Development
www.netbeans.org – NETBEANS, my favorite Java IDE
www.eclipse.org – Another free IDE
Databases
Oracle- The big one (express version free)
MS SQL Server 2008 – Another big player (express version free, guess who came first)
www.apachefriends.org – XAMP 1.6.7 (the portable Apache, MySql and PHP for Windows)
www.wampserver.com – WAMP, the alternative to XAMP
www.db4o.com – db4objects, Object Database under GPL
Cache – Object Database by Intersystems
Tools
Notepad++ – NPP 5.0.3 (the windows editor that can do everything but making muffin’s
