Notepad++ is a text editor and source code editor for use with Microsoft Windows. Unlike Notepad, the built-in Windows text editor, it supports tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files in a single window. Notepad++ opens large files significantly faster than Microsoft’s Notepad and Wordpad. Modes are available for different programming and scripting languages that highlight portions of code according to a color scheme. For instance, it highlights all variables one color, classes another, and so on.
Productivity & Utility
Applications used to produce documents, spreadsheets, diagrams, bibliographies, or to accomplish clerical work and applications that are either a component of the operating system or helps to extend the operating system in some way including applications to visualize operating system environments. As well, applications focus on the direct transfer of files between two computers.
OpenOffice
Apache OpenOffice is an open-source office productivity software suite. The applications include:
- Writer – a word processor
- Calc – a spreadsheet program
- Impress – a presentation program
- Draw – a graphics program
- Math – a formula editor
- Base – a database management program
Apache OpenOffice is available for download here. OpenOffice may require java for some applications.
Oracle Database
Oracle DBMS (DataBase Management System) is an enterprise grade database system designed to handle very large and complex databases with high availability and redundancy. Oracle databases are popular in ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems such as Banner and PeopleSoft.
Oracle licenses are very complex due to its scalability and typical usage. Often the license is priced per processor, since the number of processors typically scales with the size of your database usage and operation. Large server clusters often have dozens of processors dedicated to processing request for an Oracle database.