Substitute Softwares Between Windows, Linux & Mac OS X

The biggest problem that faced by new user when they’re migrating for a new operating system is knowledge for substitute softwares that will use on new operating system. And usually we will analog with old operating system. So, I want share the substitute software between the most popular operating system in the world are Windows, Linux and MacOS X. I know that’s not the complete list but I hope my article will help you a little bit for migrating to new operating system.

Microsoft Windows
Linux
MacOS X
Image Processing Application
Adobe Photoshop GIMP Adobe Photoshop
ACDSee ShowImg | XnView CocoViewX
Corel Draw Skencil Adobe Illustrator | Adobe Freehand
Office Application
Microsoft Office OpenOffice Microsoft Office 2004 | iWork | NeoOffice
Microsoft Word OpenOffice Writer Microsoft Word 2004 | iWork Pages | NeoOffice Writer
Microsoft Excel OpenOffice Calc Microsoft Excel 2004 | iWork 2008 Numbers | NeoOffice Calc
Microsoft Power Point OpenOffice Impress Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 | iWork Keynote | NeoOffice Impress
Microsoft Draw OpenOffice Draw NeoOffice Drawing
Microsoft Access OpenOffice Base NeoOffice Base
Microsoft FrontPage OpenOffice HTML Editing NeoOffice HTML by Writer | Adobe Dreamweaver | RapidWeaver
Microsoft Project Mr Project Project X
Microsoft Visio Dia | Kivio Omni Graffle
Multimedia Application
Winamp Mplayer iTunes
Windows Media Player XMMS for Linux Quicktime
Instant Messenger Application
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Yahoo Messenger Yahoo Messenger for Linux Yahoo Messenger for MacOS X
Skype for Windows Skype for Linux Skyper for MacOS X
Map Application
Google Earth Google Earth for Linux Google Earth for MacOS X
Browser
Internet Explorer | Firefox | Opera {referal_firefx} | Konqueror | Opera Safari | FireFox | Opera
Email Application
Microsoft Outlook Express KMail | Balsa | Thunderbird Mail | Thunderbird
Database Server
MS SQL Server | MySQL | PostgreSQL MySQL | PostgreSQL MySQL
Oracle for Windows Oracle for Linux Oracle for MacOS X
IBM DB2 for Windows IBM DB2 for Linux
Web Server
Microsoft IIS Apache Server Apache Server
Mail Server
Microsoft Exchange Sendmail | Postfix
Application Server
MS .NET J2EE Application Server
Proxy Server
Wingate | Microsoft ISA Server Squid Proxy
Programming
Visual Basic RealBasic | Gambas RealBasic
CD/DVD Burner
Built In | Nero X-CD-Roast Toast Titanium

I will keep updating this list if I get a new list.

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