The Best Open Source Business Software and Solutions for the Business Enterprise

Everystockphoto.com is a license-specific photo search engine. Currently they index and search millions of freely licensed photos, from many sources, and present them in an integrated search. Everystockphoto.com was launched in April 2006, and is owned and operated by Vibrant Software, located in Vancouver, Canada. Membership is free and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos.

Everystockphoto.com aims to become a leading portal for the stock photography community, and will be adding features, and increasing our index over time. You can keep up-to-date with their progress in their blog. You can learn more about the photos they index, and the licenses they are covered under, in their help section.

Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.

Briefly…

Attribution means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit.

Noncommercial means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work - and derivative works based upon it - but for noncommercial purposes only.

No Derivative Works means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

Share Alike means:
You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

Zimbra is open source server and client software for messaging and collaboration - email, group calendaring, contacts, and web document management and authoring. The Zimbra server is available for Linux, Mac OS X, appliances, and virtualization platforms. The Zimbra Web 2.0 Ajax client runs on Firefox, Safari, and IE, and features easy integration / mash-ups of web portals, business applications, and VoIP using web services.

Ajax based web collaboration is at the heart of ZCS 5.0. The powerful web client integrates email, contacts, shared calendar, VoIP, and online document authoring into a rich browser-based interface. Also, their unique open source Zimlet technology makes it easy for you to include custom ‘mash-ups’ in the ZCS web client.

ZCS 5.0 also includes an elegant Ajax based Admin Interface plus full scripting tools to manage the ZCS server. Full support is provided for standards-based APIs (IMAP / POP / iCal / CalDAV) as well as MAPI and iSync, which enable seamless compatibility with other clients like Microsoft Outlook, Apple desktop suite, and Mozilla Thunderbird.

Zimbra also offers Zimbra Mobile, which provides over-the-air “push” synchronization to smartphones as well as a Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

The Zimbra solution also has a complete high security package including built-in anti-spam and anti-virus scanning.

Now Zimbra also features Archiving and Discovery, an optional component to save and search email for various compliance issues.

Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) is an open source VoIP and video conferencing application for GNOME. Ekiga uses both the H.323 and SIP protocols. It supports many audio and video codecs, and is interoperable with other SIP compliant software and also with Microsoft NetMeeting.

• SIP Compliant
• Registrar Support
• Possibility to Simultaneously Register to Several Accounts
• Proxy Support
• Outbound Proxy Support
• Call Hold
• Call Transfer
• Call Forwarding on No Answer, on Busy, Always
• Configurable Port Ranges
• Instant Messaging
• DTMFs Support
• Message Waiting Indications Support
• ENUM Support
• Transparent NAT Support, Assisted NAT Support (STUN, IP Translation)
• SIP re-INVITE support

What is Asterisk
Asterisk is the world’s leading open source telephony engine and tool kit. Offering flexibility unheard of in the world of proprietary communications, Asterisk empowers developers and integrators to create advanced communication solutions…for free.

Asterisk® is released as open source under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and it is available for download free of charge. Asterisk® is the most popular open source software available, with the Asterisk Community being the top influencer in VoIP.
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webERP is a complete web based accounting/ERP system that requires only a web-browser and pdf reader to use. It has a wide range of features suitable for many businesses particularly distributed businesses in wholesale and distribution. It is developed as an open-source application and is available as a free download to use. The feature set is continually expanding as new businesses and developers adopt it. There have been in excess of 80,000 downloads to date.

The growth of webERP adoption has been entirely through word of mouth testimony - there has never been a marketing or advertising push to “sell” webERP. Of course there are no funds nor commercial incentive to do so for free software. Instead this growth is built on reputation and solid practical functionality that works as tried and tested by an increasing number of businesses.

FrontAccounting is a simple, but powerful, system for the entire ERP chain and covers:

• Purchase Orders
• Goods Receivable Notes
• Supplier Invoices/Credit Notes
• Payments
• Allocations
• Accounts Payable
• Items and Inventory
• Stock
• Manufacturing
• Sales Orders
• Customer Invoices/Credit Notes
• Deposits
• Allocations
• Accounts Receivable
• Dimensions
• General Ledger with Budget
• Languages
• Currencies
• Several Companies

What is eyeOS?

eyeOS is an Open Source Platform designed to hold a wide variety of Web Applications over it. eyeOS was thought as a new definition of Operating System, where everything inside it can be accessed from everywhere in a Network. All you need to do is to login into your eyeOS server with a normal Internet Browser, and access your personal desktop, with your applications, documents, music, movies… just like you left it last time.

With the base system you can find a full suite of applications bundled, some for private use, like the file manager, a word processor, a music player, calendar, notepad or contacts manager. There are also some groupware applications, such as a group manager, a file sharing application, a group board and many more.

eyeOS is Open Source, licensed under the GNU Affero Public License version 3 (AGPL3), which means that you can have your own private eyeOS server for your Family and Friends, Company or Web Network, completely free. But it also means you can browse through the eyeOS source code and access the eyeOS development tools to customize your system and develop new applications that fit your specific needs.

If you want to start using eyeOS, you can join the International eyeOS free server, or create your own eyeOS server easily and be able to decide who can join it and customize it to your needs.

Creating your own eyeOS server is actually very easy. All you need is a web server with PHP support, and even without that, you will find complete solutions that will install all you need to start using eyeOS in a few minutes.

Plazma ERP+CRM software provides the following benefits:
Accounts Management: Accumulate all your accounts and opportunities in a single database. Maximize team selling effectiveness by combining all account data in one place. This includes orders, contacts, tasks, emails, files, comment. Segment all your accounts by groups and categories.

Contacts Management: Enables management of your contacts effectively with the history of all negotiations, phone calls, tasks, meetings, emails and documents. The Plazma ERP+CRM powerful search engine helps you to track down key information quickly using various characteristics.

Sales Management: Capture and reference key information relating to sales opportunities. Forecast revenue and measure sales process effectiveness. Track opportunity status and dates. Analyze sales by manager, product, customer segment. View all actions, mails and documents related to sale.

Tasks Management: Manage schedules and keep track of activities and events for multiple users. Track phone calls, meetings, to-dos, events, and literature requests. Monitor the work schedule of your employees. View all tasks per sales opportunity, account or contact.

Campaigns Management: Plan and track your marketing campaigns. Analyze campaign results. Compare campaigns effectiveness. Optimize your marketing expences.

Products Management: Accumulate all your product information providing and maximizing all product sales opportunities. Maximize team selling effectiveness by combining all contacts to products.

Analytical Reports: Analyze the effectiveness of your sales team. Generate activity reports. Analyze sales forecast and results. Export data from any grid to PDF, HTML, XLS

AtMail is an open source webmail client written in PHP. AtMail aims to provide a elegant Ajax webmail client for existing IMAP mailservers, with less bloat and a focus on an intuitive, simple user interface.

The open source version of AtMail provides users with a lightweight, yet powerful webmail client. The software can be installed on a variety of platforms with ease and without the hassles that most webmail platforms impart.

Traditional desktop mail clients are in decline; the future of email is via a web interface. AtMail is poised to deliver the next generation in Open Source Webmail.