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Though Linux is an open-source operating system and usually comes bundled with free and open source software, proprietary software for Linux does exist and is available to end-users.

The following is a list of proprietary software for Linux:

Contents 1 Networking 1.1 Web Browser/s 1.2 E-mail Client/s 1.3 E-mail Client / PIM in MS Outlook Style 1.4 Newsreader/s 1.5 FTP Client/s 1.6 Firewall (packet filtering) 1.7 Visual traceroute 1.8 P2P File Sharing 1.9 "Hotline" P2P protocol clients/servers 1.10 Multifunction sound modem program/s 1.11 Fax software 1.12 Network maintenance 1.13 Routing 1.14 Distributed Computing 2 Desktop/System software 2.1 Work with files 2.1.1 Console Archiver/s 2.1.2 Desktop search 2.2 PDF viewer 2.3 PDF Authoring 2.4 Cryptography 2.5 Scanner utilities 2.6 Antivirus 2.7 Bootloading 2.8 Hard disk partitioning 2.9 Backup software 2.10 PIM / DB / Hierarchical notebook with tree view 3 Multimedia 3.1 Audio/Video 3.1.1 MP3 Encoding 3.1.2 Multimedia Player 3.2 Graphics 3.2.1 Graphics viewers/editors 3.2.2 Professional Graphics Editors 3.2.3 Digital imaging 3.2.4 Vector Graphics Editor/s 3.2.5 Flash Player 3.2.6 3D Graphics 3.3 Video, etc. 3.3.1 Simple/Professional Video Production Environment 3.3.2 Creation of 2D and 3D Effects 3.3.3 Miscellaneous 4 Office/Business 4.1 Office suites 4.2 Word Processor 4.3 Spreadsheets 4.4 Presentations 4.5 Local database 4.6 E-Commerce and Web Business 4.7 Personal Finance Manager 4.8 Financial Accounting 4.9 Enterprise Automation (Russian) 4.10 Collaboration Software 4.11 Project Management 4.12 Communications software 5 Games 6 Programming and development 6.1 C++ IDEs 6.2 CASE 6.2.1 CASE-facility for UML 6.2.2 Top-level CASE System 6.3 Compilers 6.4 CVS 6.5 HTML/DHTML Editor 6.6 InterBase/Firebird IDE 6.7 Java IDE 6.8 Memory Leak Tracing 6.9 Object Pascal IDE 6.10 Perl/Python/Tcl IDE 6.11 Prolog 6.12 WYSIWYG HTML Editor 7 Servers 7.1 WWW 7.2 DB Engine 7.3 E-mail / PIM / GroupWare Servers 7.4 Product data/product lifecycle management (PDM/PLM) 7.5 Proxy 7.6 Cluster Filesystems 8 Miscellaneous applications 8.1 Mathematics 8.2 3D Modelling 8.3 CAD/CAM/CAE 8.4 Diagram and Chart Designing 8.5 HDD testing/benchmarking 9 Emulators 9.1 Video game console emulators 9.2 Virtual Machine Emulator 9.3 Windows Compatibility Layer 10 See also 11 References

Networking

Web Browser/s

• Netscape — freeware, last Linux version is 7.2
• Opera — desktop versions free of charge, multiplatform since version 3.0 in 1998

E-mail Client/s

• Bynari Insight Connector

E-mail Client / PIM in MS Outlook Style

• Bynari
• Lotus Notes 8.0.0 for Linux/x86 (Red Hat and SuSE initially)^[1]
• Lotus Notes 8.0.1, 8.5 beta for Linux^[2] (Red Hat, SuSE, and for Debian based distributions as well, no official internal support for Debian packages)
• Zarafa Outlook Sharing

Newsreader/s

• Netscape — freeware, Linux version until 7.2
• Opera — free of charge for desktop systems, multiplatform since version 3.0 in 1998.

FTP Client/s

• IglooFTP PRO for Linux
• Pro:Atria Ltd SFTPPlus
• Xellsoft.com SynchronEX+

Firewall (packet filtering)

• SmoothWall Corporate — A closed fork of SmoothWall, targeted at enterprise and corporate users

Visual traceroute

• VisualRoute

P2P File Sharing

• MetaMachine eDonkey2000 — latest release from 25.07.2005.
• Loophole (WinMX protocol) — WinMX servers down since 09.2005.

