good looking business / commercial software for linux

Linare Operating System meets entire needs and fulfills all requirements of this era. The entire system and its applications are designed to work well with each other and suit your individual computing style.
A complete coalition of Internet software offers you intuitive communications capabilities. Built-in tools let you be productive immediately. Linare provides a luscious, glossy look, across every application and the utilities you need to control and customize your system. Best of all, it just works.
Main features:
- Linare offers an user-friendly and gives a new look and feel.
- Includes simple and well-structured menu.
- Access files on local drives, CD-Rom, Floppy disk just on single click.
- Automatic mount and unmount action allowing user to easily access CD-ROMs and floppies.
- Converts .doc files to .pdf files wihtout any convertor tools.
- Compress files with ease.
- KDE 3.2.2,OpenOffice.org 1.1, Evolution Mail, Gaim are included.
- Provides a full featured word, spreadsheet, presentation tool.
- Supports both vector and bitmap images.
- You can export presentations and drawings to the Macromedia Flash format (.swf) and can view presentations in a simple web browser that has the Flash plugin installed.
- Enables to analyse, calulate your numbers and communicate your data quickly and easily. Presents many built-in tools to generate 3D and 2D charts with Calc.
- Create effective multimedia presentations with special effects, animation with Impress
- You can create brochures, newsletters, reports, documents everything from business letters to books with professional layouts with writer.
- You can create everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D images and special effects.
- Users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.
- Fully-featured email client has features such as support for IMAP, POP3, multiple accounts, powerful filters, PGP/GnuPG privacy, inline attachments, and much more.
- Mozilla, a fast, secure, featureful web browser enables tabbed browsing and blocks Pop-up windows. Includes Mail and HTML Editor.
- Can hold face-to-face conversations with friends and family, and collaborate with co-workers around the world using your PC and Internet.
- Keeps all your downloads in one dialog and you can add and remove transfers. Transfers can be paused, resumed, queued or scheduled.
- Includes Evolution Mail.Check upcoming appointments, new messages, weather, and news at a glance.
- View and send email in either HTML or text formats. On-the-fly spell checker helps you create professional email without slowing down.
- Supports major industry communications standards to connect Linux and UNIX users to existing infrastructure. With Connector, Evolution works even more closely with Microsoft Exchange servers to connect Linux and UNIX systems to the rest of the organization.
- You can scan images, view graphics of different formats such as PostScript, TIff etc.,
- Can convert images to other graphics formats.
- Supports virtual fonts and fonts in TeX PK, Type 1 and TrueType formats.
- Includes GIMP, enables tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
- You can take screenshots, capable of capturing images of either the whole desktop or just a single window.
- You can view your CDs, Hear your favourites, record songs.
- Can play MP3 files.
- RealPlayer 8 lets you experience the broadest range of cool audio and video (A/V) content on the Web at the click of a button.
- Includes Noatun featured with audio effects, a six-band graphic equalizer, a full plugin architecture, network transparency, and several look and feels!

Group-Office is a Web-based office suite written that is extensible with modules. Group-Office features user management, module management, an email client, a file manager, a calendar, project management, Web site management, and customer relations management.
It also features synchronization with PDAs and Outlook.
Main features:
Speed
- The World Wide Wait bugs us all every day and the critical business applications that Group-Office provides cant be hindered by being slow. Group-Office is specifically designed to perform tasks as quickly as possible.
Simplicity
- The Graphical User Interface is designed in a way that everybody intuitively finds the functions they are looking for. Group-Office strives to be as simple as possible without losing functionality.
Modularity
- As an ever-changing software product, upgrades should be as painless as possible. This means that good code design is critical. Group-Office is designed in a modular way that makes upgrades easy and painless.
Scalability
- Group-Office is designed to be usable for 1 to thousands of user
Enhancements:
- Better import for sync
- Updated Czech language
- Implemented new version of jupload

Big Faceless Report Generator 1.1.43 offers you a Java application for converting source documents written in XML to PDF. Big Faceless Report Generator project is a Java application for converting source documents written in XML to PDF.

Built on top of the Big Faceless PDF & Graph Libraries, the Report Generator combines these features and wraps an XML parser around them. Using JSP, ASP, XSL, or similar, creating dynamic PDF documents directly from a database is now as easy as HTML.

BFO's Java Reporting tool provides some of the most comprehensive and advanced XML to PDF conversion on the market.As the XML is based on XHTML and uses CSS the learning curve is drastically reduced - report designers don't have to learn an entirely new grammar, so are up and running quicker.

The "two-stage" system of first generating the XML and then converting it to PDF means you can generate XML with any tool, although JSPs are the natural choice. This means you have access to the full range of Tag Libraries designed for JSP. Database connectivity is all taken care of before the XML conversion begins, so you can use whatever method you prefer to get your information from the backend into XML. The whole process is remarkably simple.

Major Features:

1. HTML-style Tables auto-sized nested tables with full control over padding, margins and borders
2. Use cascading CSS2 stylesheets to control look and feel
3. Create inline graphs and charts with XML, direct from the database
4. Includes a servlet and a servlet filter for simple generation of PDFs from XML or JSP pages.
5. Auto pagination of content with page headers and footers
6. Familiar HTML syntax < a >, < ul >, < p >, < table >, < td > and so on simpler and faster than FOP
7. All the features of the PDF library Unicode support, Encryption, TrueType fonts, Barcodes and more

Enhancements:

• No changes to the Report Generator layer
• Built with PDF library 2.11.6, Graph Library 1.1.6

Requirements:

• Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment
• SAX parser