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.. _commercial-equivalents:

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Open Source equivalents to commonly used software
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Collaboration
=============

+----------------------+--------------------+
| Commercial           | Open Source        |
+======================+====================+
| MS Office Word       | OpenOffice Writer  |
+----------------------+--------------------+
| MS Office Excel      | OpenOffice Calc    |
+----------------------+--------------------+
| MS Office Powerpoint | OpenOffice Impress |
+----------------------+--------------------+
| Mathtype             | OpenOffice Math    |
+----------------------+--------------------+
| Endnote              | Bibus              |
+----------------------+--------------------+

Scientific/Math
===============

+-------------------+-------------+
| Commercial        | Open Source |
+===================+=============+
| Matlab            | QTOctave    |
+-------------------+-------------+
| Mathematica/Maple | WQMaxima    |
+-------------------+-------------+

Computational Fluid Dynamics
============================

+------------+-----------------+
| Commercial | Open Source     |
+============+=================+
| Tecplot    | OpenFOAM/OpenDX |
+------------+-----------------+

Statistical Analysis
====================

+------------+-------------+
| Commercial | Open Source |
+============+=============+
| SAS        | Rkward      |
+------------+-------------+
| SPSS       | PSPP        |
+------------+-------------+

Design/Desktop Publishing
=========================

+--------------+-------------+
| Commercial   | Open Source |
+==============+=============+
| Dreamweaver  | Kompozer    |
+--------------+-------------+
| Photoshop    | Gimp        |
+--------------+-------------+
| Illustrator  | Inkscape    |
+--------------+-------------+
| MS Publisher | Scribus     |
+--------------+-------------+

Utilities
=========

+------------------+-------------+
| Commercial       | Open Source |
+==================+=============+
| Hyperterminal    | Cutecom     |
+------------------+-------------+
| Nero Burning Rom | K3b         |
+------------------+-------------+
| WS FTP           | Filezilla   |
+------------------+-------------+
| iTunes           | Amarok      |
+------------------+-------------+
| Notepad          | Leafpad     |
+------------------+-------------+