Your organization runs on Ubuntu, the world's leading open source desktop.  Whichever package you choose, your productivity and collaboration applications are the the world's best open source in their category, from the world's second most popular office suite LibreOffice (MS compatible), to the powerful customer relationship management application vTiger, to the easy to use document management system Nuxeo.

Open source also provides organizations with the benefit of unsurpassed security. Starting with Ubuntu, incorporating security into its very architecture, to the encryption that protects your virtual desktop, your organization is strongly protected from unwanted access. Are you concerned about viruses? If so, you will be glad to hear that Ubuntu has ever had a problem with viruses or any other type of malware. 

And of course, open source lets you use as many copies as you want without license restrictions. This is why we provide an application to every user of an organization when it's included in their selected package. There are no extra costs, and it resolves a lot of problems getting people access one-by-one in the future. Of course, the organization superuser always retains full administrator control of all collaboration applications.

Since development of open source responds to user needs, not business cycles, many open source components provide releases with new functionality at about twice the rate of closed software. Cirrus Computing updates components every two years, with each new release of the long term support version of Ubuntu, and there are no license costs involved.

If you are considering the advantages of the cloud - cost, convenience, security, mobility - then it is particularly important to consider an open solution. If you ever wish to leave a closed cloud offering, then getting all of your data and compatible software could be more costly and time-consuming than expected. 

With Cirrus Computing's solution, you can always obtain the same open source applications and all of your data at no cost at any time, and then setup a local system if you wish. Open source seems to have been made for the cloud: a ready-to-go solution to the main customer concern - can I get my software and data if I ever want it? Yes, you can.

As a company we also support the global open source ecosystem where we can, and are committed to helping more to further its development through contribution of enhancements, organization and foundation support, and funding of individual features and functionality.

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