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1The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time
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
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
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
5The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Perl
6The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Wireshark
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
8The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – VNC
9The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – BSD
10The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Webmin
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
12The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Nmap
13The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – OpenOffice.org
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
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
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
17The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Samba
18The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – OpenSSH and OpenSSL
19The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – What Did We Miss?
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
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Linux Distributions