Spark - Open Source IM

Open Source IM Client

Spark is a secure, fast, Open Source, cross-platform IM client optimized for businesses and organizations. It features built-in support for group chat, telephony integration, and powerful security. It also offers a outstanding end-user experience with features like in-line spell checking, group chat room bookmarks, and tabbed conversations.

SQUID – A Unix based Proxy Server

Squid is a caching UNIX based proxy server that caches internet content closer to a requestor than its original point of origin. This open source proxy server supports caching of many different kinds of web objects, including those accessed through HTTP and FTP.

Squid had many advantages which include

• Speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests
• Caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources
• Aiding security by filtering traffic

WANProxy – Open Source TCP proxy

WANProcy is a free, open source, general–purpose portable TCP proxy which makes TCP connections send less data, which improves TCP performance and throughput over lossy links. Slow links & long links. This is just what you need to improve performance over satellite, wireless and WAN links. WANProxy also support optimizing SSSH traffic specifically, in addition to other TCP protocols. WANProxy is the first WAN optimization software to support SSH WAN optimization.

LibreOffice - An Open source Office Suite

A powerful open source productivity suite

The LibreOffice suite is a work of OpenOffice, created in 2010, meaning the underlying source code is the same, but the software has gone in a different development direction. LibreOffice boasts the same six applications as Apache OpenOffice- Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base and Math-but the two suites differ in terms of applications features, usability and community support.