Open source unlocks options for many businesses
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| It's a direction that an increasing number of small and mid-sized firms
| are taking as Linux and open source become battle-tested and are
| finding mainstream acceptance among larger corporations.
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| [...]
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| In addition, the company's ERP system now is running on Red Hat's free
| Fedora Linux, and Losey wrapped up a project to move from Windows to the
| open source Samba file and print server and an open source directory
| server about two months ago.
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| [...]
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| "There is definitely more interest among SMBs in Linux and other open
| source solutions," says Michael Dortch, principal business analyst and
| IT infrastructure management practice leader at the Robert Frances
| Group. "These [applications] have always offered cost savings over
| traditional proprietary solutions, and are now also gaining sufficient
| ease of use, integration, and support to make them more viable options
| for SMBs."
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| [...]
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| Parziale says the college is saving about $30,000 a month by moving to
| Linux and is looking to expand its use of open source. "It's just kind
| of hard to break the Wintel environment," he says.
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| [...]
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| "There is definitely great acceptance of open source applications... It's
| now moved to where you can pick up any of the major publications and
| read about Linux and larger organisations starting to use it," he says.
| "That eliminates a lot of the concerns that senior management has when
| they think you're moving down this untried, untested path, if you cans
| how large companies running the operating system to support major
| applications."
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| [...]
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| Today, the firm has more than 200 employees and continues to look to
| open source in all areas of the business, including the desktop, where
| today about two-thirds of PCs are running Linux.
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