Business Apps on Linux?

[Alan Dayley]

The term "business applications" encompasses a vast forest of
possibilities.  To properly answer, one must at least define the
species of tree or region of the forest one is speaking about.

CRM?  How about http://www.sugarcrm.com/ or http://www.compiere.com/

Enterprise content management?  http://www.alfresco.com/ or
http://www.knowledgetree.com/ or one of the many wikis

Graphics design? GIMP, InkScape, Krita, etc.

Office stuff? OpenOffice.org, KOffice, Abiword, GNumeric, etc.

Issue tracking? Bugzilla, Mantis, Trac, etc.

Note that my above samples are all Free Software or some flavor of
Open Source.  Closed solutions for each of these categories also
exist, if "running on Linux" is the only criteria.

Also, many different applications are moving to providing the UI in a
browser so the client OS is become less and less relevant.

The choices range from roll-your-own, compile from source to
commercial support you can purchase.  And range from simple and direct
to 3-tier enterprise-wide big stuff.

Comprehensive list? http://freshmeat.net already has close to that in
a database.  Or other sites give huge lists of classes of
applications, like http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ does for content
management systems.

Does that help?

Alan

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>  If you are in a Linux environment, the best alternative to MS Office
> is Google apps.
>
>  -jmz
>
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:33 PM, mike enriquez <mylinux at cox.net> wrote:
>> What Business Applications do you know of that run on Linux. I am going to
>> be speaking to group "hung up" on Windows and I would like to show them a
>> list of all the
>> Applications (Business and Graphics) Applications  that run on Linux. My
>> knowledge is limited to the Open Offfice Applications and what ships with
>> Mandriva Linux.
>> If you know of any application please send me the information about it. I
>> want to put together a comprehensive list. If you would like a copy of this
>> list please let me know and I will send you a copy of what I receive.
>> Thanks
>> Mike Enriquez