Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems

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Desktop Chapter Resources

Submitted by John Locke on Sun, 05/23/2004 - 15:47

Books

    Moving From Windows To Linux, by Chuck Easttom, Charles River Media, 2003.
    Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye! by Marcel Gagne, Addison-Wesley, 2003

Articles

    Shankland, Stephen, "HP, Linux snag DreamWorks deal," C|Net News.com, January 30, 2002.
    "SourceForge Sitewide update," email sent to SourceForge.net subscribers, July 24, 2003.

Software

    Microsoft Office, commercial office suite
    Sun StarOffice, commercial office suite
    OpenOffice.org, open source office suite based on StarOffice
    Mozilla, open source web browsers and email readers
    Cygwin, open source Unix environment for Windows
    Knoppix, bootable Linux distribution
    KDE, graphical desktop for Linux
    GNOME, graphical desktop for Linux
    Evolution, personal information management email program like Outlook
    Koffice, KDE-based office suite
    Pan, Newsgroup reader for GNOME
    Adobe Photoshop, premiere commercial graphic editor,
    The GIMP, open source graphic editor similar to Photoshop
    Qcad, open source CAD program
    Dia, open source diagram tool
    Kivio, open source diagram tool for KDE
    Scribus, open source desktop publishing tool
    LaTeX, document publishing language
    Docbook, document publishing language
    Helix, an open source media player and server from Real Networks
    Mplayer, an open source multimedia player for Linux
    Wine, Windows program libraries that allow Windows software to run in Linux
    Crossover Office, commercial software built on Wine that installs Windows software in Linux
    VMware, commercial emulation software that allows you to run Windows within Linux, or vice-versa

Web Sites

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If you are a user of business software and are interested in finding out more about open source options for your business or office, you may be a little bit frustrated about the lack of introductory-level information on this topic...

The best single source of such information that I have found so far is John Locke's "Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems." It provides an excellent introduction to the concepts, advantages, and disadvantages behind open-source.

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