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Open Source Software

You may have heard a lot about Linux over the past few years. It's no surprise that Linux is attracting a lot of attention either. It is threatening the revenues of large corporations such as Microsoft who are struggling to justify the high costs of their cumbersome and high maintenance software, particularly on servers.

We have recognised that for a number of years companies have been reluctant to take the plunge and get organised with a server infrastructure simply because the costs have been too prohibitive.

Now imagine a solution that simply charges you - and charges fairly we might add - for the time put into setting up your systems and hardware. That's it. Nothing complicated and nothing you won't need.

Please use the tabbed table below to find out more about Open Source Software.

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Who Uses Open Source?

Open Source software is everywhere. You will be using it right now. This website, just like 65% of all websites world wide, are served on Linux (or similar) Servers running Apache. It is highly likely that your personal email is served from a Linux server. In fact, over 90% of global emails will pass through Open Source servers at some point.

Open Source server applications power well known organisations such as BBC, Amazon, Pixar, The US Government and millions more. They rely upon its security and flexibility, aswell as extremely low Total Cost of Ownership.

Open Source is not limited to the Server market. Desktop users are leveraging the power of Open Source through applications such as OpenOffice, Firefox and countless others. Chances are, you are one of the 90 million people using an Open Source web browser right now.

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