As a Senior System Administrator with over 12 years experience and have been involved with Linux since 1996 WE know Linux inside and out, from the kernel to drivers, from SaaS applications, cloud computing, clustering, to firewalls. With extensive experience in Security, and Network Administration, in small and enterprise settings we bring real world answers to your data center.

      Here are some notable quotes in the press:

      Arena founder and CTO Eric Larkin says of OpenSource and Linux "....very clear to me that the open source solutions for Web applications were substantially ahead of commercial products in scalability and usability." 

      "More and more SaaS-centric companies are moving to Linux and open source. In fact, 90 percent of SaaS solutions will use open source by 2010, according to Gartner."

     Most situations require technical decisions to be made within the context of larger business constraints. Throughout We have advocated the proper strategic steps to keep the business issues at the center of what drives Information Technology development.  

Here is a quick thumbnail list of what is wrong with proprietary software running a SaaS / cloud environment:

• inability to control costs—fees, subscriptions
• no control over choice of hardware specifications
• no control over connection protocols
• no right to change applications or access source code—or write new ones
• problems encrypting your own data (except during transmission)
• some cloud hosts are free, as in beer but not speech
• inability to control the economic business model determining a host’s viability
• you can’t host the cloud where you want it
• unable to scale hardware and software configurations

    As you can see  proprietary software, hardware, and operations systems can limit your ability to grow, scale, and change as your business does the same. Why not start out with that in mind and let us help you leverage open source to fit your business needs. 

By Richard Hillesley, 25 Feb 2009 at 19:08 "For a long time, nobody but the nerds and geeks and the occasional sysadmin took Linux and free software seriously. But now it seems that every corporation has its finger in the open source pie" 

So let us help you bake that pie and eat it too! Contact us @ Sales@linuxsystems.net