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Painless Linux Support and Integration |
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More and more organisations are seriously considering Linux (and Mac OS X) and opensource applications. Often the greatest IT risk facing businesses is not catastrophe but simple overspending. One of the ways to cut costs is to move from resource hungry applications with expensive hardware and licensing requirements and consider free and robust opensource applications running on the Linux operating system. Linux, the free Unix like operating system now has some powerful vendors behind it, including Novell and IBM.
Linux (and Mac OS X) are far less prone to viruses than MS Windows applications. There are about 60,000 known viruses that affect PCs running Windows and as little as 40 viruses that can infect Linux based workstations. Windows viruses can cause widespread catastrophic affects but the few Linux viruses that there are have never been widespread because of the operating system's inherent security advantages.
help4IT Linux Support have thorough experience integrating Linux and opensource applications. Some of the opensource applications we currently support are shown below:
- Linux Desktop PC with OpenOffice Suite and Evolution Exchange Client
- Network file and Print server
- SQL database server
- Firewall and Intrusion detection system
- Email gateway with anti-SPAM and anti-virus
- Web server
- Streaming media server
- Network and server monitoring
- Customer Relationship Management
- Content Management system for websites
- Clustering, realtime replication and high availability
- helpdesk system
- Knowledge management
- Telephone systems with VoIP
- Rapid applicaton development environments
- Fax server
- FTP server
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