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    Say goodbye to broken revenue funnels and poor customer experiences

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    LeanData is a Demand Management solution that supports all go-to-market strategies such as account-based sales development, geo-based territories, and more. LeanData features a visual, intuitive workflow native to Salesforce that enables users to view their entire lead flow in one interface. LeanData allows users to access the drag-and-drop feature to route their leads. LeanData also features an algorithms match that uses multiple fields in Salesforce.
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    SyncTERM

    Cross-platform BBS (ANSI) Terminal

    A cross-platform ANSI-BBS terminal designed to connect to remote BBSs via telnet, rlogin, or SSH. Supports ANSI music and the IBM charset when possible. Will run from a console, under X11 using XLib, or using SDL.
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    Downloads: 289 This Week
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    phpBB

    phpBB

    phpBB is the world's leading open source discussion forum software.

    phpBB is the world's leading Open Source flat style discussion forum software. It includes all the features you expect to find in today's top of the line software.
    Downloads: 41 This Week
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    Qodem Terminal Emulator
    Qodem is a a terminal emulator that resembles the BBS-era Qmodem. Includes phonebook, scrollback, capture, X/Y/Zmodem, Kermit, ANSI (+ music) / Avatar / VT102 / Linux emulation, Unicode, and keyboard macros. Connects over serial, ssh, telnet, rlogin.
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    Downloads: 29 This Week
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    Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font which allows you to view Japanese text arts correctly.
    Downloads: 33 This Week
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  • Total Network Visibility for Network Engineers and IT Managers Icon
    Total Network Visibility for Network Engineers and IT Managers

    Network monitoring and troubleshooting is hard. TotalView makes it easy.

    This means every device on your network, and every interface on every device is automatically analyzed for performance, errors, QoS, and configuration.
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    Yet another Bulletin Board (YaBB)
    YaBB is a FREE Perl forum (bulletin board) system that has rivaled professional message boards for years. YaBB provides chat for visitors where they can post any time and reply to anyone!
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    Qsampler

    Qsampler

    A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface

    Qsampler is a linuxsampler GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. For the moment it just wraps the client interface of LinuxSampler Control Protocol (LSCP) (http://www.linuxsampler.org).
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    Downloads: 33 This Week
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    Apache Answer

    Apache Answer

    Free and open source Q&A platform software for all the teams.

    Apache Answer is an open-source software project under incubation at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). It empowers you to build a robust question-and-answer (Q&A) platform to thrive your community at ease. Apache Answer is capable for but not limited to: Community Forum: Open discussions and knowledge sharing within your online community. Help Center: Provide a central location for users to find answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) and troubleshoot issues related to your product or service. Knowledge Base: Create a searchable repository of valuable information and best practices for your team or organization. Discover more by yourself.
    Downloads: 27 This Week
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    AJAX Chat - Open Source Web Chat

    Fully customizable web chat created using AJAX.

    MOVED: This project has moved to https://github.com/Frug/AJAX-Chat AJAX Chat is a fully customizable web chat implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL which integrates nicely with common forum systems like phpBB, MyBB, PunBB, SMF and vBulletin. A Flash and Ruby based socket connection can be used to boost performance.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    mvnForum is a open source, powerful, easy to use/setup bulletin board (forum) built on the J2EE technology(Jsp/Servlet) and compatible with any Servlet Container which supports Jsp 1.2 and Servlet 2.3. The official home page is www.mvnForum.com
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    eProcurement Software

