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Macintosh Software Standards


Category Product Source Notes
Email Mozilla/Thunderbird
Mail (included with OS from Apple)
Any product that conforms to Unix Standard requirement
Mozilla
Apple
 
 
Internet Browser Mozilla
Netscape
Safari (included with OS from Apple)
Mozilla
Netscape
Apple
 
Operating System Mac OX X 10.3.5 Apple  
File Transfer Built-in FTP client (included with OS from Apple)    
Text Reader Preview (included with OS from Apple, handles PDF and graphics files)
Acrobat Reader (includes forms fill-in plug-in)
Apple
Adobe
1
 
Virus Detection N/A    
Systems Backups Retrospect Retrospect  
Basic Business Applications
(word processor, spreadsheet, presentations)
Microsoft Office X
Microsoft Office 2004 Pro
Textedit (included with OS, can open MS Word documents, RTF documents)
Microsoft
 
 
Calendar/Scheduling Meeting Maker MM 2
Newsgroup Reader Netscape Communicator Suite Netscape  
SSH encrypted login SSH (included with OS)    
Work Request Remedy Remedy 3
X-Window Environment X11 (included with OS)    
Host Access and Network Connectivity SSH    
Project Management Enact Enact 4

Notes Regarding Recommendations

  1. Adobe Acrobat is a suite of tools for publishing documents online in Portable Document Format (PDF). Acrobat Reader is a free tool for viewing PDF documents.
  2. Meeting Maker is used via the web browser
  3. Remedy is a work request standard adopted for SCD work requests.
  4. Enact is a project management standard adopted for SCD projects. It is web-based.