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Bossie Awards are given to the best open source
software in various categories. The first of these awards was announced in September 2007, and were given to 36 software applications across 6 categories. The software was adjudged by the Infoworld editors and reviewers.
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Bossie Awards are given to the best open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
software in various categories. The first of these awards was announced in September 2007, and were given to 36 software applications across 6 categories. The software was adjudged by the Infoworld editors and reviewers.
Open source software awards
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| Customer Relationship Management | SugarCRM | SugarCRM | SugarCRM | SugarCRM |
| Enterprise Resource Planning | Openbravo ERP | Compiere Compiere Compiere is an open source ERP and CRM business solution for the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise in distribution, retail, service and manufacturing... |
Compiere Compiere Compiere is an open source ERP and CRM business solution for the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise in distribution, retail, service and manufacturing... and Openbravo ERP |
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| Enterprise Portal | Liferay Portal | Liferay Portal | ||
| Web Publishing and Document Management | Alfresco Alfresco Alfresco in English usually refers to eating outside , but also may refer to:* Alfresco , an open-source content-management system... |
Alfresco Alfresco Alfresco in English usually refers to eating outside , but also may refer to:* Alfresco , an open-source content-management system... |
Drupal Drupal Drupal is a free and open-source content management system and content management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and... |
Alfresco Alfresco Alfresco in English usually refers to eating outside , but also may refer to:* Alfresco , an open-source content-management system... , Drupal Drupal Drupal is a free and open-source content management system and content management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and... , and LogicalDOC LogicalDOC LogicalDOC is an Free/Libre document management system that is designed to handle and share documents within an organization.LogicalDOC is a content repository, with Lucene indexing, jBPM workflow, and a set of automatic import procedures.... |
| Search Engine | Apache Solr | |||
| Blog Publishing and Content Management | WordPress WordPress WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1... |
WordPress WordPress WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1... |
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| Mail and Collaboration | Scalix Scalix Scalix is an e-mail and groupware server that runs on Linux, licensed under the Scalix Public License .Scalix provides e-mail, group calendaring and other collaborative software, which are standard in groupware... |
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| IM Server | Jabber Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol is an open-standard communications protocol for message-oriented middleware based on XML . The protocol was originally named Jabber, and was developed by the Jabber open-source community in 1999 for near-real-time, extensible instant messaging , presence... |
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| Streaming Media / Conferencing | Dimdim Dimdim Dimdim was a software company that provided a web-based platform for realtime, rich-media collaboration and meetings. Dimdim provided free web conferencing service where users could share desktops, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam. It has been compared to the WebEx 2.0... |
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| Project Management | dotProject DotProject dotProject is a web-based, multi-user, multi-language Project Management application. It is open-source software, free for any use and is maintained by an open community of volunteer programmers.-Structures and Features:... |
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| Business Process Management | Intalio BPM Commercial open source applications Open source software is widely used for private and non-commercial applications. In addition, many independent software vendors , value-added resellers , and hardware vendors use open source frameworks, modules, and libraries inside their proprietary, for-profit products and services... |
Intalio BPM Commercial open source applications Open source software is widely used for private and non-commercial applications. In addition, many independent software vendors , value-added resellers , and hardware vendors use open source frameworks, modules, and libraries inside their proprietary, for-profit products and services... |
Intalio BPM Commercial open source applications Open source software is widely used for private and non-commercial applications. In addition, many independent software vendors , value-added resellers , and hardware vendors use open source frameworks, modules, and libraries inside their proprietary, for-profit products and services... |
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| Business Intelligence | Pentaho BI Suite Pentaho The Pentaho BI Suite is open source Business Intelligence suite with integrated reporting, dashboard, data mining, workflow and ETL capabilities. Pentaho is headquartered in Orlando, USA.- Overview :... |
Jaspersoft BI Suite and Pentaho BI Suite Pentaho The Pentaho BI Suite is open source Business Intelligence suite with integrated reporting, dashboard, data mining, workflow and ETL capabilities. Pentaho is headquartered in Orlando, USA.- Overview :... |
