We felt that OpenOffice was the logical choice for an office productivity suite, as this provides best document compatibility with the current NHS preferred product (Microsoft Office 2007/2003).
Calendar/Scheduling/Resourcing/Messaging (e-mail, instant messaging, SMS, etc)
Evolution and Empathy are pre-installed on Ubuntu.
Reporting
It was felt that an application to directly connect to data warehouses would be useful, in the mould of Crystal Reports. We initially opted for JasperReports. This is a powerful open source Java reporting tool that has the ability to deliver rich content onto the screen, to the printer or into PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV, XML and even flash (swf) files. It is entirely written in Java and can be used in a variety of Java enabled applications, including J2EE or Web applications, to generate dynamic content. Its main purpose is to help creating page oriented, ready to print documents in a simple and flexible manner.
Project Management
Planner provides project planning and scheduling together with resource management.
http://live.gnome.org/Planner and available via the Ubuntu Software Centre
Image manipulation
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It is also available via the Ubuntu Software Centre.
Terminal Software
Built into Ubuntu
File Transfer, archiving and recovery
Use Nautilus, which is built into Ubuntu.
Web Browser
Firefox , which is built into the current distribution of Ubuntu.
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