On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 13:47 -0800, Jon Walker wrote: > John Cherry wrote: > > >On a related note, is anyone aware of a place where users could go to > >find open source alternatives to these applications? I'm not talking > >about googling for projects or scanning the open source foundries, but a > >place where a user could just find a Quickbooks or Autocad replacement? > > > > > > > Here is a resource that I have used in the past. > > http://osswin.sourceforge.net/ > > It is not the most beautiful site, it would be great if it matched up > applications with their windows counterparts (e.g. Photoshop->GIMP) and > search would be nice but it seems fairly complete to me:
Yes, matching windows counterparts would be very helpful. Rather than say that something is a scalar vector graphics program, you could say that it is a Visio replacement. It appears there is also a nice reference on Wikipedia that could be leveraged for this... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_software_packages thanks, John
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