92. Collabtive This cloud-based groupware bills itself as an open-source alternative to Active Collab and Basecamp. Capabilities include project management, messaging and instant messaging, file management, time tracking, and role-based user management. Operating System: OS Independent. 93. cyn.in Cyn.in sets itself apart by including social networking functionality such as micro-blogging (think Twitter), instant discussions, and a live activity feed for the desktop, as well as more traditional groupware features like wikis, blogs, file sharing, content management, calendar, etc. It's available in the free community edition, in a hosted SaaS version, or as a commercially supported virtual appliance. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X. 94. Group-Office Group-Office online groupware includes a calendar, file sharing, basic CRM capabilities, and e-mail. The fee-based professional and hosted versions add project management and synchronization with mobile devices. Operating System: OS Independent. 95. IGSuite IGSuite claims basic personal information manager (PIM), CMS, CRM, and ERP functionality, but its really best categorized as groupware. The Web-based app includes Webmail, calendaring, to do lists, file sharing, chat, and more. Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix. 96. OpenGoo/Feng Office Calling itself an "open source Web Office," OpenGoo makes it easy to collaborate on text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, scheduling, e-mail, etc. from any browser. Feng Office is the fee-based professional version that includes support, upgrades, and automatic backup. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X. 97. phpGroupWare Part of the GNU project, phpGroupWare includes more than 50 applications, supports 20 languages, and is used by tens of thousands of people everyday. Capabilities include contact management, e-mail, calendar, content and document management, project management, and an application programming interface. Operating System: Windows, Linux. 98. Simple Groupware Built in sgsML for easy customization, Simple Groupware is a standards-based enterprise-ready groupware application. It offers email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, synchronization with cell phones and Outlook, and full-text search. Plus, it’s simple to install, update, use, and adapt to your needs. Operating System: Windows, Linux 99. TUTOS Short for "The Ultimate Team Organization Software," TUTOS includes a calendar, address manager, bug tracker, file sharing, mailboxes, and time tracking. Operating System: Linux.
100. Elastix Elastix is appliance software for Asterisk-based PBX systems. It combines a lot of the most popular Asterisk tools with a unique interface, utilities, and add-ons for a complete open-source VoIP system. Operating System: OS Independent 101. ePresence Interactive Media Developed at the University of Toronto, ePresence claims to be “the world's first open source webcasting and conferencing solution.” It is designed to support conferences, online meetings, seminars, and demonstrations. Operating System: Windows, Linux 102. Mumble With Mumble, you can easily talk to other players while gaming, and the voices seem to come from the on-screen characters. Plus, the echo cancellation feature means you won’t get those annoying reverberation effects from your microphone picking up the sound from your speakers. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X. Open Source Compression
103. 7-zip 7-zip offers higher than normal compression ratios and supports multiple file formats. However, in order to take advantage of its strong AES-256 encryption capabilities, you'll need to create either 7z or zip files. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X. 104. KGB Archiver One big benefit of using this compression utility is that it encrypts files with AES-256 encryption automatically. It also supports multiple file formats and nine different languages (but not Russian, which seems odd for an app named after the KGB). Operating System: Windows. 105. PeaZip One of the most flexible compression utilities available, PeaZip currently supports more than 90 different archive file formats. It also supports multiple encryption standards and even offers a two-factor authentication option for maximum security. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
106. Alfresco Built by a team that includes one of the co-founders of Documentum, Alfresco also boasts an impressive list of Fortune 500 users. In addition to web content management, it provides document management, collaboration, records management, and image management abilities. Operating System: Windows, Linux. 107. Archon Winner of several awards, Archon simplifies the process of creating a searchable Web site to house archival materials. Administrators can input or edit information via Web forms, and the software automatically uploads and publishes the data. It's currently being used by more than 40 universities, zoos, historical societies, and other institutions. Operating System: OS Independent. 108. BIGACE While BIGACE is used by many smaller organizations, it's multi-site, multi-language, and multi-user capabilities make it a possibility for larger enterprises looking for a Web CMS. Key features include a WYSIWIG editor, templates and stylesheets, and permission management. Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix. 109. Bitweaver Bitweaver's claim to fame is a modular design that lets you pick and choose which features you need. Those features include articles, wikis, image galleries, calendar, user management, and more. Operating System: OS Independent. 110. Daisy CMS Java-based Daisy can be used for Web sites, intranets, product documentation, knowledge bases, and more. It includes both a document repository and a wiki. Operating System: OS Independent. 111. Devproof Portal Devproof includes modules for blogging, articles, downloads, and more that make it easy to set up your own portal. It's easy to use, but not as popular as some of the other content management systems. Operating System: OS Independent. 112. DokuWiki Because it uses plain text files, DokuWiki doesn’t require a database in order to run. It’s simplicity and usability make it ideal for small organizations. Operating System: OS Independent. 113. Drupal Drupal offers a similar, but slightly different feature set than Joomla. Key features include a unique collaborative book tool, role-based permissions, blogging, friendly URLs, and a very active community for support. Operating System: OS Independent 114. Family Connections This app walks beginners through the process of creating a family Web site. It makes it easy to include a photo gallery, message board, calendar, address book, news, recipes, and more on a private site. Operating System: OS Independent 115. Fedora Commons Fedora Commons allows you to manage, preserve, and link different types of digital content. For example, you can use it to create an archive of video, audio, and text files on a particular topic which users can then search or comment on. Operating System: OS Independent. 116. FOSWiki A split from the TWiki project, FOSWiki distinguishes itself with support of embedded macros to enhance content and allow end-users to create their own applications. The Web site includes considerable support for new users, as well as a number of extensions to the basic application. Operating System: OS Independent. 117. Joomla Downloaded nearly 14 million times, Joomla is an incredibly popular content management system. Even if you have very little technical expertise, Joomla can help you keep track of all the pages on your Web site. Operating System: OS Independent 118. Liferay Designed for enterprise users, Liferay includes more than 60 tools for web publishing, content management, collaboration, and social network. In addition, it features an SOA framework, single sign-on, multi-language support, and advanced search and tagging. Operating System: OS Independent. 119. Magnolia Used by governments and Fortune 500 companies, Magnolia is both easy to use and highly flexible. Key features include instant inline editing, role-based user management, full-text search, multi-language support, Java content repository, and unlimited scalability. The commercial Enterprise Edition adds a number of features as well as paid support. Operating System: Windows, Linux. 120. MediaWiki Originally written for Wikipedia, MediaWiki allows collaborative editing on documents within a familiar interface. It was designed to be run on a large server farm and requires Apache, PHP, and MySQL. Operating System: Windows, Linux/Unix, OS X. 121. MindTouch Called the "Best product alternative to Microsoft Sharepoint and IBM Lotus" by Forrester Research, MindTouch offers intuitive wiki collaboration and is used by millions of people around the world. The commercially available Standard and Enterprise editions add desktop productivity tools, database and CRM integration, and other enterprise functionality to the open-source core. Operating System: Windows, Linux. 122. PHP-Nuke This content management tool boasts a large, active user community and numerous add-ons. It provides a complete solution for developing a highly interactive Internet or intranet site. Operating System: Windows, Linux/Unix, OS X. 123. TikiWiki This Groupware/Content Management System supports wikis, forums, blogs, image feeds, newsfeeds, calendars, and much more. It’s won several awards and vast amounts of help are available on the Web site. Operating System: OS Independent 124. TWiki As a structured wiki, TWiki combines the benefits of a wiki with the benefits of a database. It can be used for project management, document management, as a knowledge base, or to collaborate on virtually any type of content for intranets or the Internet. Operating System: OS Independent. 125. TYPO3 Downloaded more than 4 million times, the TYPO3 content management system combines a rich feature set with usability. Key features include multimedia support, detailed user permissions, and scalability. Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix. 126. WebGUI Described as "modular, powerful, secure, and user-friendly," WebGUI makes it easy for small organizations to run very complex Web and intranet sites. It’s currently used by more than 10,000 site owners. Operating System: Windows, Linux/Unix, OS X. 127. XOOPS Written in PHP, the XOOPS content management system makes it easy to create a Web site with dynamic content. The name is short for eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System, and it relies on a MySQL database to organize content. Operating System: OS Independent.
