{"id":26,"date":"2009-06-15T11:23:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T17:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.escarra.org\/?p=26"},"modified":"2009-06-15T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T17:23:48","slug":"open-source-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.escarra.org\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Open-Source Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just recently I&#8217;ve devoted my extra time to finding and implementing open-source alternatives for common proprietary business applications. So far I&#8217;ve had great success in getting the solutions up and running, and I&#8217;ve been nothing short of impressed on how much community support they receive.<\/p>\n<p>I will start writing comparisons on the Commercial VS. 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