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The Northwestern Educational Technology Consortium has created several pages relating to making decisions about open source software. The "Pros and Cons" pages are on our recommended reading list.

The Free Software Directory Lists over 5,000 packages.
sourceforge.net Lists over 120,000 projects in varying stages of development.
freshmeat.net Lists over 60,000 new releases of Open Source packages.

While the following list is neither comprehensive nor the only possible alternatives, we have focused on products we have tested and feel are a best fit as potential substitutes for software we typically find in our customer's offices.

In the Microsoft World (runs only on Windows)	In the Open Source World (runs on Windows or Linux or ?)
Windows (all versions)	Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Office - Word, Excel, Powerpoint	OpenOffice - Writer, Calc, Impress
Outlook	Evolution, Thunderbird w/sunbird
Internet Explorer	Firefox
Quicken (personal finance)	GnuCash, Turbocash
Quickbooks (businance finance)	Quasar, SQL-Ledger
Windows Server	CentOS
Windows SBS Server	SMEServer
File & Printer sharing	Samba
Exchange mail server	Scalix mail server

For more information please visit the Open Source Initiative at www.opensource.org