"Hotline" P2P protocol clients/servers

• GHX

Multifunction sound modem program/s

• PrimaFax

Fax software

• Esker Fax
• Esker VSI-FAX
• Fax2Send
• FAXCOM
• MessagePlus/Open
• U-Fax

Network maintenance

• HP Openview agents

Routing

• GateD

Distributed Computing

• Portable Batch System PBS Gridworks

Desktop/System software

Work with files

Console Archiver/s

• RAR

Desktop search

• Google Desktop 1.0, released June 27, 2007

PDF viewer

• Adobe Systems Acrobat Reader
• Foxit Software Foxit Reader

PDF Authoring

• Adobe Acrobat Distiller

Cryptography

• Pretty Good Privacy

Scanner utilities

• Xvscan last updated in 2000^[3]
• VueScan

Antivirus

• AntiVir Workstation PersonalEdition
• AVG Anti-Virus
• Dr. Web
• F-Prot (not to be confused with F-Secure)
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus
• NOD32 (server version)
• RAV Antivirus
• Trend Micro ServerProtect for Linux
• Avast Anti-Virus
• BitDefender Antivirus Scanner for Unices

Bootloading

• Acronis OS Selector

Hard disk partitioning

• Paragon Partition Manager
• Acronis PartitionExpert

Backup software

• EMC Legato Networker
• www.Lonetar.com
• Microlite BackupEDGE
• Nero Linux, popular CD burning software. [1]
• SpiderOak Backup [2]

PIM / DB / Hierarchical notebook with tree view

• TreePad Lite

Multimedia

Audio/Video

MP3 Encoding

• L3enc

Multimedia Player

• Real Player
• PowerDVD for Linux
• LinDVD
• Fluendo DVD Player

Graphics

Graphics viewers/editors

• CompuPic
• Picasa 2.2, 2.7 and 3.0 beta
• XnView MP
• Xv

Professional Graphics Editors

• LightZone
• Pixel32
• Corel Photo-Paint 9

Digital imaging

• Bibble

Vector Graphics Editor/s

• Corel Draw 9

Flash Player

• Adobe Flash Player

3D Graphics

• Maya
• SoftImage XSI
• Houdini

Video, etc.

Simple/Professional Video Production Environment

• iMira Editing
• MainActor
• IFX Piranha
• Autodesk/Discreet Smoke
• Autodesk/Discreet Flint/Flame/Inferno

Creation of 2D and 3D Effects

• Shake
• Fusion
• Nuke

Miscellaneous

• Google Earth
• Nero Linux, CD/DVD/Blu-Ray burning
• TrueCrypt, the source code is available, but the license is considered "unclear" and therefore not considered "free" by all the major GNU/Linux distributions^{[4][5][6][7][8]}, and even considered with "potential to be actively dangerous" by Fedora^[9]

Office/Business

Office suites

• StarOffice
• HancomOffice
• ApplixWare Office (see Applixware Words)
• ThinkFree Office
• EIOffice

Word Processor

• TextMaker
• StarOffice Writer

Spreadsheets

• StarOffice Calc

Presentations

• StarOffice Presentation

Local database

• InterBase 7
• Rekall
• StarOffice Adabas D

E-Commerce and Web Business

• WebLogic
• IBM WebSphere Application Server
• Oracle Application Server

Personal Finance Manager

• Moneydance

Financial Accounting

• Global: Hansa Business Solutions
• India & Asia: Kalculate

Enterprise Automation (Russian)

• Keeper
• Oblik

Collaboration Software

• Kerika

Project Management

• Cando Projects Server

Communications software

• EasyIVR Call processing (IVR, CTI, ACD) for Linux

Games

• Airline Tycoon Deluxe
• Aliens versus Predator
• Ankh
• Ankh: Heart of Osiris
• Civilization: Call to Power
• Cold War
• Darwinia
• DEFCON
• Descent³
• Doom 3 (plus expansion pack Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil)
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
• Gorky 17
• Heretic II
• Heroes of Might and Magic III
• Jack Keane
• Knights and Merchants
• Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
• Majesty Gold
• Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
• Myth II: Soulblighter
• Neverwinter Nights (plus expansion packs)
• Penumbra: Black Plague
• Penumbra: Overture
• Postal²
• Quake (all versions)
• Railroad Tycoon II
• Regnum Online
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• Rise of the Triad
• Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood
• Rune
• Savage 2
• Savage: The Battle for Newerth
• Serious Sam (all versions)
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
• SimCity 3000
• Soldier of Fortune
• Tribes II
• Unreal Tournament (UT3 still in development)
• Uplink
• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
• X2: The Threat

Programming and development

C++ IDEs

• Code Crusader
• CodeWarrior
• KDE Studio Gold
• Kylix
• TimeStorm
• Understand for C++
• SlickEdit

CASE

CASE-facility for UML

• Together ControlCenter

Top-level CASE System

• Rational Rose

Compilers

• Intel C++ Compiler
• Intel Fortran Compiler
• Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran Compiler
• XL C/C++ Compiler, IBM
• XL Fortran Compiler, IBM

CVS

• BitKeeper

HTML/DHTML Editor

• Arachnophilia

InterBase/Firebird IDE

• IBAdmin

Java IDE

• Sun ONE Studio

Memory Leak Tracing

• BoundsChecker
• Insure

Object Pascal IDE

• Kylix

Perl/Python/Tcl IDE

• ActiveState Komodo

Prolog

• SICStus Prolog

WYSIWYG HTML Editor

• IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder

Servers

WWW

• Abyss Web Server
• Zeus Web Server
• Adobe JRun
• CGIProxy - source available for non-commercial use.

DB Engine

• Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise
• IBM DB2
• Oracle
• Informix

E-mail / PIM / GroupWare Servers

• CommuniGate Pro
• Bynari
• Lotus Domino
• NetMail
• Novell GroupWise
• Open-Xchange
• Scalix (based on HP OpenMail)
• SCOoffice Mail Server
• Teamware Office
• Zarafa

Product data/product lifecycle management (PDM/PLM)

• Siemens Teamcenter^[10]

Proxy

• SafeSquid Content Filtering HTTP1.1 Proxy

Cluster Filesystems

• Matrix Server

Miscellaneous applications

Mathematics

• Magma
• Maple
• Mathematica
• MATLAB

3D Modelling

• Pro/ENGINEER Linux
• Siemens NX^[11]

CAD/CAM/CAE

• BricsCAD is an IntelliCAD based commercial CAD solution.
• VariCAD
• CYCAS by Verlag Frese
• Siemens NX
• QCAD professional is built on the QCAD opensource package.
• CATIA by Dassault Systèmes

Diagram and Chart Designing

• Poseidon for UML

HDD testing/benchmarking

• SPEC SFS

Emulators

Video game console emulators

• BoycottAdvance - Game Boy Advance emulator, freeware
• ePSXe - Sony Playstation emulator, freeware
• MAME - emulators for multiple arcade machines; source available for non-commercial use
• Stella - Atari 2600 emulator; source available for non-commercial use
• Regen - Sega Genesis / Mega Drive emulator

Virtual Machine Emulator

• Parallels Workstation
• QuickTransit
• VMware Workstation
• VMware Player
• VMware vCenter Converter
• VirtualBox (closed source edition)
• Win4Lin

Windows Compatibility Layer

• Cedega Windows games compatibility layer (Cedega is based on the free compatibility layer Wine.)
• CrossOver Office (Crossover is based on the free compatibility layer Wine.)

See also

• Wine (software), a "compatibility layer" that allows many windows software to run on Linux (both proprietary and free)

References

1. ^ See Lotus Notes 8.0 trial download
2. ^ See Lotus Notes 8.5 feature list, and download link
3. ^ http://www.tummy.com/xvscan/
4. ^ Debian Bug report logs - #364034. Accessed on: January 12, 2009.
5. ^ TrueCrypt licensing concern Accessed on: April 20, 2009
6. ^ Bug #109701 in Ubuntu. Accessed on: April 20, 2009
7. ^ non-OSI compliant packages in the openSUSE Build Service. Accessed on: April 20, 2009
8. ^ Gentoo bug 241650. Accessed on: April 20, 2009
9. ^ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#TrueCrypt
10. ^ "Teamcenter 2005 Delivers Comprehensive PLM Offering". Siemens PLM Software. 2006-06-20. http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/about_us/newsroom/press/press_release.cfm?Component=25352&ComponentTemplate=822. Retrieved 2009-06-25. 
11. ^ "UGS Ships NX 4 and Delivers Industry’s First Complete Digital Product Development Solution on Linux". 2009-04-04. http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/about_us/newsroom/press/press_release.cfm?Component=25399&ComponentTemplate=822. Retrieved 2009-06-20. 

This list is based on The Table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux, which is licensed under GNU FDL.

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