Open Source Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
128. CitrusDB Citrus is a customer care and billing solution aimed at subscription-based products such as Internet service, telecommunications, and consulting. It tracks customer information, service records, custom billing cycles, and support tickets. Operating System: OS Independent. 129. Covide Covide offers web-based groupware and customer relationship management (CRM) in a single package. It can also integrate with PBX systems to provide VoIP services. Operating System: Windows, OS X, Unix. 130. Daffodil CRM Daffodil CRM provides a complete picture of the entire customer lifecycle and includes tools for sales force automation, sales forecasting, efficient opportunity tracking, customer satisfaction, and performance management. The Daffodil site primarily promotes the commercially supported version, but you can download the free, open-source version from SourceForge. Operating System: OS Independent. 131. hipergate CRM Hipergate is a Java-based suite that includes both CRM and groupware collaboration capabilities. Key features include group calendar, discussion forum, FAQ manager, contact management, import from Microsoft Office and Outlook, eCommerce, e-mail and Web site templates, and more. Operating System: OS Independent. 132. openCRX This CRM solution provides account management, price and product management, groupware, and issue tracking capabilities. You can access it through any browser, and it integrates with most ERP and database applications. Operating System: OS Independent. 133. OpenEMM Like phplist (below), OpenEMM offers only e-mail marketing, not full CRM capabilities. However, it does offer advanced reporting capabilities, as well as multi-language support, target group marketing, and an intuitive browser-based interface. Operating System: Windows, Linux. 134. Orange Leap Orange Leap claims to be the first full-featured CRM package aimed at non-profits (in this case, the C in CRM stands for "constituent" not "customer"). It's Web-based and includes profile personalization (to make it easy to tell donors from volunteers), correspondence and payment history, and built-in reporting and scheduling. Operating System: Windows. 135. phplist While it's not a full-featured CRM system like most of the apps in this category, phplist is a very good newsletter manager. Key features include double opt-in subscription management, list segmentation, click tracking, and bounce management. Operating System: Windows, Linux 136. SellWinCRM This CRM tool is designed primarily for your sales force rather than your customer service staff, and includes a phone client that is very helpful for mobile employees. Despite the "Win" in the name this is a multi-platform tool; in this case, "Win" refers to actual sales wins, not Windows. Operating System: OS Independent. 137. SourceTap Like SellWin, SourceTap is also primarily a sales automation tool, though it does include some issue tracking capabilities. In addition to the open-source version, it's available in several commercial versions or as a hosted app. Operating System: Windows, Linux. 138. SugarCRM This award-winning app offers sales force automation, marketing automation, customer support, reporting, and collaboration. In addition to the open-source community edition, it's available in two commercial editions. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris. 139. vtiger CRM Aimed at slightly smaller organizations, vtiger combines sales force automation, marketing automation, customer service, inventory management, calendaring, and activity management. Plug-ins provide interoperability with Outlook and Thunderbird. Operating System: Windows, Linux. 140. XRMS CRM In addition to CRM and sales automation capabilities, XRMS also offers some basic BI functionality, RSS feeds for new records, and computer telephony integration. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
141. Firebird Firebird is a full-featured, SQL-based relational database. It can scale to serve the needs of a large enterprise, and it’s easy to configure and maintain. Operating System: Windows, Linux/Unix, OS X, Solaris. 142. PostgreSQL This object relational database management system bills itself as "the world’s most advanced open source database." PostgreSQL was derived from the Berkeley Postgre DMS, but it replaces the PostQuel query language with a type of SQL. Operating System: Windows, Linux/Unix, OS X, Solaris. Open Source Data Destruction
143. BleachBit Like Eraser (below), BleachBit can completely erase files, but it also includes a number of other features to help protect your privacy and speed up your system. For example, it can erase your cache, remove your browsing history and cookies, clean up junk left by more than 50 applications, and much more. Operating System: Windows, Linux. 144. Darik's Boot And Nuke Also known as "DBAN," Darik's Boot and Nuke allows you to create a boot disk (CD, DVD, thumb drive, or even an old floppy) which will completely erase all the drives it can detect on your system. It's a great tool if you're getting rid of an old computer, but not as helpful if you're just deleting a few files. Operating System: OS Independent. 145. Eraser If you need to erase only a few files—perhaps your financial or tax records, work files, or as the website suggests, bad self-written poetry—Eraser is the tool for you. It overwrites deleted data multiple times, making it nearly impossible to retrieve the "erased" files. Operating System: Windows. 146. Wipe Wipe erases all traces of deleted files from your hard drive so that they can't be retrieved. It relies heavily on the work of Peter Gutmann, one of the foremost experts in the field. Operating System: Linux.
