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Hosting Support
Your web server is the hub of your business. It hosts your client's sites,
it markets your company, it is a 24/7 advertising portal for your enterprise.
It needs to be fast, efficient and on... all of the time. Uptime is critical,
downtime is not acceptable. After all, you would not accept excuses for downtime
from your upstream provider..
Your clients rely on you. You maintain their professional reputation
online. You route their email, make sure that it is virus and spam
free. And these systems have to work every minute of the day. Every
time it doesn't, your reputation is in jeopardy. The clients that
you are trying to win may consider that extra 1% downtime unacceptable.
What does it take to achieve this? A team of professional Linux System Administrators
watching over a cluster of redundant servers ready to jump? Does it involve
investing half of the business income back into internal training?
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out about our hosting support strategies
Linux Support
Linux computer systems allow organizations of any size to reduce
operating costs, improve the efficiency of business processes and
interact more effectively with customers and suppliers. This is
achieved through the implementation of Open Source applications
that enable organizations to easily receive, share and disseminate
business data.
Os Office provides Linux onsite support in the southwest of England
and remote support nationwide across Great Britain. We support
and
maintain the majority of mainstream Linux distributions and can
assist British companies integrate Linux within their existing
Windows
server environment.
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out more about Linux support strategies
About Open Source Software
No matter what kind of business you're in, you are almost certainly dependant
on modern software. From Microsoft, to Sage, to Goldmine, these solutions help
you with the day-to-day running of your enterprise. Occasionally you may be
forced to change vendors, applications and methods in order to accommodate improved
working practices or for other reasons entirely. But one thing is constant;
software is expensive. If your business has been dependant on software for a
number of years, you will have probably noticed the rise in costs and management.
In recent years, commercial software vendors have devised elaborate licensing
schemes based on everything from individuals, to workstations, to usage, to
sites, to organizations, to connections, and beyond. Licensing schemes have
in some cases conditioned the environment for software producers to take advantage
of vendor lock-in tactics. This can be difficult and costly to get away from.
Quite often this results in a dissatisfaction with the software that runs your
enterprise! If you purchase a commercial application, you become reliant on
a single company to solve your problems and maintain the software.
With Linux and other open source software, there are no licensing fees. You
don’t need to pay for extra seats—no cost to make copies and run
multiple servers, and no fee differentials for high-end enterprise uses as opposed
to simple desktops. It costs nothing to obtain and nothing to share. The GNU
GPL under which Linux is protected specifically states, "You have the freedom
to distribute copies of free software." This single fact could be worth
significant savings to your organization. Eliminate the cost of an operating
system for every desktop and every server and you could cut your budget considerably.
Add to it an office productivity suite for every desktop and you gain even more.
The only thing that you miss out on is support, and this is where OS
Office can help...
Consultancy
The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in the acceptance
of Linux as a mainstream computing platform, one that is now deemed
enterprise-ready by industry analysis and businesses alike. Though
many organizations are already running Linux as email, Web, or file
servers, an increasing number are bringing Linux into the data centre
and onto their corporate desktop environments.
There are several factors adding to this migration from proprietary
operating systems to Linux. Cost (including acquisitions, licensing,
and ongoing support) is the primary consideration. But there are
other key drivers as well such as growing availability of vendor
applications, software support for Linux on more computer architectures,
and the costs of forced upgrades by Microsoft.
Where does deploying Linux and Open Source make sense? Have crashes,
viruses, DoS attacks, and headaches gotten out of control? Have
you had it with Windows and you want to switch to Linux? What about
the total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI)
story? How do you prepare a business case tailored for Linux? How
do you develop Open Source procurement and risk mitigation guidelines?
Do you plan for a Linux server or desktop deployment? We can help
you to answer theses questions and many more.
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out more about consultancy
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