Your organization runs on the leading open source desktop Ubuntu.  Your system, communication, productivity, and collaboration software are the world's best open source in their category, from the office suite LibreOffice to the customer relationship management application vTiger, to the document management system Nuxeo.

Open source also provides your organization with unsurpassed security. Starting with Ubuntu Linux, which incorporates security into its very architecture, to the encryption that protects your virtual desktop, your organization is strongly protected from unauthorized access. Ubuntu has ever had a virus. 

And of course, open source enables use and deployment without license restrictions. This is why we can provide an application to every user when it's included in a package. We have no fees to pass on to you. 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 new functionality at about twice the rate of closed software. We will update components every two years, with each new release of the long term support version of Ubuntu, no license costs involved.

If you are wish the convenience, security, and mobility advantages of the cloud, then it is particularly important to use an open solution. If you wish to leave a closed cloud offering, getting your data and setting up compatible software could be costly and time-consuming.

On the other hand, 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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