147. Apatar This data integration tool's graphical interface makes it easy to create mashups without writing code. You can also use Apatar to merge, synchronize, and replicate data from various sources or to move data from third party applications to your internal systems. Operating System: OS Independent. 148. DataCleaner DataCleaner profiles, validates, and compares data in order to ensure data quality. Its claim to fame is its simplicity and low cost compared to other master data management and DW applications. Operating System: OS Independent. 149. KETL KETL is an extract, transform, load (ETL) tool for data integration. It is highly scalable and integrates well with most security and data management tools. Operating System: Linux, Unix. 150. LucidDB Specifically designed for data warehousing and business intelligence, the LucidDB RDBMS was built from scratch to handle high-performance data integration and sophisticated query processing. Key features include intelligent indexing, star join optimization, and advanced connectivity and extensibility. Operating System: Windows, Linux. 151. MailArchiva MailArchiva works with Microsoft Exchange and other mail servers to provide long-term storage of messages for compliance purposes. It includes a Google-like search interface, and it's available in a free, open-source edition and a fee-based enterprise edition. Operating System: Windows, Linux. 152. Talend Open Studio The self-proclaimed "recognized market leader in open source data integration," Talend provides several data integration solutions, including the open source Talend Open Studio and several commercial versions of the Talend Integration Suite. Key features include business modeling, graphical development views, metadata-driven design, and real-time debugging. Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix.
153. Dave’s Quick Search Deskbar With this handy deskbar, you can run a Google or Yahoo search without first opening up a browser window. Plus, it includes a number of shortcuts (for example, include the # sign after a name to locate a telephone number) that make searching even faster. Not that it only works with Internet Explorer as your browser. Operating System: Windows 154. Ditto Ever wish you could save the items you cut or copy to the clipboard? Ditto does just that. It extends the capabilities of the standard Windows clipboard, letting you search and paste previously copied data. Operating System: Windows 155. Fluxbox Fluxbox is based on and very similar to the Blackbox window manager. However, it adds several new features, including configurable window tabs, iconbar, wheel scroll changes workspace, configurable titlebar, kde support, and others. Operating System: Linux. 156. Karsten SlideShow If you like the “My Pictures Slideshow” screensaver in Windows but aren’t sure you want ALL your pictures to be used, Karsten SlideShow lets you control which photos or video clips are used in your screensaver. You can also create a slide show to be used as your desktop wallpaper. Operating System: Windows 157. Launchy With Launchy, you may never need your Start menu, desktop icons, or file manager again. Just start typing the name of a document or application, and Launchy will find it for you. Operating System: Windows 158. LCARS 24 Ever wish your screen looked like those cool interfaces on Star Trek? LCARS 24 offers an alarm clock, calendar, games, maps, etc. all with look of the displays on the Enterprise. It’s probably not something you’d install on your regular computer, but you might want to use it to turn an old DOS PC into a useful conversation piece. Operating System: DOS 159. LXDE Lightweight X Desktop Environment does just what the name suggests: it offers a fast desktop for Linux/Unix systems that doesn’t consume a lot of power or memory. Unlike a lot of similar projects, each of the components can be installed separately, so you can use only the pieces you want. Operating System: Linux 160. PNotes Do you like to leave yourself yellow sticky notes? PNotes gives you the ability to leave yourself virtual sticky notes on your desktop. Multiple skins are available, including transparent notes. Operating System: Windows 161. Synergy If you’ve got more than one computer sitting on your desk, Synergy let’s you use the same mouse and keyboard for both. It works cross-platform, so it’s great if you switch back and forth between a Linux machine and a Windows machine, or a Windows machine and a Mac, etc. Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix, OS X. 162. topBlock Love Lego building blocks? The topBlock screensaver builds a tower of Legos or wireframe blocks whenever your computer is inactive. Operating System: Windows 163. WindowsPager Do a lot of multi-tasking? WindowsPager lets you save multiple desktop setups and switch between them. For example, you can save one desktop with budget software, online banking, and calculator windows open and switch to another desktop with e-mail and a word processor open. Operating System: Windows
