List of proprietary software for Linux

This list is based on The Table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux, which is licensed under GNU FDL, therefore its data can be used in here.

Networking

Web Browser/s

Netscape — freeware, last Linux version is 7.2
Opera — desktop versions free of charge, multiplatform since version 3.0 in 1998

E-mail Client/s

Bynari Insight Connector

E-mail Client / PIM in MS Outlook Style

Bynari
Lotus Notes 7.0.1 for Linux/x86 (Red Hat and SuSE initially);

: Version 8 "Hannover" announced in 2006

Zarafa Outlook Sharing

Newsreader/s

Netscape — freeware, Linux version until 7.2
Opera — free of charge for desktop systems, multiplatform since version 3.0 in 1998.

FTP Client/s

IglooFTP PRO for Linux
Pro:Atria Ltd SFTPPlus
Xellsoft.com SynchronEX+

Firewall (packet filtering)

SmoothWall Corporate — A closed fork of SmoothWall, targeted at enterprise and corporate users

Visual traceroute

VisualRoute

P2P File Sharing

MetaMachine eDonkey2000 — latest release from 25.07.2005.
Loophole (WinMX protocol) — WinMX servers down since 09.2005.

Note: Some risks may be associated by having and/or using file sharing programs, whether proprietary or not. See File Sharing to read more.

"Hotline" P2P protocol clients/servers

Multifunction sound modem program/s

PrimaFax

Fax software

Esker Fax
Esker VSI-FAX
Fax2Send
FAXCOM
MessagePlus/Open
U-Fax

Network maintenance

HP Openview agents

Routing

GateD

Distributed Computing

SETI@home

Desktop/System software

Work with files

Console Archiver/s

Desktop search

Google Desktop 1.0, released June 27, 2007

PDF viewer

Adobe Acrobat Reader

PDF Authoring

Adobe Acrobat Distiller

Cryptography

Scanner utilities

Xvscan
VueScan

Antivirus

AntiVir Workstation PersonalEdition
AVG Anti-Virus
Dr. Web
F-Prot (not to be confused with F-Secure)
Kaspersky AV
NOD32 (server version)
RAV Antivirus
Trend Micro ServerProtect for Linux

Bootloading

Acronis OS Selector

Hard disk partitioning

Paragon Partition Manager
Acronis PartitionExpert

Backup software

EMC Legato Networker
www.Lonetar.com
Microlite BackupEDGE

PIM / DB / Hierarchical notebook with tree view

TreePad Lite

Multimedia

Audio/Video

MP3 Encoding

L3enc

Multimedia Player

RealPlayer

Graphics

Graphics viewers/editors

CompuPic
Picasa — pre-beta, works through WINE, announced on 26 May 2006

Professional Graphics Editors

Pixel32
Corel PhotoPaint 9

Vector Graphics Editor/s

Corel Draw 9

Flash Player

Adobe Flash Player 9

3D Graphics

Maya
SoftImage XSI
Houdini

Video, et al.

Simple/Professional Video Production Environment

iMira Editing
MainActor
IFX Piranha
Autodesk/Discreet Smoke

Creation of 2D and 3D Effects

Shake
Fusion
Nuke

Miscellaneous

Google Earth 4

Office/Business

Office suites

StarOffice
HancomOffice
ApplixWare Office (see Applixware Words)
ThinkFree Office
EIOffice

Word Processor

TextMaker
StarOffice Writer

Spreadsheets

StarOffice Calc

Presentations

StarOffice Presentation

Local database

InterBase 7
Rekall
StarOffice Adabas

E-Commerce and Web Business

WebLogic
IBM WebSphere Application Server
Oracle Application Server

Personal Finance Manager

Moneydance

Financial Accounting

Global: Hansa Business Solutions
India & Asia: Kalculate

Enterprise Automation (Russian)

Keeper
Oblik

Collaboration Software

Kerika

Project Management

Cando Projects Server

Communications software

EasyIVR Call processing (IVR, CTI, ACD) for Linux

Games

Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Doom 3
Quake 4
X2: The Threat
Unreal Tournament (all versions except UT3)

Programming and development

C++ IDEs

KDE Studio Gold
Kylix
Code Crusader
CodeWarrior
TimeStorm
Understand for C++
SlickEdit

Object Pascal IDE

Kylix

Prolog

SICStus Prolog

WYSIWYG HTML Editor

IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder

HTML/DHTML Editor

Arachnophilia

Perl/Python/Tcl IDE

ActiveState Komodo

Java IDE

Sun ONE Studio

CASE

CASE-facility for UML

Together ControlCenter

Top-level CASE System

Rational Rose

CVS

BitKeeper

IDE for InterBase/Firebird development

IBAdmin

Memory Leak Tracing

BoundsChecker
Insure

Servers

WWW

Zeus Web Server

DB Engine

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise
IBM DB2
Oracle
Informix

E-mail / PIM / GroupWare Servers

CommuniGate Pro
Bynari
Scalix (based on HP OpenMail)
Teamware Office
Zarafa
Novell Netmail
SuSE Linux Openexchange Server
SCOoffice Mail Server

Lotus Domino

Cluster Filesystems

Matrix Server

Misc applications

Mathematics

Maple
Mathematica
MATLAB

3D Modelling

Pro/ENGINEER Linux

CAD/CAM/CAE

Linuxcad
VariCAD
Cycas

Diagram and Chart Designing

Poseidon for UML

HDD testing/benchmarking

SPEC SFS

Emulators

Virtual Machine Emulator

VMware
Win4Lin

Windows Compatibility Layer

CrossOver Office (Crossover is based on the free compatibility layer Wine.)