The Free and Open Source Advantage

Providing cost-effective, robust software solutions

Cost and complexity of current proprietary software licensing are sometimes prohibitive when planning a build-out of your IT systems.  Whether your technology plans include implementing improved centralized network storage and backup solutions, deploying standardized desktop workstation images or remote access technologies, or integrating web database applications with traditional client-server based softwares, there is a reliable and affordable open-source alternative to standard proprietary solutions.

Reliability

Traditionally popular on web-hosted internet-facing plaforms, products such as Linux and FreeBSD experience higher uptime and workload tolerance statistics when compared against traditional proprietary operating systems.  Open source desktop workstation platforms provide less downtime for the end-user as well as a completely customizable desktop environment.  Database management systems such as mySQL provide time-tested fault-tolerance capabilities on the some of largest existing hosted data infrastructures.  High availability of software upgrades, patches, and add-ons through continuous contributions from a wide community of developers insures quick updating and security patching of your deployed software packages.

Scalability

Due to much lower costs when compared with proprietary solutions, monetary resources can be utilized instead to build out server CPU, memory, physical disk, and network bandwidth to take advantage of features such as CPU clustering, software RAIDs, and network trunking and bonding.  Likewise, the flexibility of open source operating system packages allow you to efficiently leverage older low-horsepower hardware installations by forgoing the installation of unnecessary software and hosting multiple services on a single hardware platform.

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