Software Giant Killers
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Think you need to cough up large sums of money for an office suite, security tools, and other essential programs? These free and low-cost alternatives provide power without the high price.
'Free software' used to conjure up visions of a half-baked program with an ugly interface that someone cooked up in a garage--usable, but only for limited functions. Today you can find plenty of top-notch programs that look good and work quite well, for little or no cost. But can such software challengers hold their own against the market leaders--and save you a ton of money in the process?
In this article the answer seams to be that the world is finally OPEN for business!
Think you need to cough up large sums of money for an office suite, security tools, and other essential programs? These free and low-cost alternatives provide power without the high price.
'Free software' used to conjure up visions of a half-baked program with an ugly interface that someone cooked up in a garage--usable, but only for limited functions. Today you can find plenty of top-notch programs that look good and work quite well, for little or no cost. But can such software challengers hold their own against the market leaders--and save you a ton of money in the process?
In this article the answer seams to be that the world is finally OPEN for business!
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