WALTHAM, Mass. - June 21, 2004 - Novell's SUSE LINUX products provide a
low-cost, high-quality solution for many non-profit and community
service organizations, proving to be an easy-to-use and stable
alternative to the high costs and instability of Microsoft's Windows
operating systems.
Most of the computers at the Computer Learning Center in Fairfax
County, Va., were donated by Fairfax County and could not maintain the
enormous code included in Windows ME. The computers ran very slowly,
causing frustration among staff and students. "Even though we have a
cable modem, the computers were just too slow and problematic," said
Subroto Mukerji, site director of the Computer Learning Center. Once
SUSE LINUX was installed on all the machines, the center's children were
able to access games, programs and Web sites rapidly and without system
crashes. "SUSE LINUX always seems to work. It never crashes as much as
Windows 98, ME and 2000 do," Mr. Mukerji said.
Tina Thomas is pastor of the Bethlehem and Gassaway United Methodist
Churches in South Carolina. In an attempt to modernize church
operations, Tina and her husband, George, purchased a Wal-Mart PC with
Windows XP, but compatibility problems arose with their version of
Microsoft Office. "Her computer was crashing all the time, like on
Saturday night when she was finishing her sermon for the next
morning," Mr. Thomas explained. Ms. Thomas was initially afraid to
try Linux, but after her husband installed SUSE LINUX, every document
opens smoothly in OpenOffice.org, regardless of the program in which it
was created. "We are indebted to the open source software community
for helping us keep our church communities running smoothly," Ms.
Thomas said.
Running SUSE LINUX, Paul Mundell, national director of canine programs
at the Canine Companions for Independence in Santa Rosa, Calif., created
custom applications using third-party software such as SAS to calculate
breeding values for dogs that are trained as companions for people with
disabilities. According to Mr. Mundell, the SUSE LINUX environment makes
customization quite easy with its package integration and updating,
allowing him to concentrate on the productivity software instead of the
operating system. With its 99.99 percent uptime and superior performance
on the IBM Intellistation M Pro, Mr. Mundell believes SUSE LINUX was the
most cost-effective choice for a flexible and stable programming
environment.
For more information about Novell's Linux
offerings, visit http://www.novell.com/linux.
