Free Software :: Business Software

Business Software Portals

• SourceForge Business/Office Projects
• SourceForge Financial and Insurance Industry Projects
• FreshMeat Business/Office Projects
• GNUe (GNU Enterprise. Project portal for business software) (cvs) (ml)
• KDE Enterprise (KDE resources for businesses) (ml)

Office Software (excluding Web Groupware)

• KOffice (KDE based desktop suite. Including: KWord, KSpread, KPresenter, Kivio, Kontour, Krayon, Kugar, KPlato, and more.) (ml)
• Kontact (Personal information management suite. Including: KMail, KAddressbook, KOrganizer, Knotes, and more) (KDE-PIM) (cvs) (ml)
• GNOME Office (GNOME based desktop suite. Including: AbiWord, Gnumeric, Evolution, Mozilla, Gimp, GnuCash, MrProject, and more.) (ml)
• OpenOffice ('Visual Class Library' toolkit based office desktop suite contributed by Sun Microsystem) (ml) (forums) (blog) (wp)
• S5 (CSS/Javascript based HTML slide-show software. License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0)
• Slidy (CSS/Javascript based HTML slide-show software. License: ?)
• Slides.sh (Bash script for creating an HTML slide-show from a simple text file format)
• Magic Point (Tool for for creating an X based slide-show from a simple text file format. License: BSD-style) (ml)
• Pointless (Presentation tool which ouputs FreeType/Op*nGL based presentations) (ml)
• pylize (Python based presentation tool which ouputs HTML based presentations)

Office Software Related

• Thin Clients (from the Network Services section)
• Web Browsing Clients (from the Network Services section)
• Printing Systems (from the Network Services section)
• Communication Servers (For email, groupware, chat, fax, phone, teleconferences, etc.)
• Communication Clients
• Database Systems (from the Database section)
• Text Management (from the Text Management section)

Web Groupware

• GroupDAV (Initiative to create simple protocol to connect free groupware clients with OpenSource groupware servers) (ml)
• OpenGroupware (PHP based groupware suite) (cvs) (ml) (forum) (wp)
• phpGroupWare (PHP based groupware suite) (cvs) (ml) (forums)
• Group-Office (PHP based groupware suite) (cvs) (ml) (forum)
• more.groupware (PHP based groupware suite. License: BSD-style and some parts GNU GPL) (cvs) (ml)
• PHProjekt (PHP based groupware suite)
• Bongo (Groupware suite, based on the former Hula project)
• EGS ("Enterprise Groupware System". PHP based groupware suite.) (cvs) (ml)
• eGroupWare (PHP based groupware suite) (cvs) (ml) (wp)
• Covide (PHP based Dutch-language groupware suite) (cvs) (ml)
• NullLogic Groupware (C based groupware suite) (ml) (forums)

Project Management

• OpenPSA (PHP/Midgard based websuite of Project Management, Helpdesk and Sales tools)
• Planner (GNOME based project management tool) (ml)
• TUTOS ("The Ultimate Team Organisation Software". PHP based group project management system, including calendaring, email, timetracking, tasks and document revisioning.) (cvs) (ml)
• MrProject (GNOME based project management application. Inactive project.)

Calendaring and Scheduling

• PHP-Calendar (PHP/MySQL based project calendaring system) (cvs) (ml)
• PBCS (PHP based project management calendaring system) (forum)
• ACal (PHP based web calendar, which does not need a RDBMS) (svn) (forum)
• Plans (Perl based web calendar) (forum)
• Employee Scheduler (Perl script to help setup the most efficient schedule, given a matrix of number of employees per hour per weekday)
• FET ("Free Evolutionary Timetabling". Qt based tool for creating the timetable of a school or university)
• when (Perl based command-line calendar for personal use)

Corporate Accounting and Payroll Software

• phpBMS (PHP/MySQL based billing, scheduling, and client management system) (forum)
• SQL-Ledger (RDBMS/Perl based double entry accounting system) (ml)
• OSRAIDS ("Online Service Recording, Accounting, Invoicing, and Documenting System". PHP/MySQL/FPDF based system for creating PDF formatted invoices for a service or consulting businesses.) (cvs) (ml) (forum)
• Freeside (RDBMS/Perl based billing and account administration package for Internet service providers) (cvs) (ml)
• PayThyme (Python/Qt based UK statutory payroll system)

SOHO Accounting

• GnuCash (GNOME based personal finance management tool) (ml)
• Kmymoney2 (KDE based personal finance management tool) (cvs) (ml)
• Grisbi (GTK+ based personal finance management tool) (ml)
• Brinance (Command-line based personal finance management tool)

Resource Management

• OpenTaps (Java/MySQL based ERP system)
• Tiny ERP (Python/GTK+ based ERP and CRM system) (ml) (forum)

Content Management

• Content Management Software (from the Content Management section)

Customer Relationship Management Software

• Request Tracker (RDBMS/Perl based ticket handling system) (ml)
• phpBMS (PHP/MySQL based billing, scheduling, and client management system) (forum)
• Eventum (PHP/MySQL based issue tracking system) (ml)
• OTRS ("Open Ticket Request System". Perl based issue tracking system.) (cvs) (ml)
• Tekrat (PHP based issue tracking system) (cvs)
• BTT ("Bluetail Ticket Tracker". Erlang based issue tracking system.) (cvs) (ml)
• CRM-CTT (PHP based CRM system) (forum)
• CitrusDB (PHP/MySQL based CRM system) (forum)
• LCM ("Legal Case Management". PHP/MySQL based legal case management system, aimed for use by not-for-profit legal advice organizations) (cvs) (ml)
• SugarCRM (PHP/MySQL based CRM system. License: Sugar Public License) (cvs) (ml) (forum)
• vtiger CRM (SugarCRM based CRM system. Extra licenses: vtiger Public License and vtiger CRM License) (cvs) (forum)

Financial Stock Management

• Gepolabo (GTK+ based stock trading analysis tool) (cvs) (ml)
• smtm ("Show Me The Money". Perl/Tk based global stock ticker and graphing tool)
• LinuxTrade (Ncurses based USA stock information streamer)
• xTrader (Qt based technical stock analysis tool for simple portfolios. Inactive project. License: QPL)
• MaWaTT (Set of console tools to evaluate, compare and test strategies for entering and exiting trades, money management and risk limitation.) (ml)

E-Commerce Software

• VirtueMart (Mambo/PHP/MySQL based shopping-cart system) (cvs) (forums)
• Interchange (Perl/MySQL based ecommerce system)
• osCommerce (PHP/MySQL based shopping-cart system) (cvs) (ml) (forums)
• Zen Cart (PHP/MySQL based shopping-cart system. osCommerce code-fork.) (cvs) (ml) (forums)
• Php-MutiShop (PHP/MySQL based shopping-cart system) (cvs)
• pnCommerce (PHP/Postnuke based shopping-cart system) (cvs)