Open Source alternatives for Business
One of the common questions that come up during IT strategy discussions is around open source alternatives that businesses should keep an eye on, if not actively considering a migration to. This article examines some of the common open source alternatives that I have found most clients have been happy with in their production environment. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of open source alternatives. But, some of the top choices in selected categories that can get you started.
Part 1 – Developer tools
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Open Source Solution |
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IDE |
Eclipse
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To quote from the eclipse wiki – “Eclipse means a lot of different things to different people. To some Eclipse is a free, state-of-the-art Java development environment. To others, Eclipse is a flexible environment to experiment with new computer languages or extensions to existing languages.”
Written in Java, and available for Mac OS, Windows in addition to many others, this is the most popular multi-language IDE with extensive community support. Truly amazing! |
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Web Dev Editor / IDE |
Bluefish
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A lightweight editor/IDE for Linux that supports multiple documents, tons of wizards and allows creation of dynamic web sites.
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C/C++ IDE |
Anjuta
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A full featured User Friendly C++ oriented IDE for GNU/Linux. Works great with GLADE |
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UI Designer |
Glade
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A a RAD (rapid application development) tool used to create GTK+/GNOME WYSIWYG graphical user interfaces. Can work with / even be embedded into Anjuta.
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In the next part, we’ll look at one of my favorite topics for leveraging Open Source – Content Management. Stay tuned.
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