Software Equivalence Chart
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Here we list commercial and free/Open Source software equivalents.
Before we start, this excellent list can start you off, being careful of the fact that time changes things VERY FAST in the open source community (OpenOffice, has greatly evolved in the past year.). Open Office Deployment examples
--kyron 13:43, 11 Feb 2006 (EST)
| Category | Commercial | Free | Open Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Office Suite | |||
| spreadsheet, presentation, document edition | Microsoft Office | OpenOffice | |
| Communications PIM | Microsoft Outlook | Evolution, Kontact (linux only) | |
| Graphical image manipulation | |||
| Editing (non vectorial) | Adobe Photoshop | Gimp | |
| Quick (non vectorial) viewing/manipulations (slideshow, batch resizing/renaming) | ACDSee | Irfanview | Gwenview (linux only) |
| Editing (vectorial) | Adobe illustrator | Inkscape | |
| PDF creation | |||
| For normal documents | Adobe | Network printer through Samba or internal OpenOffice PDF exporter | |
| For plans | Adobe | Network printer through Samba | |
| PDF viewing | |||
| Really fast viewing | Foxit Viewer PRO | Foxit Viewer | |
| CAD | |||
| 3D Modeling | 3D Studio Max AutoCAD BrisCAD Checkout the Architecturals product! | Blender (very powerful) | |
| 2D Modeling | AutoCAD BrisCAD Checkout the Architecturals product! | Blender (Maybe) | |
| Publishing | |||
| Professionnal | Adobe Illustrator | Scribus | |
| Scientific | MS Word (!!?) Adobe Illustrator | Scribus Kile (Latex document editor) OpenOffice | |
