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[News] Advertising Firm Moves to GNU/Linux

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Advertising Firm Standardizes On Ubuntu Linux Servers, Desktops 

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| Advertising and marketing agencies have been loyal to the Apple Macintosh for 
| more than two decades. But Yooter InterActive Marketing Agency is breaking 
| from tradition and standardizing on Ubuntu Server Edition and Ubuntu Desktop 
| Edition, Works With U has learned. Here are the details.   
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http://www.workswithu.com/2008/09/02/advertising-firm-standardizes-on-ubuntu-linux-servers-desktops/


Recent:

OSS a ‘good choice’ for SMEs

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| “For example, in a desktop environment in which users just need a simple web
| interface, basic word processing and a spreadsheet, an open source package
| such as Ubuntu running OpenOffice would be perfect. These users don’t need
| the bells and whistles of a Microsoft Office.”
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2731


Related:

Can a small business afford not to run Linux?

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| Small businesses are considered by many as the backbone of a healthy economy.
| Collectively, they are by far the biggest employer of labour but individually
| they are most vulnerable to changes in the economic climate. Keeping their
| computer systems running as smoothly and as cost effectively as possible is
| mandatory and therefore, for a small business, so is Linux.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15298/1023/


Free and Open Source Software Guide for SMEs

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| Two EU-funded projects in the area of Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS),
| namely OpenTTT and FLOSSMETRICS, have recently published a F/OSS guide for
| SMEs. Different types of software applications and businesses are addressed,
| making this guide useful for most SMEs that wish to simply use F/OSS or even
| build a F/OSS-based business approach.
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http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/guide-for-smes001


Linux well suited to SMB market

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| "Small businesses are looking to save money on technology," says Kamini
| Rupani, a product director with Avocent. "In a time of tightened licensing,
| escalating software costs, relative to total costs, and low initial costs of
| Linux and its cadre of tools, SMBs are looking at the strategy of considering
| open-source software.    
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| Linux is well suited for a smaller organization because it scales
| incrementally without large initial cash outlays. SMBs can tailor their
| enterprises to better fit their needs with Linux."  
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http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=47379&cid=11


Linux for the SMB market: slow? steady? or both?

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| Everywhere you turn nowadays, another company is targeting the Small and
| Medium Business (SMB) marketplace. SMBs are growing, and represent a segment
| of the IT market that has not been fully exploited by many, including open
| source software vendors that boasted early successes with large enterprises.
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| [...]
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| Nearly three years ago, AMI Partners researched the Linux penetration into
| the SMB marketplace. According to their research, Linux had penetrated about
| a fourth of all companies with 100 to 249 employees.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/022808-linux-smb.html


Follow the money in SMB open source market

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| Where Microsoft has developed an enormous business in training re-sellers,
| and finding them prospects, open source vendors have barely begun this
| process.  
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| You might call it Ballmer’s Revenge, because it’s Steve Ballmer who deserves
| the credit for building this organization.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1817


Going Open for SMB?

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| If you're looking for a way to get documents prepared, run what-if scenarios,
| and create sales presentations to show in a customer's office, then
| OpenOffice.org 2.3 is a very realistic option.  
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/smbit/archives/2007/10/going_open_for.html


Free Software for the SMB

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| With more than 25.8 million small businesses currently in the U.S. and
| 671,000 new companies getting started every year, purveyors of free business
| software have lots of potential customers to attract. Open source vendors
| provide a wide collection of free software.  
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59837.html
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