james_borck
Senior Contributing Editor

Bossie Awards 2016: The best open source applications

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Sep 21, 201612 mins

InfoWorld's top picks in open source business applications, collaboration, and middleware

The best open source applications

The world of open source applications is a precarious one. Take SugarCRM, for instance. Once it was a leading light of open source in the enterprise; today it’s strictly a SaaS offering, sucking at Salesforce’s exhaust. Or see OpenOffice. Only yesterday it was everyone’s favorite finger in the eye of Microsoft; today it hardly has a reason to exist, as LibreOffice races off into the distance. Among our Bossie winners in applications, collaboration, and middleware you’ll find a number of projects that have reinvented and endured, along with a few that are completely new.

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