:Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel: Some Small Businesses Find Linux Computer Networks a Big Savings
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel: Some Small Businesses Find Linux Computer Networks a Big Savings Jul 16, 2003, 01 :00 UTC (11 Talkback[s]) (8890 reads) (Other stories by Christine Winter)
"At Uniweld Products Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, Weyland Smith, systems administrator, started delving into the options available when the company needed new computer services, including an in-house mail server, about a year and a half ago.
"His decision after two months of 'solid investigation' was to install an open source operating system known as Linux, despite the trepidation of management about moving from the more-traditional Windows environment.
"'We haven't looked back,' said Smith, now known as the company's Linux systems administrator. Since then, Uniweld has gradually moved more of its operations to Linux, as Smith feels the software has 'proven' itself..."
