The Great 2006 Software Review -blog of the day

[ED: he added Firebird 2.0 RC3 in his list of great software releases for the previous year but he forgot that firebird final was released in November]

2006 was a great year for software. I thought I would make my first post of the new year as a review of the software that was released last year that caught my interest. This is software that I think will have an impact on the world (some big, some small). It is not necessarily software that I use on a regular basis (or at all :).