Pentaho BI Suite Pentaho The Pentaho BI Suite is open source Business Intelligence suite with integrated reporting, dashboard, data mining, workflow and ETL capabilities. Pentaho is headquartered in Orlando, USA.- Overview :... |
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| e-Commerce | Magento Magento Magento is an open source based ecommerce web application that was launched on March 31, 2008. It was developed by Varien with help from the programmers within the open source community but is owned solely by . Magento was built using the Zend Framework... |
Magento Magento Magento is an open source based ecommerce web application that was launched on March 31, 2008. It was developed by Varien with help from the programmers within the open source community but is owned solely by . Magento was built using the Zend Framework... |
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| Web Analytics | Piwik Piwik Piwik is an open source web analytics system written by a team of international developers, and runs on a PHP/MySQL webserver. Piwik is used by over 250,000 websites and is translated in more than 45 languages.... |
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| VoIP Telephony | Asterisk Asterisk An asterisk is a typographical symbol or glyph. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often pronounce it as star... |
Asterisk Asterisk An asterisk is a typographical symbol or glyph. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often pronounce it as star... |
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| Streaming Media | Azureus Vuze | |||
| Directory Services | Open Directory Open Directory Open Directory may refer to:* The Open Directory Project , a human-maintained directory of websites also known as DMOZ* Apple Open Directory, an LDAP-compatible directory service for Mac OS X Server* The Sun Open Directory Service project... |
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| System Administration and Configuration Management | Puppet | RANCID, Webmin Webmin Webmin is a web-based system configuration tool for Unix-like systems, although recent versions can also be installed and run on Windows. With it, it is possible to configure operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services or configuration files, as well as modify and control open... , and Puppet |
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| System Cloning | FOG | |||
| Network Protocol Analysis | Wireshark Wireshark Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education... |
Wireshark Wireshark Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education... |
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| Wireless Sniffer / Scanner | Kismet | inSSIDer Inssider inSSIDer is a Wi-Fi network scanner for Windows. It received a 2008 Infoworld Bossie Award for "Best of open source software in networking".-History:... |
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| Log File Analyzer | AWStats AWStats AWStats is an open source Web analytics reporting tool, suitable for analyzing data from Internet services such as web, streaming media, mail and FTP servers. AWStats parses and analyzes server log files, producing HTML reports. Data is visually presented within reports by tables and bar graphs... |
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| Network Monitoring and Management | Zenoss Core Zenoss Zenoss is an open source application, server and network management platform based on the Zope application server. Released under the GNU General Public License version 2, Zenoss Core provides a web interface that allows system administrators to monitor availability, inventory/configuration,... |
OpenNMS OpenNMS OpenNMS is an enterprise grade network monitoring and network management platform developed under the free software or open source model. It consists of a community supported, free software project as well as a corporation, The OpenNMS Group, offering commercial services, training and support.The... |
OpenNMS OpenNMS OpenNMS is an enterprise grade network monitoring and network management platform developed under the free software or open source model. It consists of a community supported, free software project as well as a corporation, The OpenNMS Group, offering commercial services, training and support.The... |
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| Network Access Control | PacketFence PacketFence PacketFence is an open-source network access control system which provides the following features: registration, detection of abnormal network activities, proactive vulnerability scans, isolation of problematic devices, remediation through a captive portal, 802.1X, wireless integration and... |
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| Application & System Monitoring | Hyperic HQ Commercial open source applications Open source software is widely used for private and non-commercial applications. In addition, many independent software vendors , value-added resellers , and hardware vendors use open source frameworks, modules, and libraries inside their proprietary, for-profit products and services... |
Hyperic HQ Commercial open source applications Open source software is widely used for private and non-commercial applications. In addition, many independent software vendors , value-added resellers , and hardware vendors use open source frameworks, modules, and libraries inside their proprietary, for-profit products and services... |
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| Server Monitoring | Nagios Nagios Nagios is a popular open source computer system and network monitoring software application. It watches hosts and services, alerting users when things go wrong and again when they get better.... |
Nagios Nagios Nagios is a popular open source computer system and network monitoring software application. It watches hosts and services, alerting users when things go wrong and again when they get better.... |
