Sirius Corporation Ltd
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Sirius Corporation Ltd is a company based in Weybridge, United Kingdom which provides a range of open source services to medium and enterprise level organisations to allow them to maximise their productivity whilst minimising their risk. Sirius provide network and infrastructure deployment, application development and technical support.
Open Source is a model being utilised by many in place of proprietary (licenced) software. Wikipedia is an example of a project based on the philosophy of open source.
Sirius provide a full Enterprise Stack which can include, but is not limited to, products such as Asterisk (VoIP), JBoss (application server), Apache (web server), Squid (proxy), OGo/Scalix (groupware), Sendmail/Cyrus (email), Samba/CUPS (file & print), OpenLDAP (directory server), PostgreSQL (database) and Linux (operating system).
Mark Taylor formed Sirius Corporation in 1998 and has been the CEO throughout the company's history. He is also President of the Open Source Consortium.
Sirius have worked with household brands includuing Pepsico, BOC, Three, Sony Ericsson and SpecSavers.
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