Open Source software e.g. Microsoft office Professional cost Approximately £300 PC/dp/B000HEV6ES/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid= &sr=1-4 This product can be installed on two computers; however, the second license can only be used by the same user on a portable device Consider Open Office which is free

Open office A free open systems equivalent to Microsoft office – will read and write Word doc files, Powerpoint files, etc. · Openoffice Writer word processor similar to MS Word · Openoffice Impress presentation program similar to MS Powerpoint, e.g. this presentation · Openoffice Calc spreadsheet similar to MS Excel · Openoffice Base database similar to MS Access · Openoffice Draw vector graphics editor similar to CorelDRAW and Microsoft Visio · Openoffice Math mathematical equation editor similar to MS Equation Editor

Also Project-Open - Web-based ERP/Project Management Gantt project - creation of gantt charts and associated documenets

TrueCrypt Free open soource on-the-fly disk encryption software Can encrypt complete disks, disk partitions, USB drives, create encrypted containers, etc Encrypted containers see Encrypted USB flash drive see

ArgoUML – enables the creation of use-case and class diagrams (needs Java) UMLet - tool for creating UML diagrams (needs java) this will also work as a plug-in for eclipse Eclipse - a powerful open source IDE for multiple language

The Code::Blocks programming environment uses the GNU gcc/g++ C/C++ 32-bit compiler under Windows, Linux, iMacs, etc. With wxSmith GUI builderwxSmith An alternative to Matlab is GNU Octave