Open Alternatives – Information on free and open source resources

Thanks to the open source revolution, being a webmaster has gone from geeky, costly and time prohibitive to layman-friendly, economical and interesting. Most web users are literate enough to find their way around the internet – (thanks to free search engines). But when they have ideas of starting something new – due to their ignorance – they are skeptical about starting anything – what will be the cost? how will SEO work? Where do I start!.

Open Alternatives is an information portal which aims to provide the information about the open source and free alternatives to costly and commercial software all in one place.  This would save time and energy to look for free alternatives.

Open Alternatives website is a combination of Wordpress and SMF. While Wordpress is one of the most popular open source blogging software, SMF is a forum software available FREE (its not open source). Read our blog and join the Forums to participate in the community and share knowledge. And yeah .. do let us know about a new and exciting free tool that you have found recently!