Open Source Software Reviews

Babeldoc is a framework and set of applications to process documents for business-to-business and other Internet/Integration application. Babeldoc is open source software and is written in Java. It was primarily intended for text documents specially XML, but supports wide range of operations and data types.

OpenEMR is the open source Practice Management and EMR, which is written in PHP and works on Linux operating system. The OpenEMR software was originally developed by Syntech. OpenEMR and released under the terms of GNU General Public License. OpenEMR is suitable for clinics of ten or more physicians to implement and configure.

PHPlot is the open source PHP graphics class for creating charts and plots in native PHP and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The programming language of PHPlot is PHP itself and it runs on any operating system. PHPlot is a graphic class for PHP3 and PHP4. It supports GD 1.2-1.8.3, i.e., GIF, WBMP, JPEG, PNG, etc. and TTF fonts. Even without TTF fonts one can run the graphics class PHPlot.

SimpleData is the open source web application to provide complete sales automation and inventory control solution. The SimpleData software is written in Php and can run on Linux, Unix, Windows NT/2000/XP, and MacOS X operating systems.

Monetra is the open source scalable Payment Processing Engine designed in C and developed by Main Street Softworks, Inc. The current version of Monetra is compatible with most of the operating systems like SCO UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, Mac OSX, FreeBSD, IBM AIX and MS Windows. Licensing and pricing of Monetra are based solely on required software functionality.

KmyMoney is the open source personal finance application software, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). KmyMoney is developed in C++ and runs on the Linux operating system. The KmyMoney financial application supports KDE environment and is similar to Microsoft Money.

Grisbi is the open source, simple and intuitive, personal accounting software, which is written in the programming language C and produced by Grisbi team under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

PHP – Residence is an open source program with web interface, developed to manage the weekly or daily rental of house apartments, residence and hotel rooms. The PHP – Residence software is written in PHP and SQL. PostgreSQL and MySQL databases are the backend databases, which support the PHP – Residence to run. With PHP-Residence, reservations can be assigned to an apartment automatically with user-defined rules. PHP – Residence is released under GNU GPL license (free and modifiable).

ClosedShop is the open source shopping attempt to provide an easy to setup, manage and utilize shopping cart. Based on Perl and MySQL, ClosedShop aims to provide all the features a commercial shopping cart offers, without any cost. ClosedShop is independent to run at any operating system.

Beancounter enables stock market data analysis and performance evaluation. The software is open source software and released under GNU General Public License (GPL).

Beancounter is written in Perl and SQL. The software runs independently on any operating system. Beancounter has two main modes.