Specsavers Sees Clear Benefits in Open Source | Linux Today

Specsavers Sees Clear Benefits in Open Source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 26, 2008

“Mike Banahan, chief technology officer of OpenForum Europe,
once described the UK as a ‘third-world country’ compared with the
rest of Europe when it comes to public- and private-sector interest
in open-source software.

“But some UK companies provide evidence that tells a different
side of the story, and one of these is Specsavers Optical Group
with its recent deployment of the open-source tools OpenLDAP, Samba
and Gosa to handle directory services for its worldwide chain of
optician stores…”


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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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