The most important open-source apps

• 2007-05-02
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eWEEK Labs has named the 18 most important open-source applications. These are applications that have helped make open-source technologies integral enterprise tools. In no particular order, here they are:

• Apache
• Linux Kernel
• Nessus
• Firefox
• Perl
• Wireshark
• PHP
• VNC
• BSD
• Webmin
• Asterisk
• Nmap
• OpenOffice.org
• MySQL
• Nagios
• Eclipse
• Samba
• OpenSSH and OpenSSL

I think this is a pretty comprehensive list, and there are only a few on here that I haven’t heard of before.