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Altova XMLSpy 2009
XMLSpy is most likely the number one XML editor on the market. While other programs may include XML editing functionalities - XMLSpy does it to perfection. The editing features and support for both... Read more

Araxis Merge 6.5
Araxis Merge is a professional tool for visual comparison and merging of text files most typically source code - but also web pages. A feature especially useful for developers is the three-way... Read more

Bea WebLogic Server 9.1
Bea WebLogic Server was one of the first J2EE application servers on the market and has since then kept evolving to reach new levels of functionality - always inline with Sun's developement and... Read more

Borland Delphi 2006
Borland Delphi is a software development platform based on the delphi programming language (derived from pascal). Due to its simple language, IDE and GUI/forms editor - Delphi has been one of the top... Read more

Borland JBuilder 2006
Borland has always produced greate integrated development environments (IDE) - and JBuilder is no expection. All featres has been worked through to perfection, making JBuilder a feature packed... Read more

EMS SQL Manager for MySQL 2007
SQL Manager for MySQL makes work with any MySQL database a simple task. No more need for command-line tool 'mysql'. Everything can be controlled directly from within SQL Manager - all database... Read more

Filemaker Pro 9
Using Filemaker Pro users can easily and fast create databases - and even share them over the web. Customize the applications you build to get the look-and-feel you or your organization require. Once... Read more

HP LoadRunner 9.5
LoadRunner is state-of-the-art performance measuring and load testing. With LoadRunner you can emulate e.g. thousands of users accessing your application at once and collect performance data to e.g.... Read more

IBM Rational Rose
Rational Rose is a family of UML (Unified Modeling Language) products from IBM. Each of the products are either targeted different developer roles or different platforms/programming languages. For... Read more

IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1
IBM WebSphere Application provides a very reliable, scalable platform for you web based applications or services. Security and high availability makes you applications running with no interference... Read more

JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 6.0
Well-known for it's refractoring and J2EE support - IntelliJ IDEA is one of the most used commercial Java IDEs available. The intelligent code editor helps the developer and increases productivity.... Read more

MathWorks MATLAB 7.6
MATLAB is the most popular software package when is comes to numerical computing. With it's own programming language you can work with numbers in any ways imaginable - and the easily visualize them.... Read more

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
.NET is a framework made for application development and web services. It allows you to use components from multiple programming languages and combine them. Also the framework provides a large class... Read more

Microsoft Access 2010
Microsoft's versatile tool for creating database driven application - or simply just maintain your data. Even though Access has its own embedded database engine - it is also able to connect to other... Read more

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
For professional development for the Microsoft platforms - Visual Studio provides the tools for it. Read more

Navicat
Navicat is a database management tool that lets users manage multiple databases on remote servers as well as local. Features include Unicode support, wizards for importing and exporting, batch job... Read more

Oracle SQL Developer 1.1
Oracle SQL Developer is freeware product from Oracle for managing databases. It has a great graphical user interface (gui) which makes manipulating of data a simple task. Also browsing database... Read more

Parasoft Insure++ 7.0.8
Parasoft's Insure++ is one of the most advanced and widely used memory debugging tools on the market. Insure++ detects main common and hard to find coding errors in C and C++ programs. Memory leaks,... Read more

PowerBuilder 12
If you need to build a user interface atop a database, you need PowerBuilder, an OOP (Object Oriented Programming) system that gives you flexibility and keeps you ahead of the development curve. You... Read more

Quest Software Toad for Oracle
Toad is one of the most populare and widely used database development and administration tools. This feature-rich product is a must-have for everyone working with Oracle. Features include query... Read more

Rational Purify
Purify is the most well-known memory debugging tool around. It's memory corruption and memory leak detection helps keep hard-to-find bug out of your applications. On install Purify integrates into... Read more

Sleepycat Berkeley DB 4.4
Berkeley DB is an embeddable database that allows you to add database functionality to your applications without having to manage a large Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). Also data is... Read more

UltraCompare 4.20
UltraCompare is a great tool for developer when it comes to comparing and merging source code. And if you are already using UltraEdit this is a natural choice since it integrates seamlessly into it.... Read more

UltraEdit v14.00
UltraEdit is and has been for a long time - the answer to all of your text editing demands. Features include: syntax highlighting for many programming languages, built-in SFTP/FTP client,... Read more

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Apache Derby
Apache Derby is an open source relational database - part of the Apache DB Project. Derby is written in java and is ideel for embeddable due to its small memory footprint. Derby supports SQL storing... Read more

Aptana 2
Aptana is an html/javascript editor, however, it does not provide any WYSIWYG feature - but it is still an amazing editor with many advanced features. Aptana is intended for people developing dynamic... Read more

ArgoUML 0.24
ArgoUML is a great UML (Unified Modeling Language) tool. Written in Java and using Java Web Start makes it easy to work with (install) and use on any platform. It has full support for the UML 1.4... Read more

Code::Blocks 8.02
Code::Blocks is an C++ IDE which makes it easy for experienced as well as new developers to create applications. Application made with Code::Blocks and based on wxWidgets - are portable between Linux... Read more

Cream 0.39
Cream is an open source text editor which used Vim as a base. However, Cream added an intuitive user interface with pull-down menus, toolbar, keyboard shortcuts and a tabbed based multi document... Read more

