"Metropolitan Bank Group is a large conglomerate in Illinois, comprising 10 banks and $3 billion in assets. As Metropolitan acquired more banking interests, IT Director Tom Johnson needed to find a way to reduce costs and increase efficiency in the face of the company's rapid growth. The solution was a migration from Windows to Linux.
"Because Metropolitan was growing via acquisitions, Johnson found his IT staff spending large amounts of time bringing remote locations into the company infrastructure and working in the field to provide technical support and troubleshooting..."