Innovation Technology and Open Source.

Fabrizio Martelli
Managing to combine cost and technological innovation in business is quite complicated.

It’s a need anyway to have a company that develops and takes full advantage of new technologies

by simplifying business processes.

By identifying both efficiency and effectiveness of a process (or a series of processes), needs to

understand whether the current organization of the same is optimal.

Not being able to study in detailed level the economic differences from the existing processes

and any new one, since otherwise the study could cost more than the entire deployment, it is

essential to have a meter to judge the cost of implementing new processes quite simple.

Only the analysis of any new processes, however, makes sure that those who can decide is able to

Understand whether the review of the methods can bring innovation, efficiency and effectiveness
in the company.

In my opinion, it is essential to consider seriously the chance of adopting Open Source software,

since there are now available several tools very efficient and effective in the landscape of free

software.

In terms of maintenance, the features of these software are much more efficient then

commercial software, contrary to what many people thinks. The new releases
versions or bug fixes are usually much more fast and rapid.

In practice, the most popular services currently provided by commercial software such as firewalls,

e-mail, collaboration tools, web server (internet and intranet), file servers,
tools providing encrypted remote connections via internet and wi-fi can be used with Open Source

software with considerable lower costs (many of them at no cost) and without limitation of licenses

for user.

The choice to replace services with Open Source software instead of an upgrade software

(that usually needs to be paid) is currently used independently from the cost of the upgrade,

and perhaps there is no need to spend money for hardware as often the business software update

requires additional resources, while the Open Source software is usually less

greedy for resources, especially for what concerns the services.

Estremi srl is as core business of technology and architecture of SAP solutions.

It is a Linux company, meaning that it uses only the Linux platform for its operating needs.

In addition to core business, Estremi srl deals with security, networks, Internet services and it is

committed to the spread of Open Source software.

Estremi srl has designed a range of services, all made with Open Source software, dedicated to

companies of different sizes, as all services are easily scalable.

The family of products is called "Internet Ready" and ranges from simple firewall for the connection

to the Internet to a complex structure in high availability for the delivery of the same with
minor disruption in the event of hardware failure.

The family of products can be used by all kind of companies: from the micro enterprise of one or two

people, to the large company with hundreds or thousands of users.

This is an example of objects in which Estremi srl can help using Open Source Software.

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