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| Monitoring and Graphing | Cacti | Cacti | ||
| Wireless Network Interface | NDISwrapper NdisWrapper NDISwrapper, is a free software driver wrapper that enables the use of Windows XP drivers for network devices , on Linux only operating systems. NDISwrapper works by implementing the Windows kernel and NDIS APIs, and dynamically linking the Windows drivers to this implementation... |
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| IT Service Management | OTRS OTRS OTRS, an initialism for Open-source Ticket Request System, is a free and open-source trouble ticket system software package that a company, organization, or other entity can use to assign tickets to incoming queries and track further communications about them... |
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| Network Vulnerability Assessment | Nessus Nessus (software) In computer security, Nessus is a proprietary comprehensive vulnerability scanning program. It is free of charge for personal use in a non-enterprise environment. Its goal is to detect potential vulnerabilities on the tested systems. For example:... |
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| Intrusion Prevention/Detection | Snort Snort Snort may refer to:* Snort , a package for intrusion detection* Snort, a map-coloring game* Insufflation, the act of blowing, breathing, hissing, or puffing... |
Snort Snort Snort may refer to:* Snort , a package for intrusion detection* Snort, a map-coloring game* Insufflation, the act of blowing, breathing, hissing, or puffing... |
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| Anti-virus | ClamAV | |||
| Anti-spam | Spamassassin SpamAssassin SpamAssassin is a computer program released under the Apache License 2.0 used for e-mail spam filtering based on content-matching rules. It is now part of the Apache Foundation.... |
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| Network Firewall | IPCop IPCop IPCop is a Linux distribution which aims to provide a simple-to-manage firewall appliance based on PC hardware. IPCop is a stateful firewall built on the Linux netfilter framework.... |
SmoothWall Express | IPCop IPCop IPCop is a Linux distribution which aims to provide a simple-to-manage firewall appliance based on PC hardware. IPCop is a stateful firewall built on the Linux netfilter framework.... |
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| Application Firewall | SELinux | AppArmor AppArmor AppArmor is a security module for the Linux kernel, released under the GNU General Public License. AppArmor allows the system administrator to associate with each program a security profile that restricts the capabilities of that program. It supplements the traditional Unix discretionary access... |
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| Router, Firewall, and VPN | OpenVPN OpenVPN OpenVPN is a free and open source software application that implements virtual private network techniques for creating secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections in routed or bridged configurations and remote access facilities. It uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for... |
Vyatta Vyatta Vyatta manufactures an open source router/firewall/VPN product for Internet Protocol networks . A free download of Vyatta has been available since March 2006. The system is a specialized Debian-based Linux distribution with networking applications such as Quagga, OpenVPN, and many others... |
Vyatta Vyatta Vyatta manufactures an open source router/firewall/VPN product for Internet Protocol networks . A free download of Vyatta has been available since March 2006. The system is a specialized Debian-based Linux distribution with networking applications such as Quagga, OpenVPN, and many others... |
Vyatta Vyatta Vyatta manufactures an open source router/firewall/VPN product for Internet Protocol networks . A free download of Vyatta has been available since March 2006. The system is a specialized Debian-based Linux distribution with networking applications such as Quagga, OpenVPN, and many others... |
| Security testing best practices | OSSTMM | |||
| Penetration toolkit | Metasploit | |||
| Password Utility | Ophcrack Ophcrack Ophcrack is a free open source program that cracks Windows passwords by using LM hashes through rainbow tables. The program includes the ability to import the hashes from a variety of formats, including dumping directly from the SAM files of Windows... |
KeePass KeePass KeePass Password Safe is an open-source password management utility for Microsoft Windows, with unofficial ports for Linux, Mac OS X, and a variety of other systems.-Cryptography:... |
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| Security Log File Analyzer | Splunk Splunk Splunk is enterprise software used to monitor, report and analyze the machine data produced by the applications, systems and infrastructure that run a business. Splunk lets users search, monitor and analyze machine-generated data via web-style interface... |
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| Disk encryption | TrueCrypt TrueCrypt TrueCrypt is a software application used for on-the-fly encryption . It is free and open source. It can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file or encrypt a partition or the entire storage device .- Operating systems :TrueCrypt supports Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and... |
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| Gateway security | Untangle | Untangle | ||
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| Server OS | CentOS CentOS CentOS is a free operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux . It exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream distribution... |
