Open Source Software Reviews

NOLA is the open source PHP based program for business class accounting and inventory management. The programming language of NOLA software is PHP and SQL. NOLA is a free application produced under the GNU General Public License by Fostoria, Ohio-based Noguska LLC, a company that has been writing software since 1978.

CheckBook Tracker is a fully functional money management system, which is developed by Tony Maro. CheckBook Tracker has the feel and features of packages like Microsoft Money without requiring the user to build their own sources or find an RPM for their distribution.

Bidwatcher is the open source auction tool for e-Bay users. The software is created by Trent and Tom McNair. The Unix or Linux base of the software makes it easy to operate and install on the computer. Only the e-Bay username of the user is required and Bidwatcher does the other operations of bidding.

PayPal Shopping Cart, commonly known as PPCal Shopping Cart is the open source software to integrate and manage the PayPal payments on the website. PPCal software supports multiple HTML templates and thus it is recognized as user friendly. The templates give customize look of the web catalog to match the look of the rest of the site.

Papyrus is an XML reporting engine for Linux. It generates reports from a variety of different SQL databases. PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle databases support Papyrus to generate reports. The reporting is done in two phases. SQL statements and equations are done in the first phase. All the required formatting and layout are managed in the second phase. The reports are generated and represented correctly in PDF, XML, HTML, PostScript, DVI or ANSI-text format, with required support for the user.

Freeside is an open source billing and account administration package for ISPs and Online Business. It is developed and distributed by Silicon Interactive Software Design (SISD). Freeside uses web interface that makes it simple to setup and to use.

Siag Office is the open source office package written in C and Scheme. The operating system that is required to run the Siag Office package is Linux. The package contains Spreadsheet Siag, the word processor PW, the animation program Egon, the text editor XedPlus, the file manager Xfiler and the previewer Gvu.

Turba is a series of PHP scripts that implement a contact directory and management interface. It is a Horde contact management application, which makes heavy use of Horde applications to provide integration and other Horde management programs. The Horde applications help to create distribution lists from your address books. These are handled by IMP or other Horde applications.

xdTV is a free software, which helps you to watch and stream TV. It uses the video4linux API and interacts with aleVT for teletext and Nxtvepg for NextView. xdTV: CVS[concurrent versions system] is a tool used by many software developers to deal with changes in their source code trees. It helps to store not only the present version of source codes; it also records all types of changes that have taken place on the source codes.

Analog is a simple WWW log file analysis program, which is used to measure the usage on your web server. The installation is very easy and ultra-fast. It is flexible, produces attractive outputs, contains multi-language support, absorbs all types of log file format, can either be run directly or from a form interface and easily works on any operating system. Analog is scalable, highly configurable and reports in 32 languages.