We are being asked more and more "What software do you use?" , So  I thought I would knock up a little list of whats used on a day to day basis. Hopefully this will show that other than in a few cases its possible to run a business using OSS.

This wont be an exhaustive list but covers the main programs.

Desktop machines and laptops use Ubuntu this is because its compatible with most common hardware such as printers scanners etc.

Most commonly used Desktop Applications used.

Open Office 3.1

Scribus

Thunderbird

Firefox

Skype

OpenProj

Gimp

Gvim

Wireshark

Ktimetracker

On the servers.

Centos

Apache/Mysql/php

Asterisk

Vtiger

vmware

Now a small confession.

We do have windows machines. and also we do run windows software under Wine and Crossover. 

The only software that the Windows laptop is used for now is realy Sage, and it would be great if this could be run under Wine or Crossover.

And as SaaS takes off more and more it wont be long before the operating system you run wont matter.