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    The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time

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      1The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time

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      The Apache Web server is the only open-source app not only to lead but to dominate in market share (and that includes domination over Microsofts offering in this area, Internet Information Se

      2The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Linux Kernel

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      The Linux kernel project is, quite simply, the engine that drives much of the open-source software world.

      3The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Nessus

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      Nessus, a vulnerability assessment tool, made security testing of IT infrastructure available to the masses.

      4The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Firefox

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      Mozilla predated it, but Firefox reignited the browser wars.

      5The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Perl

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      Although it pre-dates the Web, the Perl scripting language powered the first Web applications.

      6The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Wireshark

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      Wireshark, formerly called Ethereal, is a protocol analyzer that opened the world of network and application troubleshooting to rank-and-file IT staff.

      7The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – PHP

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      PHP is the main open-source option for building dynamic Web sites.

      8The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – VNC

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      VNC, or Virtual Network Computing, provides remote desktop access — free and easy.

      9The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – BSD

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      BSD was one of the main server platforms for the early Web and is still in use at many sites.

      10The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Webmin

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      Bringing Web-based administration to the land of Unix- and Linux-based servers, Webmin offers management modules for scores of different applications.

      11The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Asterisk

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      Asterisk has removed the closed-box mystery of telephony systems.

      12The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Nmap

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      Nmap is a ridiculously useful app for pen testing devices and networks before going live.

      13The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – OpenOffice.org

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      The OpenOffice office productivity suite answered many organizations prayers for a cheaper, sleeker alternative to Microsoft Office.

      14The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – MySQL

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      Its not the right database choice for large enterprise jobs, but MySQL is reliable and speedy, not to mention much simpler than the DB platform behemoths.

      15The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Nagios

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      System and network monitoring was jolted by Nagios, pushing high-end commercial products to innovate while making monitoring a possibility for small and mid-sized organizations.

      16The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Eclipse

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      Its becoming harder and harder to find development tools that arent based on Eclipse.

      17The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Samba

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      Samba provides systems running Linux and Unix with Windows-compatible file and print services.

      18The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – OpenSSH and OpenSSL

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      OpenSSH and OpenSSL help keep the Webs secrets secret.

      19The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – What Did We Miss?

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      What did we miss? What’s here that shouldnt be? Drop a line to Debra Donston at debra_donston@ziffdavis.com and we may include your choice in a future slideshow.

      20The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time

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