January/February of 2011, you'll get the first book in the League of Scientists. It's about a group of science geeks in seventh grade who use science and critical thinking to solve seemingly-supernatural mysteries. Seems to be right in line with the poster's request.

[Disclaimer: I'm the author.]

The IBM iSeries Integrated xSeries Server scoffs at this late entry. That's what they call the "IxS". Also used to be called the "IFS". Earlier versions ran Windows 2000 Server. A little limited in the old days in terms of CPU, but they're pretty nice today. Drive speed, however, has always been phenomenal.

I have a list of freeware equivalents of Windows commercial software.

Comprehensive? Not as much as I'd like. Subjective? Probably. But it still should help with the original question. And save ya money, too.