When it comes to ‘enterprise’ software solutions, usually they have one thing in common: they are expensive. While many software packages are worth the price, in my experience more times than not they not worth their weight. The perfect solution sometimes is open source and/or free software. The price is right and if you are willing to ’self support’, usually it can fill the part nicely. If you are looking for a quick reference for free products compared to their commercial counterparts, check this this article titled ‘The 25 Best Alternatives To Your Enterprise Applications & Functions‘.

The author covers a list of, guess, 25 different open source and freely available applications which tackle enterprise level functionality. With the economy in the state it is in, some of these are simply to appealing to pass up, so give them a look.