    Enterprises and companies seeking a solution to manage all their procurement operations and processes

    eBuyerAssist by Eyvo is a cloud-based procurement solution designed for businesses of all sizes and industries. Fully modular and scalable, it streamlines the entire procurement lifecycle—from requisition to fulfillment. The platform includes powerful tools for strategic sourcing, supplier management, warehouse operations, and contract oversight. Additional modules cover purchase orders, approval workflows, inventory and asset management, customer orders, budget control, cost accounting, invoice matching, vendor credit checks, and risk analysis. eBuyerAssist centralizes all procurement functions into a single, easy-to-use system—improving visibility, control, and efficiency across your organization. Whether you're aiming to reduce costs, enhance compliance, or align procurement with broader business goals, eBuyerAssist helps you get there faster, smarter, and with measurable results.
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    MultiMail Offline Reader
    MultiMail is an offline mail packet reader for Unix and other systems. It currently supports the Blue Wave, QWK, OMEN, OPX and SOUP formats. It has a full screen, color user interface, built with the curses library.
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    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    QTerm is a BBS client in Linux.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    ACiD View 6 is is a multimedia viewer for Windows. Its the first to support a variety of both textmode and bitmap graphic formats such as ANSI/ASCII, XBIN, GIF, JPEG and PNG. Additional features include a modem-speed simulator, VGA previewing and more!
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    The full source code release of the Maximus bulletin board software and related projects (including Squish and other utilities).
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    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    phpbb-language-zh-cmn-hans

    phpBB Chinese Language Pack

    简体中文语言包,唯一 phpBB 官方认可。 phpBB 简体中文支持社区 包括 phpBB 3.3.x, phpBB 3.2.x, phpBB 3.1.x, phpBB 3.0.x,四个版本的中文简体的官方支持论坛 https://www.phpbbchinese.com/ 下载语言包或者 phpBB 完整中文安装包,简体中文语言相关的问题,以及使用安装的问题都可以获得解答。
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    MBSE BBS for Linux & Unix

    MBSE BBS is a full FTN-capable ANSI BBS and mailer package.

    MBSE BBS is a fully FTN-capable ANSI BBS package including a mailer (ifcico clone), BinkP daemon, mail tosser, TIC processor, filefind, and other utilities allowing access via modem and the Internet using telnet, ssh, http and ftp. Support is offered through the Fidonet MBSE echo and the Micronet MIN_BBS echo.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    French phpBB Translation
    This is the Standard French translation project for phpBB3. We are doing translations of the actual software itself (language files, packages and imagesets).
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Navigator for 2ch(navi2ch) is a '2ch bbs' browser worked on Emacsen.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    GNU/Linux-compatible version of the now unavailable Red Light Variety Alpha software, a Hotline protocol client and server with Japanese language support. Future versions aim at more internationalization and better sharing functions.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    TundraDraw is a cross-platform ANSI drawing program written with C++, using the Qt Toolkit. Thus, it runs natively on both X environments and Windows. It features network connectivity to allow artists to draw together over the Internet.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    ReloadCMS is a free CMS written on PHP and based on flat files. It does not need any DB installed(!) and realise all abilities of high-level CMS like modularity, templates, users management, advanced rights system and package of main modules.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    MathJax
    MathJax is a modular javascript framework for including mathematics in web pages. It can take input in various formats, like TeX and MathML, and can produce output in various forms, such as MathML or HTML-with-CSS. Components are loaded as needed.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Filemgr

    Filemgr a BBS file & .tic tosser

    Filemgr a BBS file & .tic tosser for Sysops. Currently written in Turbo Pascal and some assembler under Msdos/Windows & Linux in a Dos Box.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    FreeDoor is a 32-bit BBS Door Development Kit for Windows and OS/2. All up-to-date information and future releases are available from http://www.elysoft.net/
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    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Termix is a Linux (UNIX) telnet client designed for calling telnet BBS,and SCO ANSI. It aims to behave as DOS terminals did; with proper ANSI parsing, scrolling, and character sets -- all in a DOS terminal-like application
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    FMail

    The Fast Echomail Processor/tosser, for Fidonet Technology Networks

    FMail is an opensource echo mail processor/tosser for Hudson and JAM message bases, released under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3. Also included is a message base maintenance utility with a lot of special features. The Windows version can handle more areas than the old DOS version and is optimized for use with 32 & 64-bit versions of MS Windows. But there is also a preliminary Linux version available.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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