Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007. That's right; SPD is now free from http://www.microsoft.com/spd [Update] See Tom Rizzo talking about why MS has made SPD free http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvvVJamO3nQ
SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit 2007 aka (SWAT). http://www.idevfactory.com/products/swat/default.aspx
That's really good news indeed. I guess that will help more people get going with SharePoint... Could you possibly elaborate on how SWAT affects the development process? I'm kind of new to this. Thanks.
CardioLog Lite is also free - a FREE SharePoint analytics solution - by Intlock. Enjoy Uri
If this keeps on no one will have to pay for anything ever! Big companies like Google and Microsoft (to a degree) keep giving excellent pieces of software away, but I'm not complaining! Keep it up!
We can recommend you another reporting solution: MAPILab Statistics for SharePoint. This product offers a number of customizable interactive reports, both for evaluating the common site visiting traffic and for reviewing the smallest details, such as user sessions and hits. Here, please learn some more details and online demo: http://www.mapilab.com/sharepoint/statistics/
Sharepoint Server Information WebPart is a free webpart to help administrators troubleshoot load balancing and content database issues. Want to see how your WFEs actually service requests?