Open Source Software Reviews

JBoss is an Open Source, standards-compliant Java application server. It is a J2EE certified platform for developing and deploying enterprise Java applications, web applications and portals. JBoss offers full range of J2EE 1.4 features along with extended enterprise services, which includes clustering, caching and persistence.

Grip is a CD player and CD ripper for the GNOME desktop. It provides the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in. However, it can also use external rippers such as, cdda2wav. Grip also provides an automated front-end for MP3 encoders (presets for lame, bladeenc, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3encode, and gogo), allowing you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s.

Cygwin is a set of tools for providing UNIX or Linux like environments to Windows. It consists of two parts – a DLL (cygwin1.dll), which acts as a UNIX/Linux API emulation layer providing substantial API functionality and a collection of tools to provide Linux look and feel.

Cinelerra is a complete audio and video production environment for Linux. It handles all your audio and video editing needs like recording, editing and playback. Apart from this, Cinelerra can even work as a photo retoucher.

NetMRG is network monitoring, reporting and graphing tool. The tool is so much powerful that it can handle thousands of arbitrary values in user defined intervals. The software is also quite intelligent to respond to the programmable events.

is an XML editor. It supports XML schemas, DTDs and all other features of XML. It helps the users to create documentation and presentation. What XML schema actually does is that it validates the XML document according to a predefined format that has been specified in the XML schema file.

SQL Ledger is an open source accounting software. For storing data in backend SQL Server is used and data can be displayed in any text or GUI browser. If any sales or purchase operation is performed then accounts is automatically updated by SQL Ledger.

APB stands for Active PHP Bookmark. It is a bookmark manager, which was originally developed by Brandon Stone. APB helps the users to save the bookmarks and provides the privileges to make the bookmarks visible in a compatible way.

PGMarket stands for Portable General Market. It is an e-commerce site from where the users can shop online. The users of PGMarket may be of two types - registered or unregistered.

While unregistered users can browse the website and select their products you have to be a registered users to purchase a product from PGMarket. The unregistered users can navigate through the website and see the products images, price etc. and can add the products to their shopping cart. From shopping cart when they want to purchase the products they will be asked to login with correct user name and password with which they have registered to the system.

The unixODBC Project goals are to develop and promote unixODBC to be the definitive standard for ODBC on non MS Windows platforms. This software includes GUI support for both KDE and GNOME.

ODBC is a specification for providing application developers with a predictable API, with which they can access Data Sources. Data Sources include SQL Servers and any Data Source with an ODBC Driver. unixODBC is a complete open source ODBC solution developed for UNIX or Linux platforms.