice - Draw OR Dia |
| Project Management (e.g., MS Project) | Gantt
Project (simple) OR Open WorkBench (complex) |
| PDF Creator (e.g., Adobe Acrobat) | PDF Creator |
| Internet Browser (w/pop-up suppression) | Firefox
OR Seamonkey |
| E-Mail (e.g., MS Outlook Express) | Thunderbird OR Seamonkey |
| HTML (Web Page) Editor (e.g., MS FrontPage) | N|vu OR Seamonkey |
| XHTML (Web Page) Editor | Amaya |
| Compression (Zip) | FilZip OR Zip Central |
| FTP (File Transfer Protocol) | FileZilla |
| Graphics Design (Advanced) | Gimp (for Windows 32) |
| Desktop Publishing (e.g., Adobe PageMaker) | Scribus |
| Backup | Freebyte Backup |
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