“By the Demand of Users… GeekCast expands Benevolent
Penguin Internet Service Offering to include Corporate VPN users.
Significant expansion of fund raising expected.“
“When GeekCast.Com Network launched their BPS Internet Access
service to raise funds for Linux community and good works projects,
they had no idea of the size of the response, nor the directions it
would lead.”
“Announced with a January 1st 2000 official opening, BPS
Internet Access has proved to be a very successful fundraiser for
The Benevolent Penguin Society, a Linux community benevolence
organization. In the words of Geekcast CEO Jeff Gerhardt “our
thought process on this was that you have to get Internet service
from somewhere, you might as well get that service from someone
that is going to help the Linux Community achieve their goals. The
success of the DSL side of the project has been huge, with far
beyond 500 people checking on sevice availability. What has driven
the service to the next level is the inquiries by CIO’s and network
managers of corporations that either support Linux as a user or
Linux vendors themselves; that want to use the service as a bridge
to their corporate VPN. For that purpose we are proud to announce
the new Pass Through Service, that takes advantage of our national
Dial-Up and DSL networks as a bridge network to the corporate
LAN….”
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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