CentOS CentOS CentOS is a free operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux . It exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream distribution... |
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| Desktop OS | Ubuntu Ubuntu (operating system) Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu... |
Ubuntu Ubuntu (operating system) Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu... |
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| Mobile OS | Android | |||
| Small-footprint Live CD A live CD, live DVD, or live disc is a CD or DVD containing a bootable computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system on a computer lacking mutable secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive... OS |
Puppy Linux Puppy Linux Puppy Linux is a lightweight Linux distribution that focuses on ease of use. The entire system can be run from RAM, allowing the boot medium to be removed after the operating system has started... |
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| Hypervisor and Server Virtualization | Xen Xen Xen is a virtual-machine monitor providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently.... |
Xen Xen Xen is a virtual-machine monitor providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently.... |
Xen Xen Xen is a virtual-machine monitor providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently.... |
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| Linux Virtualization with Containers | OpenVZ OpenVZ OpenVZ is an operating system-level virtualization technology based on the Linux kernel and operating system. OpenVZ allows a physical server to run multiple isolated operating system instances, known as containers, Virtual Private Servers , or Virtual Environments... |
OpenVZ OpenVZ OpenVZ is an operating system-level virtualization technology based on the Linux kernel and operating system. OpenVZ allows a physical server to run multiple isolated operating system instances, known as containers, Virtual Private Servers , or Virtual Environments... |
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| Virtualization Platform Running on a Host OS | VirtualBox VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, originally created by software company Innotek GmbH, purchased by Sun Microsystems, and now developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products... |
VirtualBox VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, originally created by software company Innotek GmbH, purchased by Sun Microsystems, and now developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products... |
VirtualBox VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, originally created by software company Innotek GmbH, purchased by Sun Microsystems, and now developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products... and KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a virtualization infrastructure for the Linux kernel. KVM supports native virtualization on processors with hardware virtualization extensions.... |
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| Appliance Platform | TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library | |||
| Web Application Server | JBoss Seam JBoss Seam Seam is a web application framework developed by JBoss, a division of Red Hat.- Seam 3 :Seam 3 is very active project consisting of over 50 developers and engineers, which provides a modular set of extensions to the CDI programming model... |
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| Web Server, Proxy, and Cache | Apache Apache HTTP Server The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to as Apache , is web server software notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. In 2009 it became the first web server software to surpass the 100 million website milestone... |
nginx Nginx nginx is a Web server and a reverse proxy server for HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP protocols, with a strong focus on high concurrency, performance and low memory usage. It is licensed under a BSD-like license and it runs on Unix, Linux, BSD variants, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows.- Overview... |
nginx Nginx nginx is a Web server and a reverse proxy server for HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP protocols, with a strong focus on high concurrency, performance and low memory usage. It is licensed under a BSD-like license and it runs on Unix, Linux, BSD variants, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows.- Overview... |
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| Database, SQL SQL SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems .... |
MySQL MySQL MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My... |
MySQL MySQL MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My... |
Infobright Community Edition (ICE) Column-oriented DBMS A column-oriented DBMS is a database management system that stores its content by column rather than by row. This has advantages for data warehouses and library catalogues where aggregates are computed over large numbers of similar data items.... |
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| Database, NoSQL Nosql In computing, NoSQL is a broad class of database management systems that differ from the classic model of the relational database management system in some significant ways. These data stores may not require fixed table schemas, usually avoid join operations, and typically scale horizontally... |
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| Enterprise Service Bus | MuleSource MuleSource MuleSource is a provider of open source service oriented architecture infrastructure software, founded by Ross Mason, the creator of the Mule project - an open source enterprise service bus and integration platform - and Dave Rosenberg.... |