Eclipse 3.3
Java based IDE which aims to be a universal development toolkit. Even though it has it's roots in Java eclipse's plug-in base allows it to edit files for almost any environment including but not... Read more

Editra 0.4
Editra is an open source text editor that supports a variety of features, including syntax highlighting, for over sixty programming languages. Since it is built using wxWidgets, it can run on... Read more

Geronimo 2.1
Geronimo is an open source J2EE application server as part of the Apache project. The goal is to have a Sun certified J2EE server open source implementation according to the latest specifications.... Read more

Glom
Glom is an advanced database system and user interface designer with lots of high-level features. Its advantages include its simplicity and nearly no programming requirements. Loosely based on... Read more

HeidiSQL
HeidiSQL is a brilliant, small and simple open source SQL tool for MySQL databases. It does exactly what you expect it to - and a few extra things. Downloading, installing and configuring is very... Read more

HSQL Database Engine
HSQL Database Engine or just HSQLDB is an open source java database engine for embedding into your applications. As the name indicates HSQLDB supports SQL making it very flexible when it comes to... Read more

JBoss Application Server
JBoss Application Server is the most widely deployed open source application server on the market. As a certified J2EE platform it supports all features of J2EE 1.4 including additional services such... Read more

jEdit 4.2
jEdit is powerful open source editor that has taken the best features from all other editors and combined them into one. And as an open source java application is runs on virtually any platform.... Read more

Kexi 2.2
Kexi strives to be a rapid application development (rad) tool for database driven development. Use Kexi to quick design forms to access and create your data - just as any full features application.... Read more

Komodo Edit 5
Komodo Edit is an open source editor by ActiveState that is different from your run-of-the-mill editor in that it has many features that are usually absent in editors, but you might find in IDEs... Read more

Lazarus 0.9
Lazarus is an open source development environment that strives to be Delphi compatible. Based on Free Pascal Lazarus has a great foundation that allows you to create applications that will run on all... Read more

Mono
Mono is an open source implementation of the Microsoft .NET Framework. It most powerful feature is that Mono allow the execution of .NET application on almost any platform - including (but not... Read more

MonoDevelop 2.0
MonoDevelop is an open source free Gnome integrated development environment (IDE) for C#. Eventhough MonoDevelop has a short history it has some of the same features you would find in any... Read more

NetBeans IDE 6.8
NetBeans is an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for Java development. However, a C/C++ pack exists that lets you use NetBeans for your C/C++ projects. As a IDE for Java NetBeans... Read more

Octave 3.3
Octave, a freely redistributable software, is used for numerical computation with an interactive environment. Students pick up the basics quickly, comfortably using it within just a few hours.... Read more

OpenOffice Base 3.0
Maintain your databases or create new ones. Base either connects to your existing database engine - or your can use its built-in HSQL database. For beginners Base offers wizards to help create forms... Read more

OpenSTA 1.4.3
OpenSTA is a distributed software testing architecture. The main feature of OpenSTA is web (HTTP and HTTPS) performance and load/stress testing. It allows you to record different usage patterns on... Read more

Qt Creator 1.2.1
When you want to build applications with state of the art GUI interfaces you may want to look at Nokia's Qt Creator. It is focused on the idea of providing Qt users the features they need to get up... Read more

Scilab 4.1.2
Scilab is a toolbox for all of your numerical computing needs. It is a great software package for people working in engineering or scientific areas. Linear algebra, matrices, polynomials - everything... Read more

SciTE 1.73
SciTE is a developers editor. Originally made as an example for the Scintilla project - an open source source code editing component, SciTE today is a fully featured text editor for developers using... Read more

Serna Free 4.2
Serna Free is an open source, powerful XML editor. It is geared toward those with no experience and uses WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) for ease of use. Its appearance is a lot like a word... Read more

SharpDevelop 3.0
#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C# and Visual Basic.NET projects on Microsoft's .NET platform. Features code completion, forms designer, syntax highlighting, code bookmarks and... Read more

SQLTools 1.4.1
SQLTools is an open source tool for Oracle database development. It is a small and light weighted tool which also aims at being fast and responsive. SQLTools' powerful editor has many features to... Read more

SQuirreL SQL Client
Relational Database Systems can make life difficult, especially when working with multiple databases. Squirrel is an open-source SQL Client that will help you solve database problems with its... Read more

StarUML 5.0
StarUML is a great open source UML application. Supporting UML 2.0 and MDA (Model Driven Architecture) StarUML let's you work with all related diagrams. Code generation can be done for Java, C++ and... Read more

TOra 2.0
TOra is an open source database administration and sql tool for Oracle. With TOra you can perform virtually any administrative task on your Oracle database servers - anything from user and security... Read more

Valgrind 3.5.0
Valgrind is an open source memory debugger with some extra features. Detecting leaks and other memory related programming errors as well as threading bugs. Valgrind also includes a great call-graph... Read more

WinMerge 2.6
WinMerge is an excellent tool for developers that simplifies merging. Start by selecting two directories and WinMerge will quickly show you which files are alike - and which there are different and... Read more

XML Copy Editor 1.2
XML Copy Editor is a versatile XML editor primarily focused on text editing with XML files. However, XML Copy Editor provides many other features including validation of DTD and XML schemas - as well... Read more

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