Principles of software selection
To select fit softwares, you should apply base rules in coversion and do the following 3 steps:
- Identify your requirements
- Search FOSS to meet your necessary requirements
- You should test carefully before select software to deploy.
List of equivalentsoftwares:
Based on the general rules, experience and careful software testing, users should choose FOSS which have the equivalent features with the commercial software on Windows.
Description
Commercial software
FOSS
Client software
Client operating system
Microsoft Windows XP/Vista
Fedora Linux
Ubuntu Linux
Web browser
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Konqueror
Email clients
Outlook
Outlook Express
Lotus Notes
Zimbra Webmail
Zimbra Desktops
Thunderbird
Instant Messaging, Chat
MSN Messenger
Yahoo Messenger
Lotus Sametime
Pidgin
FTP clients
WS FTP
FileZilla FTP client
GFTP
Image processing
Adobe Photoshop
Corel Draw
Gimp
Inkscape
Music & film
Windows Media Player
VLC
Mplayer
Office
Microsoft Office
OpenOffice
Project Planning
Microsoft Project
OpenProj
Imendio Planner
Vietnamese keyboard
Vietkey
Xvnkb
Unikey
File compression
WinZip
WinRAR
7-zip
Virus scan
Symantec AntiVirus
McAfee
TrendMicro
ClamAV
Server software and network services
Server operating system
Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008
CentOS Linux
Debian Linux
Ubuntu Linux
FreeBSD, OpenBSD
Base network service
Microsoft DNS
Microsoft DHCP
Bind
DHCPd
Fire wall
CheckPoint
iptables
Internet Proxy
Microsoft ISA
Squid
Network monitoring
Microsoft System Management Server
ZenOSS
Back up & recovery data
Symantec BackupEXEC
Bacula
Amanda
Web
Microsoft IIS
Apache
FTP
Microsoft FTP
ProFTPd
VSFTP
Email and collaboration
Microsoft Exchange
Lotus Domino
Lotus Sametime
MDaemon