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 Rate and comment on open source products at osalt.com
As of today, you are now able to contribute with rating and comments for each of all open source products listed at osalt.com.
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 Open source alternatives for educational and science software
Osalt.com launches a new category for educational and science related software. This new category will list free open source software alternatives to proprietary products.
The software listed will... |
 IBM Rational Rose
Rational Rose is a family of UML (Unified Modeling Language) products from IBM. Each of the products are either targeted different developer roles or different platforms/programming languages. For... Alternatives: StarUML ArgoUML
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MindManager 6
MindManager is the most popular mind mapping on the market. For brainstorming, capturing ideas and then analyzing all of the collected information. It can be used for all projects from newsletters,... Alternatives: FreeMind XMind
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Alfresco 2.1
Alfresco (Italian for "outdoors") is an open source, less expensive alternative to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. The plentiful ECM (enterprise content management) features of Alfresco rival the... |
Microsoft Word 2003
Word is the number one most widely used word processor - home users, academic institutions and a huge number of enterprises all use Microsoft Word. Word has continued to evolve through the years and... Alternatives: OpenOffice Writer AbiWord KWord
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Osalt.com now in Spanish
(read this announcement in Spanish below)
The popular Open source directory Osalt.com (Open Source as Alternative) is now available in Spanish
- How do you avoid paying for a Final Cut or... |
Archimedes
Archimedes is a computer aided design (CAD) solution focusing on architectural design. While the current version of Archimedes may not be mature enough for all - this project is very promising. It... |
Adobe InDesign CS3
When it comes to desktop publishing Adobe's InDesign is a perfect package. The integration to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator makes it a powerful tool for create professional layout and designs.... Alternatives: Scribus
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vtiger CRM
VTiger CRM (customer relationship management) is software intended for small and medium sized businesses that have a need to manage their customer base, customer service, marketing department and... |
Microsoft Excel 2010
The lack of competition for spreadsheet applications and the massive deployment of Microsoft Office makes Excel the most used application of its type. Apart from basic spreadsheet features - Excel... Alternatives: Gnumeric OpenOffice Calc
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OpenRPT 3.0
OpenRPT is an open source report generator. It consists of two parts: OpenRPT and RPTrender. The OpenRPT part is the graphical user interface for designing reports and has a simple interface similar... |
SolidWorks
SolidWorks 3D CAD is designed to let ideas be transformed quickly into products. Its powerful toolsets and virtual prototyping generates manufacture-ready drawings in record time with accuracy and... Alternatives: QCad Community Edition BRL-CAD Archimedes FreeCAD
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7-Zip 4.57
7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio. It supports the following formats for packing/unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR - and the following for unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH,... |
Microsoft Active Directory
Microsoft Active Directory ships as a component of Windows Server. Active Directory lets you manage many different type of components in your enterprise e.g. users. Microsoft Active Directory... Alternatives: 389 Directory Server Apache Directory Server
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Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0
Among the top 3 anti-virus products on the market you will surely find Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Well known for its outstanding detection rates Kaspersky is a sure pick when it comes to multilevel... Alternatives: ClamWin Clam AntiVirus Winpooch
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Xming 7.3
Xming is a small and fast X-Windows Server for Microsoft Windows. But even though it is small - it is still simple to use and has the full set of features your would see in commercial products. Used... |
Microsoft Powerpoint 2003
Powerpoint is the most used presention software on the market. It comes as part of the Microsoft Office suite as one of the core applications. Powerpoint has many advanced features but is not always... Alternatives: OpenOffice Impress KPresenter
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KToon 0.9
KToon is an open source 2d vector animation toolkit with focus on on the cartoon industry. All of the features you would expect of such a products is there: drawing tools, layers, keyframes, time... |
TOra 2.0
TOra is an open source database administration and sql tool for Oracle. With TOra you can perform virtually any administrative task on your Oracle database servers - anything from user and security... |
Corel PowerTRACE X4
As part of Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite, Corel PowerTRACE handles the complex task of converting bitmap images into perfect vector drawing for further processing. Now all old drawings and even... Alternatives: Potrace
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CyberLink PowerDVD 9
