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VARBusiness: New Solution Leads To New Business For Linux Consultant

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 29, 1999

“Ron Colcernian is in the business of re-engineering business.
His consultancy, Dynamic Results of Birmingham, MI., helps small to
mid-sized business refine and reconstruct their organizations
through information technology.”

“But after he deployed a Linux solution to move a hospital
supplies firm’s 100 workstations onto systems that could access
both the company’s AS/400 and Unix servers, he found himself
re-engineering his own business and launching his own reseller
program.”

Binson’s Hospital Supply needed to deploying 230 PCs, an
order that–with licenses–would have cost it approximately
$310,500. But the Linux solution dropped the cost to $115,000–a
savings of $195,500.

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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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