JBossESB JBDS JBoss Developer Studio is a development environment created and currently developed by JBoss and .It integrates and certifies both tooling and runtime components by combining Eclipse, Eclipse Tooling, and the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.The built-in development tools are used to build... |
Mule ESB Mule (software) Mule is a lightweight enterprise service bus and integration framework. It can handle services and applications using disparate transport and messaging technologies... |
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| Middleware and SOA Platform | WSO2 Carbon | WSO2 Carbon | ||
| MySQL Administration | phpMyAdmin PhpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin is an open source tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL with the use of a Web browser. It can perform various tasks such as creating, modifying or deleting databases, tables, fields or rows; executing SQL statements; or managing users and... |
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| Data Integration | Talend Open Studio Talend Open Studio Talend Open Studio is an open source data integration product developed by Talend and designed to combine, convert and update data in various locations across a business.- History :... |
Talend Open Studio Talend Open Studio Talend Open Studio is an open source data integration product developed by Talend and designed to combine, convert and update data in various locations across a business.- History :... , Talend Open Profiler Talend Open Profiler Talend Open Profiler is an open source computer software project for data profiling. The project is driven by commercial open source vendor Talend.-Talend Open Profiler Project:... , and Talend MDM |
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| Data Migration | Jitterbit Integration Server Jitterbit Integration Server Jitterbit is a commercial open-source enterprise integration software product.Jitterbit is a graphical tool that allows for the transport and transformation between data types and sources, including web services, XML files, ODBC and JDBC databases, EDI files, flat and hierarchic file structures... |
Jitterbit Integration Server Jitterbit Integration Server Jitterbit is a commercial open-source enterprise integration software product.Jitterbit is a graphical tool that allows for the transport and transformation between data types and sources, including web services, XML files, ODBC and JDBC databases, EDI files, flat and hierarchic file structures... |
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| IDE and Software Platform | NetBeans NetBeans NetBeans refers to both a platform framework for Java desktop applications, and an integrated development environment for developing with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Groovy, C, C++, Scala, Clojure, and others... |
NetBeans NetBeans NetBeans refers to both a platform framework for Java desktop applications, and an integrated development environment for developing with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Groovy, C, C++, Scala, Clojure, and others... |
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| Rich Internet Application Rich Internet application A Rich Internet Application is a Web application that has many of the characteristics of desktop application software, typically delivered either by way of a site-specific browser, via a browser plug-in, independent sandboxes, extensive use of JavaScript, or virtual machines... Development |
OpenLaszlo OpenLaszlo OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications. It is released under the Open Source Initiative-certified Common Public License .... |
Adobe Flex Builder Adobe Flex Builder Adobe Flash Builder is an integrated development environment built on the Eclipse platform that speeds development of rich Internet applications and cross-platform desktop applications, particularly for the Adobe Flash platform. Adobe Flash Builder 4 is available in three editions: Standard,... |
Ext JS and Ext GWT Ext (javascript library) Ext JS is a JavaScript library for building interactive web applications using techniques such as Ajax, DHTML and DOM scripting.Originally built as an add-on library extension of YUI by Jack Slocum, Ext includes interoperability with jQuery and Prototype... |
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| Continuous Integration Server | CruiseControl CruiseControl In software development, CruiseControl is a Java-based framework for a continuous build process. It includes, but is not limited to, plugins for email notification, Ant, and various source control tools. A web interface is provided to view the details of the current and previous builds... |
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| Object Database | db4o Db4o db4o is an embeddable open source object database for Java and .NET developers. It is developed, commercially licensed and supported by Versant.... |
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| Distributed Version Control and Source Management | Git Git (software) Git is a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on... |
Git Git (software) Git is a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on... |
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| Web client library | HttpClient | WebKit WebKit WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. WebKit powers Google Chrome and Apple Safari and by October 2011 held over 33% of the browser market share between them. It is also used as the basis for the experimental browser included with the Amazon Kindle ebook... |
