The following software products fall into the category of some serious commercial products. Oracle, Informix, Sybase, WordPerfect and more! Have fun and keep on tuxing.

StarOffice 5.1 StarOffice 5.1 is completely free of charge!Star Division follows the needs of the StarOffice users with a completely redesigned product range. Besides the free version for the personal non-commercial private use, further variants are available at a competitive price.StarOffice is a fully integrated, Microsoft Office compatible office suite which provides you the proper tools for nearly all tasks. No matter if you write letters or articles with the word processor (StarWriter), create lists with the spreadsheet program (StarCalc) or with the new graphic program (StarDraw) fantastic 3D images - StarOffice is complete and provides you all proper functions. Additionally, a database - powerful and, at the same time, simple to use (StarBase), an impressive presentation program (StarImpress) and an event planer (StarSchedule) belong to the standard equipment. With StarOffice Internet fans can read e-mails and newsgroups, surf in the World Wide Web and also download file from the Internet. Thanks to this completeness, upgrading from other office suites to StarOffice is simple and absolutely possible. Users can open Microsoft Office files in order to convert spreadsheets, presentations and texts.

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WordPerfect 8  The Corel WordPerfect for Linux free download is here!  Linux.Corel.com is where you’ll find the latest news and information about Corel, Corel products developed for Linux, such as Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux – Personal Edition, and Corel Computer, a division of Corel that’s developed the NetWinder™ family of network computing products. At Corel, we're very enthusiastic about the achievements of the Linux community and we're excited to support its developments.   

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Sybase RDMS Adaptive Server Enterprise is now available on the Linux operating system - for FREE. By porting ASE to Linux, Sybase provides the Linux development community with the first highly scalable, high-performance database engine available for the platform. The package includes the standard features of Adaptive Server Enterprise and all related connectivity components. It's offered as a free, unsupported release for development as well as deployment. Initially, the software will be available through leading Linux distribution vendors, Red Hat ,Caldera Systems and S.u.S.E, Inc..

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Netscape Navigator Free Netscape Communicator 4.6 Includes Navigator, Messenger, Composer, AOL Instant Messenger 2.0, RealPlayer G2, plus multimedia plug-ins.

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Sophos Anti-Virus Software for Linux Eval Sophos Anti-Virus is a unique solution to the virus problem, providing true cross-platform protection in a single, fully integrated product. The network-centric design provides a host of benefits for the protection of servers, workstations and portables. Sophos's ground-breaking architecture maximises protection, while minimising performance and administrative overheads. Sophos Anti-Virus is fully scalable, equally at home protecting: a single PC,a local network, or the entire enterprise.Sophos Anti-Virus is available for all popular desktop and network operating systems. 

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Ingres II Linux Edition Beta Refresh Program Free This new Ingres II Linux Edition Beta Refresh offers a full replacement of the last Beta Linux Edition, and includes fixes for problems reported during the beta cycle, and general Ingres maintenance. To help eliminate time constraints with downloading, this beta refresh is offered both as one (30Mb) tar file download, and as several downloadable tar files (each 10Mb of less).

This Ingres II Linux edition provides the complete Ingres II database engine, with the latest features, like variable page size, row-level locking, support for binary large objects (BLOBs), interfaces for C, compatibility with IngPerl (database access with the perl scripting language) Internet publishing capabilities, and a complete set of on-line documentation.

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Apache Server  Free Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. The May 1999 WWW server site survey by Netcraft found that over 57% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache (over 60% if Apache derivatives are included), thus making it more widely used than all other web servers combined. The Apache project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for various modern desktop and server operating systems, such as UNIX and Windows NT. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server which provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.

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Oracle for Linux  Free to Try By providing a port to Linux, Oracle has lowered the overall costs of ownership significantly for enterprise systems: The port provides an alternative platform for companies that want an Internet-based, low-cost point of entry for Web-enabling their business.

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Informix Dynamic Server, Linux Edition Suite Free is based on Informix's industry-leading Dynamic Scalable Architecture (DSA). DSA is designed to fully leverage all hardware architectures, delivering breakthrough database performance in any environment. Informix was the first enterprise database company to answer the challenge of the Linux community. Today, by offering solutions that are as easy to embrace as Linux itself, Informix continues its commitment. The road waits. Drive it with the reliability of our award winning Linux products.