164. MiKTeX An update of TeX, MiKTeX is a typesetting program with a complete set of fonts, utilities, and macros. According to the original developer, it was "intended for the creation of beautiful books—and especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics." Operating System: Windows, Linux. 165. Scribus This page layout program makes it easy to create professional-looking press-ready documents or PDF files. Thanks to a very active user community, it comes with tons of support options, including wikis, live chat, a manual (for a fee), and more. Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix, OS X 166. SiSU After creating documents in the text editor of your choice, you can use SiSU (Structured information, serialized units) to publish them in the format of your choice and make them searchable. Supported formats include plain-text, HTML, XHTML, XML, ODF, LaTeX, and PDF. Operating System: Linux/Unix. Open Source Desktop Search
167. DocFetcher DocFetcher is an award-winning, very fast tool for finding search terms in the content of your documents. It does not search photos, videos, music, or programs, but it does search written content in a wide variety of file formats. Operating System: Windows, Linux
168. Dev-C++ Dev-C++ allows developers to edit, debug, and compile C++ code from a user-friendly GUI. It utilizes Mingw libraries by default but can also be used with other GCC-based compilers. Operating System: Windows, Linux/Unix. 169. DotNetNuke DotNetNuke offers an alternative application framework for the Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 platform. If offers enterprise users a versatile, user-friendly means to create cutting-edge Web applications. Operating System: Windows 170. EasyPHP As you’d expect, this package of developer tools includes an easy-to-use PHP execution, and it also comes with an Apache server, a MySQL database, and several other tools. The Web site is written primarily in French, but English documentation is also available. Operating System: Windows. 171. GCC GCC stands for GNU Compiler Collection, and it provides front-ends and libraries for multiple programming languages, including C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada. GCC also performs error checking, debugging, and code optimization. Operating System: OS Independent. 172. Hibernate Part of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite, Hibernate provides object/relational persistence for Java and .NET. It also includes the ability to write queries in SQL or the Hibernate version of SQL (HQL). Operating System: OS Independent. 173. Lazarus Lazarus offers a complete and easy-to-use programming environment for FreePascal. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD. 174. MinGW "MinGW" stands for "Minimalist GNU for Windows." It makes it possible to use Unix-based GNU programming tools in Windows. Operating System: Windows. 175. MUSCLE MUSCLE stands for "Multi-User Server Client Linking Environment." In a nutshell, it makes it possible for cross-platform applications to communicate with each other over the network. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X, BSD. 176. phpMyAdmin Written in PHP, this utility handles the administration of MySQL over the Web. phpMyAdmin performs many database administration tasks like running SQL statements, adding and dropping databases, and adding, editing or deleting tables or fields. Operating System: OS Independent. 177. SharpDevelop This IDE for Microsoft’s .NET platform supports C#, VB.NET, and Boo. It includes a forms designer, code completer, an integrated debugger, and many other features. Operating System: Windows. 178. TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN provides a Windows interface for the Subversion revision control software. It works directly from Windows Explorer and you can use it with virtually any development tools. Operating System: Windows. 179. Ultimate++ This C++ application development solution aims to make programming faster and programmers more productive. Its BLITZ-build technology reduces rebuild time by up to 400 percent. Operating System: Windows, Linux. 180. wxWidgets This cross-platform development toolkit enables programmers to write applications in C++, Python, Perl, and C#/.NET that work on several different operating systems. In addition to an easy-to-use GUI, wxWidgets offers online help, streams, clipboard and drag and drop, multithreading, database support, HTML viewing and printing, and many other features. Operating System: Windows, Linux/Unix, OS X.
181. GlobalSight GlobalSight is a translation management system designed to streamline the process of localizing content for multi-national organizations. It's flexible, completely customizable, and it integrates well with legacy apps. Operating System: Windows, Linux. 182. StarDict StarDict makes it easy to access multiple dictionaries and translation services. You can choose to download one or more of the free dictionaries to your hard drive or access the dictionaries online. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
