Building the Ultimate Free Suite of Business Applications

by Sam Dean - Mar. 11, 2008Comments (3)

The other day I did a post on how to combine open source and freeware applications for a complete arsenal of applications at no cost. Several readers weighed in with their suggestions for completing the same exercise. Today, over at our sister site Web Worker Daily, Aliza Sherman is reporting on how she's outfitted a new computer with slick applications without spending a dime. Her choices lean heavily toward open source applications, including NeoOffice (a cool port of OpenOffice to the Mac OS), OpenOffice, GIMP and Coda. Check out her complete report, amusingly entitled How to Be a Productive Cheapskate.

Do you have your own recipe for a free suite of good applications?


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Use Google Docs, Google Apps & Google Sites and you should have all the productivity tools you need...


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For an alternative way to combine a free operating system with loads of free applications, see the reader comments to the Freespire post, and how the CNR service is now free: http://ostatic.com/158427-blog/freespire-an-open-os-but-proprietary-is-n...


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I guess one option is to be 'cheap'. The other, however, is to be flexible and cutting edge. For example, if you really want to have a standards compliant browser, can you afford to not go with an Open-Source option like Firefox? If you want to seamlessly access non-exchange servers and share calendars, can you go with Exchange and Outlook?


One aspect is definitely cost, but I think the other aspect is flexibility, which seems to be taking a back seat.


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