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| Multi-core programming | Intel Threading Building Blocks Intel Threading Building Blocks Intel Threading Building Blocks is a C++ template library developed by Intel Corporation for writing software programs that take advantage of multi-core processors... |
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| Distributed applications and data | Hadoop Hadoop Apache Hadoop is a software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data... and Hadoop Hive Apache Hive Apache Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop for providing data summarization, query, and analysis. While initially developed by Facebook, Apache Hive is now used and developed by other companies such as Netflix... |
Hadoop Hadoop Apache Hadoop is a software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data... |
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| Business rule management system | JBoss Drools Drools Drools is a business rule management system with a forward chaining inference based rules engine, more correctly known as a production rule system, using an enhanced implementation of the Rete algorithm.... |
Drools Drools Drools is a business rule management system with a forward chaining inference based rules engine, more correctly known as a production rule system, using an enhanced implementation of the Rete algorithm.... |
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| Cross-platform .NET Framework | Mono Mono (software) Mono, pronounced , is a free and open source project led by Xamarin to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET-compatible set of tools including, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime.... |
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| JavaScript Library | Prototype JavaScript Framework Prototype Javascript Framework The Prototype JavaScript Framework is a JavaScript framework created by Sam Stephenson in February 2005 as part of the foundation for Ajax support in Ruby on Rails. It is implemented as a single file of JavaScript code, usually named prototype.js... |
jQuery JQuery jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It was released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig... |
jQuery JQuery jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It was released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig... and Ext Core Ext (javascript library) Ext JS is a JavaScript library for building interactive web applications using techniques such as Ajax, DHTML and DOM scripting.Originally built as an add-on library extension of YUI by Jack Slocum, Ext includes interoperability with jQuery and Prototype... |
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| Web Services and Applications Development | soapUI Soapui SoapUI is an open source web service testing tool for service-oriented architectures . Its functionality covers web service inspection, invoking, development, simulation and mocking, functional testing, load and compliance testing. Eviware also released a Pro version as a commercial product which... |
Eclipse Web Services Tools Eclipse (software) Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising an integrated development environment and an extensible plug-in system... |
Zend Framework Zend Framework Zend Framework is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5 and licensed under the New BSD License.-Licensing:... |
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| Web Applications Development for Mobile Devices | jQTouch JQTouch jQTouch is an Open Source JQuery plugin with native animations, automatic navigation, and themes for mobile WebKit browsers like iPhone, G1 , and Palm Pre... and Sencha Touch Commercial open source applications Open source software is widely used for private and non-commercial applications. In addition, many independent software vendors , value-added resellers , and hardware vendors use open source frameworks, modules, and libraries inside their proprietary, for-profit products and services... |
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| Cross-browser Tool | Browsershots Cross-browser Cross-browser refers to the ability for a website, web application, HTML construct or client-side script to support all the web browsers. The term cross-browser is often confused with multi-browser... |
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| Collaborative Data Library | OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the world and the advent of inexpensive portable GPS devices.The... |
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| Programming Language, general | Go Go (programming language) Go is a compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google Inc.The initial design of Go was started in September 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. Go was officially announced in November 2009. In May 2010, Rob Pike publicly stated that Go was being... and JRuby JRuby JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby programming language, being developed by the JRuby team. It is free software released under a three-way CPL/GPL/LGPL license... |
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| Programming Language, statistical computing and graphics | R R (programming language) R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language is widely used among statisticians for developing statistical software, and R is widely used for statistical software development and data analysis.... |
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| File system | Zettabyte File System (ZFS) ZFS In computing, ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems. The features of ZFS include data integrity verification against data corruption modes , support for high storage capacities, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management,... |
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| NAS Nas Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, who performs under the name Nas , formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapper and actor. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in hip hop and one of the most skilled and influential rappers of all-time... Server |
FreeNAS FreeNAS FreeNAS is a free network-attached storage server, supporting: CIFS , FTP, NFS, rsync, AFP protocols, iSCSI, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, and software RAID , with a web-based configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 64 MB once installed on CompactFlash, hard drive or USB flash... |
FreeNAS FreeNAS FreeNAS is a free network-attached storage server, supporting: CIFS , FTP, NFS, rsync, AFP protocols, iSCSI, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, and software RAID , with a web-based configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 64 MB once installed on CompactFlash, hard drive or USB flash... |
Openfiler Openfiler Openfiler is an operating system that provides file-based network-attached storage and block-based storage area network. It was created by Xinit Systems, and is based on the rPath Linux distribution. It is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2... |
FreeNAS FreeNAS FreeNAS is a free network-attached storage server, supporting: CIFS , FTP, NFS, rsync, AFP protocols, iSCSI, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, and software RAID , with a web-based configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 64 MB once installed on CompactFlash, hard drive or USB flash... |
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| Best block I/O tool | Iometer Iometer Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It is used as a benchmark and troubleshooting tool and is easily configured to replicate the behaviour of many popular applications... |
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| Best file I/O tool | IOzone IOzone IOzone is a file system benchmark utility. Originally made by William Norcott, further enhanced by Don Capps. Source code is available. It does mmap file I/O and uses POSIX Threads.It won the 2007 Infoworld Bossie Awards for Best file I/O tool.... |
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| Network backup | Amanda Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver Amanda, previously known as Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver is an open source computer archiving tool that is able to back up data residing on multiple computers on a network... |
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| Online backup | Free Online Backup | |||
| File management | WinMerge WinMerge WinMerge is a free software tool for file comparison and merging text-like files. It is useful for determining what has changed between versions, and then merging changes between versions.The project is currently dormant.WinMerge runs on Microsoft Windows.... |
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| Disk monitoring | Smartmontools Smartmontools Smartmontools is a set of utility programs to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System built into most modern ATA, Serial ATA and SCSI hard drives. Smartmontools provide early warning signs of problems with a hard drive, allowing a... |
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| Social Networking | Elgg Elgg (software) Elgg is open source social networking software that provides individuals and organizations with the components needed to create an online social environment. It offers blogging, microblogging, file sharing, networking, groups and a number of other features.... |
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| Wiki | MediaWiki MediaWiki MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites... |
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| Mail and calendar | Scalix Scalix Scalix is an e-mail and groupware server that runs on Linux, licensed under the Scalix Public License .Scalix provides e-mail, group calendaring and other collaborative software, which are standard in groupware... |
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| Remote Control | VNC | |||
| Blog Publishing | WordPress WordPress WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1... |
WordPress WordPress WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1... |
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| Sound Editing | Audacity Audacity Audacity is a free software, cross-platform digital audio editor and recording application. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD.Audacity was created by Dominic Mazzoni while he was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University... |
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| 3-D Modelling | Blender Blender (software) Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications or video games. The current release version is 2.60, and was released on October 19, 2011... |
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| Web browser | Firefox | |||
| Image Editing | GIMP GIMP GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and... |
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| Productivity Suite | OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org, commonly known as OOo or OpenOffice, is an open-source application suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software... |
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| PDF Creation | PDFCreator PDFCreator PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format format on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It works by creating a virtual printer that prints to PDF files, and thereby allows practically any application to create PDF files by choosing to print from within... |
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