Comments on: Open (Source) Anyone? List of Useful Open Source Alternatives to Applications you pay for

By: Siim

Siim — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:47:01 +0000

No business software here? I won’t take any more space either. To who is interested, here’s a nice list that compiles all the big OSS enterprise software here: http://www.office123.net/blog/2010/01/31/8-the-top-10-open-source-business-applications

By: Tatang Sulaeman

Tatang Sulaeman — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:06:22 +0000

If you feel like an artist with the power of Photoshop and want an alternate open source version hunt for Gimpshop.2.2.11. It’s a hack made on top of Gimp that creates an UI similar to that of Photoshop, including layouts, icons and brushes. So getting around is easy. But, there’s a downside. It may not have all the features of Photoshop as Gimpshop is based on the Gimp feature set.

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:59:24 +0000

IrfanView is again not OSS.
Not sure about Winmerge

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:58:52 +0000

Tally ain’t open source

But it’s good yeah

By: Vidhu

Vidhu — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:05:38 +0000

Thanks @Sudeep. The above mentioned utilities are the ones we tend to use almost daily.

By: Sudeep

Sudeep — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:55:35 +0000

Some more that I use and are not mentioned here

Filezilla – For FTP related actions
IrfanView – Image Manipulation
Winmerge – Comaring files/directories
7-Zip – Zipping utility
Notepad++ – Notepad Replacement

By: Ashish

Ashish — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:21:01 +0000

And MS is opening up too! Awesomest!
On a serious note, sponsors have nothing to do with content – we do exercise our own freedom. Period!

By: Keshava Ram

Keshava Ram — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:15:59 +0000

Tally Solutions is extremely popular among small Businesses for Accounting in India. Is GNU Cash the right alternative? Thanks.

By: vidhu

vidhu — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:14:42 +0000

Ah… All views expressed are readers and visitors own. We at Pluggd.in are committed at educating folks (and selves) about options and opportunities, in what ever form they exist.

Regards.

By: Rishi

Rishi — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:06:01 +0000

..and MS sponsors this website.. awesome!

By: vidhu

vidhu — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:45:06 +0000

@KV Shukla – Ahh… I can understand the emotions.
@Pavan, @Mahesh, @Piyush – Thanks for the inputs/comprehensive list. It will surely be of great help to all folks out here.

I really appreciate your response.

By: mahesh

mahesh — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:12:11 +0000

For full fledged list of Open Source Alternative Drop in http://www.osalt.com

By: Pavan

Pavan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:47:55 +0000

zoho has all their business apps with a basic plan which is just free for life time.

By: K.v.shukla

K.v.shukla — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:06:21 +0000

yeah go on guys…bring the Dinosaaur called MS down..

By: Piyush

Piyush — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:41:20 +0000

Openoffice(office), Thunderbird(email), blender(3d stuff), mplayer and vlc(multimedia),