Open Source Comparisons

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Technology

Open

Proprietary

Server Operating Systems

Linux, FreeBSD

Windows, Solaris/AIX/Unix, Mainframe

Business Desktop Operating System

Linux

Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac

Home Operating Systems

Suse Linux, Mandrake Linux

Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac

RDBMS

MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird

Oracle, SQL Server, others

Web Servers

Apache

IIS, Netscape

Application Servers

Tomcat, JBoss

WebLogic, WebSphere, IIS.NET

Content Management Systems

Mambo, PHPFusion, osCommerce

Vignette, Microsoft SharePoint

http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=388&Itemid=143

Source Control Systems, SCM

CVS, PVCS, Subversion, GNU Arch, Monotome

SourceSafe, Surround SCM, Others

Development IDEs

Eclipse, Gel, Textpad

Visual Studio.NET, JBuilder, NetBeans

Legacy Integration, Middleware, EAI

Openadaptor

Tibco, Vitria

Distributed Component Managers

openccm, JADE

Tibco, Windows OS, J2EE Servers, inetd, DCOM, RMI, Corba Servers

Programming Language Frameworks

Java, C/C++, Perl, PHP

C#, VB.NET, SmallTalk, Ada

Office Applications

OpenOffice

Microsoft Office, WordPerfect Office, AppleWorks/ClarisWorks, StarOffice

http://ooosmp.homelinux.org/ProductReview/FeaturesAndBenefits, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office

Web Browser

Firefox, Mozilla

IE, Netscape, others

Any Random Need

Yes

maybe

"If you're in need of a software solution, the odds are good that you'll find an open-source project related to your problem. Free. No sales calls. No negotiations with vendors." -- http://www.cio.com/archive/030105/opensource_report.html

Links

Microsoft Versus

http://www.msversus.org/taxonomy/term/22

Open Source Considerations

http://www.msversus.org/node/36

http://perens.com/Articles/Economic.html

CIO Magazine Pro OpenSource

http://www.cio.com/archive/030104/open.html

Version Control Software

http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html#repos_operations

http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/scm.html

Distributed Components

http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/open-source-agent-java/view

Corba

http://openccm.objectweb.org/

SOA summary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture

Distributed Computing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing

Middleware

http://middleware.objectweb.org/

EAI summary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Application_Integration

ESB buzzword

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid26_gci1049505,00.html

http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/IBM+plans+bus+technology+ride/2100-7343_3-5262604.html

Open Source Links

http://www.cio.com/archive/030105/opensource_sidebar_one.html

Open Source CMS List

http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=388&Itemid=143

Web Browsers

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp