Yup, you hear it right.. Free HIGH-END software. Free to download and free to use either personally or commercially.

Maksud High-end di atas adalah software tersebut bukan sebarang software tetapi software yg mampu bersaing dengan software2 terkemuka yg berharga beribu2 ringgit (baca: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, MsOffice). Ya, tak lain dan tak bukan, ianya adalah software2 opensource!

Namun, apa yg menarik untuk kali ini adalah, saya akan memperkenalkan anda dengan satu website yg sudah agak lama di pasaran tapi diam2 ubi berisi. Website tersebut adalah “Open Source Alternatif (to Expensive/Paid/Bad Software)” dengan URL http://www.osalt.com

Anda boleh encounter berbagai2 software open source sebagai alternatif kepada high-end software yg sedia ada yg kebanyakannya berada dalam kategori heavy-production software seperti software untuk design (Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Adobe Premiere), software untuk bisnes (MsOffice, MsMoney, Accounting) dan juga software untuk personal. Just check it out. You may find something useful

I really amaze by some of the software features like OpenLaszlo :

OpenLaszlo is an open source development platform for web applications. It’s main target today is generating macromedia flash files (swf)and AJAX/DHTML for use on web pages and sites. OpenLaszlo is script based with it’s own LZX programming language - and eventhough it does not provide a wysiwyg user interface it a still simple to use and applications are easy to build. For building rich internet applications OpenLaszlo is a great tool. And recently OpenLaszlo and SUN made a joint announcement to make OpenLaszlo available on Java micro edition (J2ME), which includes mobilephones and set-top boxes.

Simply Superb!