Businesses everywhere are looking to cut costs in the grip of reduced consumer spending, decreased advertising and a general slowdown of trade. Linux can aid you in cutting your infrastructure costs - no matter your platform of choice.

If your company is like mine you have a data centre somewhere; ours is in a co-location facility managed by Global Switch with 100mbps Internet and 30mbps WAN connections, redundant power supplies, air conditioning, racks of servers, storage arrays and automated tape loaders.

It’s a technical marvel but we pump lots of cash into this. As important as technology is, IT departments worldwide are cognoscente of the fact they do not typically generate revenue for the business.

IT costs money, let’s be sensible about that. E-mail, web sites, network connections and the like should all be considered part of the indispensable cost of doing business just as much as telephones, faxes, desks, photocopiers and business cards.

However,

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