PowerDVD was one of the first software based DVD players on the market. It gained enormous momentum by being bundled with many DVD-ROM drive manufactures products - and today offers many more... Alternatives: VLC media player MPlayer
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FileZilla
FileZilla is an open source ftp client, which also supports secure ftp (sftp). FileZilla is built to be a fast but yet feature rich ftp client. Like many of the commercial products FileZilla has a... |
FOG
FOG is an imaging solution for Vista and Windows XP that makes use of some open-source tools and a PHP based web interface. It is unique in that it requires no boot disks or CDs, using TFTP and PXE... |
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
As backend for Microsoft products that require a database - Microsoft SQL Server is available to make integration and development simple and easy. SQL Server is today considered one of the top 3... Alternatives: MySQL PostgreSQL Firebird Ingres 2006 Community Edition
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Autodesk Maya 8
Maya is the best known 3d modeling and animation products for professionels. It's high quality rendering combined with it's advanced modeling features makes it a unique tool for people working in the... Alternatives: Blender
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Microsoft Office 2010
Office is a collection of Microsoft's business applications including: Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Publisher, Visio and Powerpoint. The suite offers good integration between all of its products -... Alternatives: OpenOffice NeoOffice
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Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (assp) 1.3
Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) is an open source anti-spam solution that utilizes advanced as well as more common ways to avoid spam. ASSP also takes care of email transferred viruses. Being a server... |
Cognos Business Intelligence 8
Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) provides analysis, reporting, dashboards, scorecarding and business event management. Each of these are actually stand-alone products building on Cognos'... Alternatives: Pentaho Open BI Suite
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OpenVZ
OpenVZ is a great alternative to standard virtualization offerings on the market, that unlike most other products only offers operating system level virtualization - and only on Linux. However, this... |
Cooperative Linux 0.7
coLinux is an extremely interesting new approach to virtualization allowing you to run Linux parallel to your Windows platform. coLinux approaches the experimenting Linux novice - who does not... |
Sibelius 6
Sebelius is notation software for students, composers, educators, arrangers and musicians of all disciplines. There are new improvements and features that make Sebelius a one-stop composing and... Alternatives: MuseScore
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MySQL 5.0
Increasingly growing market shares caused by a good reputation and of course the fact that it is completely free of charge - makes MySQL the most widely deployed open source database. For most web... |
Helix Player 11
Helix Player is an open source edition of the media player - Real Player, but is only available for unix platforms - mainly Linux. The application is part of the Helix DNA Platform which is a... |
Adobe GoLive CS2
GoLive satisfies your every requirement when building and designing advanced websites. Using CSS is now done simply and visually - through GoLive. As with all other Adobe Creative Suite products -... Alternatives: Nvu SeaMonkey Bluefish Quanta Plus KompoZer Aptana Amaya
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PostgreSQL 8.3
PostgreSQL is a relational database system (RDBMS). Considered one of the most advanced open source databases on the market - PostgreSQL is a tough competitor for the top commercial database... |
Ghost Solution Suite 2.5
Ghost is easy to use, high performance software used to deploy operating system images to servers and workstations as well as management of both Linux and Windows systems. It's so well known and... Alternatives: Clonezilla FOG
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McAfee VirusScan
McAfee is one of the oldest companies in the anti-virus business. However, McAfee VirusScan also provides protection against spyware and adware. Protects when your are surfing the internet, checking... Alternatives: ClamWin Winpooch
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Ventrilo 3.0
Ventrilo is a scalable VoIP designed to solve problems with packet loss, uptime, network latency and administration. Although Ventrilo is popular with gamers, it is good for home and personal use... Alternatives: Mumble
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Sunbelt iHateSpam 4.0
iHateSpam is one of the most efficient anti-spam products on the market. It detects and removes almost all spam that tries to enter you e-mail inbox. Phising attempts are also rejected to avoid you... Alternatives: Thunderbird Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (assp)
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Photoshop plug-ins for Gimp - now also for Linux
In March, a Photoshop plug-in interface (Photoshop 8bf filters loader) was developed, which made it possible for you to use all your favourite Photoshop plug-ins in Gimp on - not only Windows - but... |
aMSN - a simple MSN clone
Here on osalt.com we recieve many hits for people looking for alternatives to MSN Messenger. And while many of the alternatives we present are valid and great products - only one of them strives to... |
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Open source alternatives for educational and science software 
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