Microsoft Tools Vs Open Source Tools

           There are many open-source spread sheet programs like Gnumeric, GNU Oleo, KSpread,  OpenOffice.org Calc, SIAG, Simple Spreadsheet and wikiCalc. Gnumeric has windows installers and comes inclusive of GNOME desktop and transfer data in various file formats like LaTeX,Microsoft Excel or HTML. It is mainly helpful with scientific and statistical tasks. While GNU Oleo is a lightweight spreadsheet package older than Gnumeric, KSpread is part of KDE Desktop Environment and OpenOffice.Org is part of Openoffice.org package and the rest are also equally capable free spreadsheet programs (Auza, 2008).

             There are many open source databases like Apache Derby, Cassandra, Memcached, Mongo DB,Neo4j ,Hypertable to mention a few. Apache Derby is under the Apache License and an open source relational database fully implemented in Java(“Open Source Database Engines in Java”,2010). Cassandra is distributed open source database used by social networking sites like Facebook,Twitter and Digg(“25+ Alternative & Open Source Database Engines”,2010).

            Among the open source word processing programs,OpenOffice.org, K-Office, Bean, AbiWord(Granneman,2005) are prominent ones. Bean is rich-text editor and easy-to-use word processor useful for making convenient writing (Hoover, 2009). Following is price comparison table (Gupta, 2010) for open-source software and proprietary software.

          Regarding choice of OS, I would like to go for open source software, because of the heterogeneity, compatibility, flexibility and security it offers.

References

“25+ Alternative & Open Source Database Engines”(2010).WebResources Depot.Retrieved January 25,2011 from  http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/25-alternative-open-source-databases-engines/.

Auza,J.(2008,Mar.4).”Free/Open Spreadsheets”.TechSource.Retrieved January 25,2011 from http://www.junauza.com/2008/04/freeopen-source-spreadsheet-programs.html.

Granneman,S.(2005,Nov.8).”3 open source word processors compared”,The OpenSourceBlog. Retrieved January 25,2011 from http://opensource.weblogsinc.com/2005/11/08/3-open-source-word-processors-compared/.

Gupta,M.(2010,Feb 22).Price Comparison Table:When or When not to use Open Source LMS.G-CUBE SOLUTIONS. Retrieved January 25,2011 from http://www.gc-solutions.net/blog/?p=55.

Hoover,J(2009,Jan.24).“Bean:a free word processor for OSX”. Retrieved January 25,2011 from http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html.

“Open Source Database Engines in Java”(2010).Retrieved January 25,2011from http://java-source.net/open-source/database-engines.

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