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Open Source & Shareware Favorites
Seamus has been researching, using, testing and even developing open source and shareware for a long time. As software costs escalate, it has become important for small outfits such as his, to seriously adopt open source and shareware software.
As a small firm running Macs (OS X primarily), we have migrated slowly and steadily to use many of the publicly available open source and shareware software applications. We maintain properly licensed commercial software such as MS Office for our small team, but progressively, for the long term, we foresee open source and shareware adoption as a logical growth path.
For example, Abiword works like any mainstream word processor and can save and edit MS Word files. Likewise, NeoOfficeJ, which is a native Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.org, offers all the word processing, spreadsheet, drawing and even presentation features, and allows the saving and editing of native MS Word, Excel and even PowerPoint files. A powerful and completely free photo and image editor is GIMP, which offers all the functionality of Adobe Photoshop. If you just need to tweak your digital camera photos, you can use the simple image and photo editor Seashore (based on GIMP with a simple interface). If you have used Macromedia Freehand or Adobe Illustrator, you would also appreciate the open source Cenon, or the reasonably priced commercial software Intaglio (US$89).
Open source software adoption allows small (or large) firms to tap on comprehensive features, without the problems of licensing and the constraints of high costs. There is some learning curve, but the end results are reasonable for budget-constrained practices. Likewise, the cheaper shareware such as Photofix and Intaglio also reduces some of the budgetary constraints.
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Seamus Phan
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