I searched, no go. So, I'm starting this thread....

I do development for a large company and I find myself constantly looking for free and / or cheap software to enhance stuff (i.e. DB management, website stuff, etc.). Without giving away trade secrets, what kind of softwares does you use in your Enterprise environment?

One example, Jetkey Smart Map.
http://smartmap.jetkey.com/

and remember...this thread is meant for discussion of software considered "cheap" for Enterprise users / developers and large scale apps, not just individual home users.

The goal here is to share ideas and come up with neat things to help all of our companies. Also, this here thread is not platform discriminatory.

7/8/2008 9:36:18 PM

man i dont know...i just google for crap when i need it, and if there happens to be a free/cheap alternative i give it a try.

if you really want some good input here, you might want to come up with categories of stuff like antivirus, development tools, database tools, sys admin tools (remote management, system monitoring, imaging, disk management) etc. and then maybe subsets of free/cheap sotware for each specific platform within the categories i listed above.

that dot net module you linked to looks pretty cool tho...

7/8/2008 9:59:57 PM

^^upwards of 75% of the "Features" they claim are built into the Gmap's API. I don't know how they are selling this. It is cheap though

I use a program called Axialis IconWorkshop pretty darn often, makes quick work of icons.

Also Autodesk SketchbookPro has replaced almost all the other Ink applications on my tablet.

7/8/2008 10:37:15 PM

I would like a clear definition of what it means to be "Enterprise". So far, all definitions have been about as satisfying as definitions for "Business Logic".

That being said, I love Fiddler (http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/). It lets me sniff my HTTP traffic, and craft my own requests, or intercept specific requests and send my browser/client back a pre-crafted response. It lets me look at the raw hex output to check for charset correctness. It lets me see what responses look like BEFORE http chunking is decoded. Probably a lot more that I don't need it to do (yet).

[Edited on July 9, 2008 at 12:23 AM. Reason : x]

7/9/2008 12:22:55 AM

yeah that's pretty nice. i use a FF extension (Live HTTP Headers) for stuff similar to that

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"I would like a clear definition of what it means to be "Enterprise""

good luck

[Edited on July 9, 2008 at 12:49 AM. Reason : .]

7/9/2008 12:47:23 AM