// Linux for Business Consulting
We help businesses migrate from proprietary operating systems and software to robust, open-source alternatives - reducing licensing costs, regaining control of your infrastructure, and investing your IT budget into tools that truly serve your needs.
// mission
The proprietary software cycle demands you keep buying hardware and licenses to stay supported, but it doesn't have to be that way. The open-source community has developed tools that can work for you on hardware you already own.
Each new Windows release renders functional hardware obsolete. Businesses discard perfectly capable machines, pay escalating licensing fees, and lose control over their own data and workflows without the expertise or support to migrate.
We audit your current environment, identify compatible open-source replacements, and manage your migration. Any profits we make get redirected into funding development of the open-source tools your business relies on.
Small and medium businesses, nonprofits, schools, and municipalities - any organisation whose daily computing needs are browsers, documents, spreadsheets, email, and line-of-business applications. If you find yourself irked by Windows-specific software, odds are we can find a solution to help you.
Windows 11's hardware requirements already forced one wave of
early retirement of perfectly good hardware. Let's not do that again.
Windows is already putting adds and telemetry directly into your
operating system, and continues to push your data into their proprietary
cloud. We believe that is unnecessary, anti-consumer and a threat to
the digital privacy of both you and your business.
We are here to help you take ownership of your business devices. Linux
solutions underpin the majority of the computing world, increasingly
linux shows that it can serve the
interests of business users, administrators and owners in addition to
developers and hobbyists. Let's take the step to linux so that you can
own your data, have full transparency and observability on all of your
business machines, and make the most of hardware that you already own.
// services
End-to-end migration planning and ongoing support, tailored to the scale and pace that fits your business.
We map your current hardware and software, identify dependencies, and produce a clear migration roadmap with risk assessments and cost comparisons.
Workstation and server deployments using Ubuntu LTS, or distributions suited to your use case. We train your staff to use and manage linux environments and provide documentation and support for doing so on a continued basis.
Migration from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice alongside training and customization so that your employees feel familiar with the interface and features.
Deployment and customisation of OpenERP / Odoo Community Edition for inventory, accounting, CRM, and HR services. Many of these softwares support extensive automation so that you don't feel stressed for tax season
Linux-based firewall, VPN, and intrusion-detection setup using tools like pfSense, WireGuard, and Snort. Open and auditable by design.
Managed support contracts covering patch management, user administration, backup configuration, and help-desk for your Linux fleet.
Practical, in-person workshops covering daily workflows in LibreOffice, web-based collaboration tools, and basic Linux desktop usage. We will even come and do our work at your office if you want a consistent presence!
Replace cloud subscriptions with self-hosted Nextcloud, open document formats, and backup strategies that keep your data under your control.
// software we work with
Every project we recommend is actively maintained, freely auditable, and backed by a community or foundation with long-term stability.
// how we operate
We operate on a near-nonprofit model. Rather than extracting maximum margin, any surplus revenue is directed toward funding the open-source projects your business depends on. Revenue we use goes towards staff pay and our infrastructure costs.
Fair-rate consulting fees cover the migration, training, and support work we do for your organisation.
Salaries, infrastructure, and operations are funded; a
Remaining profit goes to the foundations and maintainers behind the software we deploy: LibreOffice, GNU, Nextcloud, and others.
Better upstream software means better outcomes for every business we work with, including yours, in future engagements.
We publish an annual transparency report detailing where reinvestment funds go.
// get in touch
Whether you are evaluating a migration, concerned about an upcoming hardware refresh cycle, or simply want to understand your options - we are happy to have an initial no-obligation conversation.
We do not use contact data for any purpose other than responding to your enquiry. We do not use trackers, analytics or third party scripts.