Social Source Commons

Commercial Unix server software.

ASPCache™ is a high performance, thread-safe collection component designed to make it easy to cache data and page fragments in Active Server Pages. Prudent use of caching makes Web pages faster and reduces Web server load.

Email server software

ChatSpace Community Server contains a complete array of real-time community and support applications including chat, message boards, instant messaging, live events, and queued help

Antivirus protection for desktops and servers.

CommuniGate Pro powers total Internet Communications based upon open standards like SIP for voice and data communications.

Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS server and allows machines with DHCP-allocated addresses to appear in the DNS with names configured either in each host or in a central configuration file. Dnsmasq supports static and dynamic DHCP leases and BOOTP/TFTP for network booting of diskless machines.

Multipurpose Linux server software.

Server for sharing FileMaker databases.

Free and Open Source software for back office servers that can help non-profits realize their mission and goals.

We're looking for tools that real organizations are using now, and for tools that non-profits could be using that they might not realize are ready for prime time.

This toolbox is part of the NonProfit Open Source Initiative's Free and Open Source Software Primer Project. Our goal is to maintain a living list of free and open source software tools and applicacations that can help non-profits and other civil society groups realize their goals and mission.

We invite you to contribute to this toolbox, and to check out our other toolboxes and help us keep them relevant as well.

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open source operating system optimized for use as a server

Operating via a network, Groove Virtual Office software allows teams of people to work together as if they were in the same physical location, through their website.

Free open source fax server software.

Messaging, collaboration, workflow automation and application server.

Apple's server operating system.

Powerful wiki software built to support the Wikipedia project

Open Workbench is a FOSS project management application. Open Workbench provides robust project scheduling and management functionality. Although it is provided as free software you still need the Clarity suite if you want to use a central database to manage enterprise collaboration. With Clarity's Schedule Connect module, it can specifically link to many PCs with Open Workbench 1.1 installed. The module installs on both centralised server and the desktops, adding database access to Open Workbench’s screens.

open-source windows-compatible server

Integrated server suite for small organizations, bundling Windows Server and Exchange Server.

Splunk is an application that specializes in indexing and searching on time-based data from heterogeneous sources. It has decent ad-hoc reporting tools to generate various reports and charts. Base version is free; gradual pricing for "enterprise" features.

Software for sharing Outlook data without Exchange Server.

An open source web application server environment for developing web-database applications. Requires only knowledge of SQL and HTML.

Multipurpose server software.

Zimbra is an open source server and client technology for next-generation enterprise messaging and collaboration.