We conducted a quick survey at the office and discovered the following open source programs to be most popular
| Program | Description | URL |
| Mozilla Firefox | An open-source XML/HTML browser which is implementing full Level 2 DOM support | www.mozilla.org/ |
| Linux | Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system. | www.linux.org/ |
| Open Office | OpenOffice.org (OO.o or OOo) is an office suite application available for a number of different computer operating systems. | www.openoffice.org/ |
| FileZilla | FileZilla Client is a free, open source, cross-platform FTP client. Binaries are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS). | www.filezilla-project.org/ |
| Blender | Blender is a free software 3D animation program. It can be used for modelling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulating, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications. | www.blender.org/ |
| GIMP | The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. Typical uses include creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, altering colours, combining multiple images, removing unwanted image features, and converting between different image formats. | www.gimp.org/ |
| MySQL | MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system (DBMS) which has, according to MySQL AB, more than 10 million installations. The basic program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. | www.mysql.com/ |
