How Do You Migrate To Open Source Software?
• Try out OpenOffice.org which is an open source office suite, available for many platforms (including Windows). It ships 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 wordprocessor and Gnumeric is its counterpart spreadsheet program. OpenOffice.org comes installed on many Linux Distributions. • If you have been using Microsoft Outlook for a while, there is an e-mail client called Zimbra that you need to consider and supports almost all of the e-mail providers. It works on Windows. Another e-mail client to consider is Mozilla Thunderbird. • Google’s Chrome browser renders pages very fast. It’s an excellent alternative to Internet Explorer. • Use the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) which is a free alternative to costly raster image processing programs. It is available for Windows as well as Unix-like systems
• Try out OpenOffice.org which is an open source office suite, available for many platforms (including Windows). It ships 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 wordprocessor and Gnumeric is its counterpart spreadsheet program. OpenOffice.org comes installed on many Linux Distributions. • If you have been using Microsoft Outlook for a while, there is an e-mail client called Zimbra that you need to consider and supports almost all of the e-mail providers. It works on Windows. Another e-mail client to consider is Mozilla Thunderbird. • 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 also customizable to large degrees. Google’s Chrome browser renders pages very fast, though it includes some proprie