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The Adobe Acrobat Reader Free lets you view and print PDF files on all major computer platforms. Note: You will receive the most recent version of Acrobat Reader that is available for your language and platform. This means you will receive version 3 if Acrobat Reader 4.0 has not yet been released for your language or platform. Step 3 displays the version and file size of the downloaded file based on the selections you make in Step 1.

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FrontPage^® Server Extensions Free Welcome to Ready-to-Run Software's UNIX support for Microsoft^® FrontPage^® Server Extensions. The purpose of this web is to provide support services for the FrontPage Server Extensions for UNIX for the Microsoft FrontPage products. We've provided a number of resources here to help you resolve problems, report bugs, and suggest improvements to our products and service.

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DOOM shareware is a wildly popular action game developed by id Software where you, a trained space marine, have to fight your way through a series of increasingly hellish moonbases that have been invaded by demonic creatures. It features stunning realtime texture-mapped 3-D graphics, chilling stereo sound effects, and frenetic gameplay. You can also play DOOM in multi-player cooperative or Deathmatch games using modems, IPX networks, and TCP/IP networks. id distributes a full-featured shareware version with the 9 levels of DOOM Episode 1, "Knee-deep in the Dead", and for a $40 registration fee you can buy two more episodes, "The Shores of Hell" and "Inferno". A commercially distributed sequel, DOOM II: Hell on Earth, is being sold in stores. DOOM enthusiasts have decoded the formats of DOOM resource files with the blessing and support of id's programmers and created literally hundreds of user-designed levels (often called WADs or PWADs) to supplement the 27 levels in the registered version of DOOM or the 32 levels in DOOM II (you must have the registered version of DOOM or DOOM II to use these add-on levels).

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Sun's Java Developer's Toolkit to Linux  Free The Blackdown JDK is one of the ports of Sun's Java Developer's Toolkit to Linux. The JDK includes the basic tools needed for developing and running Java applications, including (among other things) the following:

• A Java Virtual Machine, or JVM. The virtual machine interprets and executes Java byte codes (a more condensed, intermediate form for Java instructions) inside a software-only machine. In other words, the JVM emulates a hardware platform, including registers, program counter, and so forth.
• A Java compiler, which takes a text file containing Java syntax and transforms it into Java byte codes.
• An appletviewer for executing Java applet code.
• A Java debugger.
• Example Java programs.
• The Java 1.1 class library, including platform-independent library source.
• A tool for creating and managing Java security keys.
• A remote method stub and skeleton generator.
• A registry server for remote method invocations.
• C and C++ headers for extending the JVM with interfaces to native code.
• Native libraries for the platform-dependent portions of the JVM, including AWT layer above Motif and X11.
• Native libraries for embedding a JVM in other native applications.

There are static and dynamic versions of the core Java binaries, as well as versions compiled with and without debugging symbols. Documentation for the JDK APIs is available separately from Javasoft at http://www.javasoft.com/docs/.

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TCL/TK free Scriptics leads the development of the open source Tcl/Tk scripting language and offers professional development tools, services and extensions for Tcl, the industry-leading integration platform for the enterprise.

Tcl/Tk 8.1 is a major new release of the Tcl/Tk open source scripting language that establishes Tcl/Tk as the industry's first scripting language capable of handling enterprise-scale integration tasks.

Created in the late 1980s by software visionary John Ousterhout, Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a popular open source scripting language used by over half a million developers worldwide. It's also a critical component in thousands of corporations. It has a simple and programmable syntax and a library package that can be easily embedded in application programs. You can learn more about Tcl in About Tcl.

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Perl  free is a high-level programming language with an eclectic heritage written by Larry Wall and a cast of thousands. It derives from the ubiquitous C programming language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, the Unix shell, and at least a dozen other tools and languages. Perl's process, file, and text manipulation facilities make it particularly well-suited for tasks involving quick prototyping, system utilities, software tools, system management tasks, database access, graphical programming, networking, and world wide web programming. These strengths make it especially popular with system administrators and CGI script authors, but mathematicians, geneticists, journalists, and even managers also use Perl. Maybe you should, too.

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