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Top 15 Open source alternative to Microsoft products

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Microsoft is monopoly in the commercial software. Here are 15 best alternatives to most popular and widely used Microsoft products.

Operating System	Windows	Ubuntu
Email Server	Exchange Server	Zimbra
Email Client	Outlook	Thunderbird
Browser	Internet Explorer	Firefox / Chrome
Directory Service / Identity Management	Active Directory	Open LDAP
Database	SQL Server	MySQL
Enterprise Search	Fast	Solr
Office Suite	MS Office	Open office / LibreOffice
Source code Management	Visual source safe / Team foundation	Git / Subversion
Web browser	IIS	Apache
Integrated Development Environment	Visual studio	Eclipse / Netbeans
Mobile OS	Windows Mobile	Android
Media player	Windows Media Player	VLC Media player / Zinf
UML and Network diagram tools	Visio	Dia / Star UML
Enterprise Content Management System	Sharepoint	Alfresco / Liferay

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Is it good time to switch from MySQL and choose some other database?

Recently you might have seen many news that big organization like Redhat, Fedora, Wikipedia switched their database from MySQL. Now Google also going to join them. Why everyone want to move out of MySQL? It is once a popular and stable software. What is the reason behind and what are the possible alternatives.

Microsoft acquires GitHub. Is it Good or Bad?

Microsoft announced that it is acquiring GitHub for 7.5 Billion dollars. GitHub is a most used Software developer and Code hosting platform. It hosts more than 80 million code repository and more than 20 million developers collaborate in GitHub. In addition to managing code repositories, GitHub has developed many tools to increase the productivity of developers. Almost 70% of open source projects hosted in GitHub. Microsoft is a big corporate leader and it buying a open source code hosting company, Is it good or bad?

LucidWorks Vs SearchBlox - Enterprise Search Solution

Enterprise search software should be capable to search the data available in the entire organization or personnel desktop. The data could be in File system, Web or in Database. It should search contents of Emails, file formats like doc, xls, ppt, pdf and lot more. There are many commercial products available but LucidWorks and SearchBlox are best and free.

React Patent Clause Licensing issue. Is it something to worry?

React libraries from Facebook is one of the most used UI libraries. It is competitive to AngularJS. There are many open source UI components or frameworks available but mostly people narrow down to two choices Angular / React. Recently Facebook has updated React license and added a patent clause which makes companies to worry and rethink whether to use React or not.

Microsoft released F# under Open Source

F# is a functional programming language for the .NET Framework. It combines the succinct, expressive and compositional style of functional programming with the runtime, libraries, interoperability, and object model of .NET. Microsoft recently released its source code under Apache License.

Where should i host my open source code?

I have a open source project but where should i host? This is the frequently asked question among developers. Below details will certainly help to choose the best code hosting site.

How to make money from Open Source

As open source getting popular day by day, many have questions like How to make money from Open Source? Lot more products are getting introduced and don't know who is making money. Certainly open source means, give the product and source for free then how to make money? Yes sell the product for free but get paid for its services.

Microweber CMS - An open source CMS with Ecommerce support

To the user's satisfaction, there is a whole wide world of different CMS, all suitable for different needs. You can go for the giants like Wordpress or Joomla or pick one of the rising forces - Shopify, Squarespace or others. Microweber CMS fills a hole in the current technological ecosystem, aimed at delivering a light software that is perfect for all end-users lacking the technical knowledge needed for complicated website building.

ONLYOFFICE Document Server, an online office app for Nextcloud and ownCloud

ONLYOFFICE Document Server is a free collaborative online office suite including viewers and editors for texts, spreadsheets and presentations, fully compatible with Office Open XML formats (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx). This article provides you the overview of ONLYOFFICE Document Server, its features, installation and integration with Nextcloud and ownCloud.

Univention Corporate Server - An open source identity management system

Univention Corporate Server is an open source identity management system, an IT infrastructure and device management solution and an extensible platform with a store-like App Center that includes tested third party applications and further UCS components: This is what Univention combines in their main product Univention Corporate Server, a Debian GNU/Linux based enterprise distribution. This article provides you the overview of Univention Corporate Server, its feature and installation.

8 Best Open Source Searchengines built on top of Lucene

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Marketing stratigies required to sell open source product

Many new products are coming in the open source world. Few are forking existing project, adding new features to it and selling it as open source product. Few strategies required to follow to sell the product better.

An introduction to LucidWorks Enterprise Search

Lucidworks Enterprise search solution is built on top of Apache Solr. It scales seamlessly w/sub-second response times under extreme query loads for multi-billion document collections. It has user friendly UI, which does all the job of configuration and search.

Pros and Cons of GPL licenese

GPL is widely used and known license in Open Source community. Richard Stallman father of GNU is the man behind GPL. GPL gives freedom and not free software.

AbanteCart - Easy to use open source e-commerce platform, helps selling online

AbanteCart is a free, open source shopping cart that was built by developers with a passion for free and accessible software. Founded in 2010 (launched in 2011), the platform is coded in PHP and supports MySQL. AbanteCart’s easy to use admin and basic layout management tool make this open source solution both easy to use and customizable, depending on the skills of the user. AbanteCart is very user-friendly, it is entirely possible for a user with little to no coding experience to set up and use this cart. If the user would be limited to the themes and features available in base AbanteCart, there is a marketplace where third-party extensions or plugins come to the rescue.

LogicalDOC - Open Source DMS

LogicalDOC is both a document management and a collaboration system. The software is loaded with many functions and allows organizing, indexing, retrieving, controlling and distributing important business documents securely and safely for any organization and individual.

Exonum Blockchain Framework by the Bitfury Group

Exonum is an extensible open source blockchain framework for building private blockchains which offers outstanding performance, data security, as well as fault tolerance. The framework does not include any business logic, instead, you can develop and add the services that meet your specific needs. Exonum can be used to build various solutions from a document registry to a DevOps facilitation system.

Crowdfunding for Open Source Projects

Open Source projects requires sponsors to fund their project. Few got good funding but few others are struggling to continue their project. A contributor, who does full time work in open source project requires funding to take care his needs. He has to be paid and he cannot do it for free. For those who don't get fund, check out this crowdfunding sites, these are exclusively for open source projects. Join these, get some fund and continue your dream.

Open source is the backbone for Startups

Many startups are entering in to the business due to open source. Open source acts as a back bone / pillar for their business. It reduces the cost of production, Generates revenue from consulting and support. This article describes about the startups which flourished because of open source. Sun acquired MySQL for $1Bn is the biggest achievement for open source startups.

How to get sponsors for your open source projects

Open source projects are free to use but the developers should be economically happy so that they could give time and energy to the project. There are lot of projects which are good but not able to sustain in the long run. In this article we will discuss about how to get sponsors for open source projects.