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Do I have to dump all my proprietary Microsoft (MS) software in order to “go open source”? |
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Written by Garfield Lucas
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No! This can be an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary process. Open source is about giving you the choice. So you decide which products are most appropriate to your needs – and your pockets! Remember... - Open source software can safely co-exist with proprietary products. There are many open source products for MS Windows. Example: ClamWin antivirus deployed by many small to medium sized companies to replace expensive and flaky proprietary products such as Norton & Sophos...
http://www.clamwin.com/ - Many open source products are also available for several operating systems including Linux, Macintosh and Windows. For example mySQL relational database system... http://dev.mysql.com/
& PHP, a powerful web-programming language... http://www.php.net/ – both used extensively in interactive websites. - And an excellent selection of top quality open source software for Windows users is availoable for free download from the OpenCD project...
http://www.theopencd.org/
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 06 December 2006 )
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