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Datamation Collects Over 100 Enterprise Open Source Apps

We've reported before on how the gloomy economic environment is increasing enterprise adoption of open source software, and we're not the only ones. As we reported here, when respondents to North Bridge Partners' Future of Open Source Survey were asked if the economic downturn is having a good or bad effect on open source, a whopping 96 percent of survey respondents answered "good." That was up from 81 percent in last year's survey. Notably, though, many of those same survey respondents felt that lack of awareness of open source alternatives to proprietary software is a significant obstruction to open source adoption in enterprises.

I've thought of all of these things as I've been sifting through Datamation's exhaustive "101 Open Source Apps for Enterprises" collection. It contains lots of surprises, and applications that many companies should look into.

The Datamation post breaks out enterprise open source tools by categories, ranging from Accounting, to Human Resources, to Customer Relationship Management applications. One thing that really jumped out at me from the collection was how many enterprise resource planning (ERP) and back-office applications were cited. I didn't know about quite a few of them.

Each of the applications listed in Datamation's collection has a good, descriptive writeup, and there are citations for applications where commercial support is available. The list is worth checking out.

For several of OStatic's own most popular open source application and resource collections, see this post.  

• CRM
• enterprise
• datamation
• ERP

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