Guardian Technology Group - Cost Reduction Strategies

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What are Open Source Technologies?

Over the last 10 years Open Source technologies have become high demand, high quality alternatives to proprietary technologies (e.g servers, back-up systems, antivirus, desktop software and so on). These products provide business owners with reduced I.T costs, improved stability, greater security and often longer lifecycles. It scales very well too, whether you have 3 or 3000 computers with Windows, Mac or Linux open source technologies can be customised to do the job. In short Open source technology is affordable, stable, secure and powerful!

How Open Source Technologies Reduce Business Costs

Reduce business costs with lower acquisition and longer life cycles
Servers with Open Source operating systems are not susceptible to viruses, worms or spyware.
Cross Platform Flexibility - compatible with Windows, Apple Mac, Linux and Unix!
No licensing fees regardless of how many users you have and no forced upgrades
Superior security and stability. Open Source operating systems & technologies are highly resilient to crashes and require less attention.
Run on lower specification / older hardware and does not require continual hardware upgrades
Open source technologies are supported in every country on the globe - finding ongoing support is easy!

Did You Know?

68% of the internet runs on Linux, Apache or other Open Source technologies.
OPSM optometry use Open Source desktop computers in all their Australian retail stores
Suncorp banking use Open Source technologies on over 20,000 computers & servers
Amazon.com switched from windows to Open Source Linux servers and saved $17M US
DreamWorks, Pixar, Disney, Sony, Boeing, IBM, Disney and Merrill & Lynch all use Open Source systems.
Our sites server is powered by Open Source technologies (Apache II & Ubuntu Linux Server) and cost us $0 (zero dollars) to set up!

"We Support People, Not Just Computers!"