On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:45:29AM -0800, John Cherry wrote: > Good idea. And this is a great starting point for the next OSDL survey. > BTW, I just saw some results from a Novell survey that showed the top > apps that are needed for the desktop. The results did not show email > clients or browsers, so these are probably "good enough". Rather, they > listed... > > 1. Quickbooks > 2. Autocad > 3. Photoshop > 4. Itunes > 5. Dreamweaver > 6. Visio > 7. Lotus Notes > 8. Quicken > 9. Macromedia Studio > 10. Act!
Hmm, interesting that Illustrator wasn't listed there... Is that because Illustrator isn't viewed as a "top ten" tool, or because they feel there is are sufficient open source alternatives? > http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16798.html > > Please just use this as information and lets not fuel the discussion > about market share and major vs minor ISV targets. We've probably > beaten that to death. > > On a related note, is anyone aware of a place where users could go to > find open source alternatives to these applications? I'm not talking > about googling for projects or scanning the open source foundries, but a > place where a user could just find a Quickbooks or Autocad replacement? Brian found this list: http://www.chlug.org/oss_equiv.php Wikipedia also has a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_software_packages Bryce
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