Open Source software components generally lower the initial capital costs of software projects, and may also improve the total costs associated with operating and maintaining the software. We are always looking for software that benefits our clients, and provide recommendations as appropriate. Here are a few open-source packages that have caught our attention:

Office Productivity Software OpenOffice Mozilla, Firefox, and Thunderbird	Programming PHP, Python, Perl MySQL and PostgreSQL
Operating System Environments The Linux kernel The Debian Project The KDE desktop environment	Antivirus and File Sharing ClamAV Antivirus Software Samba