Here is an article in ComputerWorld about how you can go about switching to Linux without losing functionality:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/art ... hm_ts_head
A fairly nice link included in the article is a list of Apps that compare Windows apps to Linux ones:
http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
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