You don’ have to always pay a fortune for business software. Over the last year or so the Open Source community and Web 2.0 community have made huge strides forward in providing excellent downloadable or web-based applications. The content management system which drives this website, WordPress, for instance is completely free.
There are all sorts of free software ideas scattered all over the site, however this site has an excellent collection of Open Source Alternative applications which compete very nicely with the likes of Adobe and Nero.
Whilst they are never going to give you the advanced functionality that a $700 piece of software is going to give you, it is entirely possible you don’t need that advanced functionality (for the moment anyway) and a reduced functionality application which is free will absolutely hit the mark.
Be careful of false economy. Don’t use free software if it’s going to take you twice as long to get things done. I would just recommend pausing before reaching for the credit card…!
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