Substitute Softwares Between Windows, Linux & Mac OS X

Edi Kwie — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:35:32 +0000

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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