Free And Open Source Applications For Small Business

Free And Open Source Applications For Small Business

Apache OpenOffice is an open source office suite.It is similar to Microsoft Office and is very helpful for small business.It is available free of cost.It provide the various usefull programme for small business like word processing (Writer), spreadsheets (Calc), presentations (Impress),formula editor (Math), graphics databases and more.It is available in different languages and compatible with various operating systems.It was released under the SISSL and GNU LGPL licesnse.The commercial support of this product is also available.It has the ability to export file in PDF format.It provide the multiple features to their small business users like better print preview and refined selection visualization,extensions and templates available,performance improvements and unified menu APIs etc.

GnuCash is a free and open source small business financial-accounting software that implements a double entry bookkeeping system.It was released under the GNU GPL and supported different operating system like GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.It is written in C language.It is very helpful for small business like it can be used for to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses.It also provide the features of tracking invoices,account receivable,customers, vendors, jobs,reporting,employee expense voucher,Payroll Management through use of account receivable and account payable,setting up tax tables and applying sales tax on invoices,find depreciation etc.

GIMP is a free and open source image editing tool which is used as a substitute of Photoshop.It is comprehensive professional graphic designers tool.It was began in 1995 and can be used for image editing, resizing, converting, retouching and many more task we can accomplished by using this tool.It supported number of operating system like GNU/Linux,Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista),Mac OS X,Sun OpenSolaris and FreeBSD. It also supported the plugin to enhance the functionality. File format supported by GIMP are JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, PSD by using plugin you can increase the format capability. GIMP provide the customization facility you can change the color,widget,icon size etc. It is very useful for advanced retouching techniques and it also support the various hardware devices. GIMP released under license GNU GPL v3.

Linux is a free and open source operating system it was developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991.Because it is free most of the small business can get benefit from this.Linux operating system also known as fast performing operating system.The interfaces of some Linux distribution are elegant and intuitive, much more so than even Windows or Mac. Unlike Window OS, Linux is an open source and also open publically anyone customize it according to their need. In very start Linux was run on Server OS with the contribution of different people now its used on different platform such like desktop computer, laptop and mobiles.Linux OS are categories in different distributions. Each Linux distribution have some unique features and qualities.