How to Migrate to Open Source Software

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Years ago, there was a vigorous debate about whether open source software (also known as Free (as in speech) Software, software libre and freedomware) could ever compete with proprietary software. Usability, the traditional handicap of open source, is a problem that is gradually being solved.

Migrating to open source is not difficult; much open source software is available on Windows, so you won't have to switch to Linux if you don't want to. If you want to save money and free yourself from vendor lock-in, then start making the switch yourself.

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   Try out OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice, which is an open source office suite, available for many platforms (including Windows). It comes with a word processor, spreadsheet, a presenter (akin to PowerPoint), an illustrator, and a database manager. Alternatively, if you only need a word processor and spreadsheet application, AbiWord is a fast and lightweight word processor and Gnumeric is its counterpart spreadsheet program. LibreOffice comes installed on many Linux distributions.
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   If you have been using Microsoft Outlook for a while, there is an e-mail client called Zimbra that you can consider having and it supports almost all of the e-mail providers. It works on Windows. Another e-mail client to consider is Mozilla Thunderbird.
   • Mozilla Lightning and Sunbird provide shared calendars, and Evolution, also available for Windows, is a "groupware" application that works with Novell GroupWise and some versions of Microsoft Exchange Server.
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   Switch to an open source web browser. Firefox is a free, cross-platform web browser that offers greater privacy and prevents pop-ups, spyware and viruses. It is alsocustomizable to large degrees. Google's Chrome browser renders pages very fast, though it includes some proprietary (non-open-source) components. Try out Chromium, which is an open-source version of Chrome.

If you are after an FTP client, FireFTP (a Firefox add-on) will do the trick within your browser;FileZilla is a cross-platform FTP client with many features.