Free groupware review and specific example

Take a look through this brief groupware review that is provided to help you in identification of the main groupware types. Both Windows and Linux groupware solutions belong to great class of products designed to allow users to collaborate, regardless of location, through the Internet or business local network to jointly work in one virtual environment. Free solution is a special family of teamwork products that are distributed on free-of-charge basis. According to any review that can be found in the Web, the main part of free packages is formed by variety of different open source solutions (opengroupware) that is called so because of its accessible program code that can be modified by any person who possesses appropriate skills in software development. A lot of open source groupware is designed to be the collaborative suits that support modular architecture where users can select only required modules and install them into a framework provided by free groupware . Many of these free products belong to web based solutions , because the usual way of accessing   free account is via a web browser, but some other free packages stand for client-server technology.

There are special client-server products for Windows and Linux environment. You can easily find a detailed review dedicated only to Linux-compatible products that are available to be installed on a Linux-operated server or PC's. Client-server solutions are much more advisable, than any web based groupware , for teams that work within one location (office network) as accessibility critically depends on Internet connection that is not always available or fast enough.

• The VIP Quality Software company:

VIP Task Manager is client-server tool that can be considered Windows groupware for project management as it works with all systems of Windows family and can also import tasks from MS Outlook. This is not a free product, but you can test the trial version to understand if it works for you.

Also this project management product can be partially considered Linux groupware because database of VIP Task Manager can be deployed on Linux-operated server (but client and server components cannot be installed on Linux-operated machines). This product is not an open source package , but it provides customization capabilities to create a solution for your business needs. VIP Task Manager is not the web groupware (web based groupware) , but its server can be reached via Internet. You can make a free download right now from this web-site.

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