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The facts are The Open Source software movement has gone wild. Because no one owns it, because it works great, becasue it is secure...it has taken on a life of it's own through the millions of people who use it. It has been growing this way for the last ten years, slowly and without any significant marketing help or understanding.

It's at a point now, where it can be trusted with your data. It is at a point now where it can be used by the average business person. All that's necessary is a little encouragement to give you the confidence you need. But don't take our word for it, read the facts about why you need to move to the open source software. Read about the wildfire growth.

  1. If you run a sic code search in Harte Hanks for which industry sector is using the Open Source most, you'll discover that it's the technology integrators (those who manage IT on behalf of those who've grown too big to do it for themselves). What this means is that Integration professionals feel confident about risking their reputations on it. In fact, Integrators know that if their services to their big customers go down, they pay contract-negotiated penalties. Because they have some of the greatest IT minds in North America working for them, they know that Open Source code works better than anything else. Knowing that it represents the lowest cost of ownership and freedom of software licensing from the business side, OpenSource software is the best possible way of staying alive as Integrators in this competitive world market.
  2. The US Department of Defense uses only Open Source software for their security, because it's open and can be locked down.
  3. Google, Yahoo, Cisco, Ticketmaster, and Nasa --all leading edge technology companies -- use the MySQL as their database, an opensource application,
  4. Brazil has mandated that Open Source software be used in the government,
  5. Computer scientists worldwide are contributing to it in their spare time for no money whatsoever because they love it that much.
  6. IBM announced in 2001 a commitment of a billion dollars for Linux research, development and promotion.
  7. Most corporate software applications are now available to run on Linux, such as Oracle.
  8. O'Reilly's, the leading producer of IT books, nearly exclusively produces Open Source related material, a trend that clearly demonstrates the foundations of IT now and in the years to come.
Think of this growth in terms of what it could do for you. Take that moment; think outside of the IT business model you use today. Change is evolution and evolution is how we grow. Open Source change is giving the advantage. Realize how little investment you need to make to bring these benefits to your business. All that's necessary is a little help to give you the confidence you need. That's where we come in. We help you to do it for yourself.

We're changing the IT world holding nothing but the Open Source in our hands.

Sincerely,

PS We are the Open Source Sun. The Sky is the limit.