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Enterprise Linux Today: Migrating to TuboLinux – A Big Step For A Small Bank

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 26, 2000

Being small though, a perceived disadvantage, can in fact
be beneficial when making changes to a company’s
infrastructure.

“First Credit’s IS director, Kourosh Ghassemieh, started with a
system based on NT, with licensing costs in excess of $10,000 to
support 2 locations, 40 desktops, application serving, file and
print services and email. However, remote administration became a
nightmare.”

“Administration is a huge hassle because I really can’t do
anything remotely on NT,” he said. “I have to drive between
branches almost daily and that takes me out of commission for an
hour each way, which means I have lots less time for other
IT-related tasks.”

“In addition, the hassles of software upgrades and patch
application motivated Mr. Ghassemieh to seek out a better software
solution. For that he turned to TurboLinux.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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