Unix, the single platform strategy, improves organizational performance by:

  • Simplifying the platform
  • Simplifying the architecture and
  • Simplifying applications of the enterprise.

The two goals of the strategy are:

  • Slash the cost of the organization's computing environment
  • Amplify the effectiveness of the people who drive the success of the organization

Today, with Unix based operating systems from desktop to enterprise, we have the technologies and applications to accomplish these goals with:

  • Low cost
  • High reliability
  • High security
  • High performance

To illustrate:

1. Simplify the platform.

Deploying a combination of Linux and Mac OS X desktops provides the "Last Brick" for creating a single platform Unix environment from the desktop to the network and to the enterprise applications. This accomplishes two cost saving objectives:

  • Eliminates redundant effort required to support similar capabilities across multiple platforms.
  • Eliminates the infrastructure effort required to integrate infrastructures.

The single platform environment reduces costs, simplifies operations, improves security, reliability and performance.

Neither Linux nor Mac OS X alone provides the solution to the Unix desktop.

  • Linux has been developed by skilled programmers to meet the needs of developers, researchers, programmers and other technically skilled professionals.
  • Mac OS X has been developed to bring the power of Unix to students, teachers, parents, homemakers, photographers, illustrators, artists, writers, musicians and cinematographers.

Linux supports power users who can take care of themselves. Mac OS X supports administrative and office users who want to set it and forget it. Mac OS X is an easy to learn and easy to maintain desktop environment that is also a Unix workstation that can be configured and managed by Unix system administrators using familiar Unix tools.

Together Linux and Mac OS X provide the capability to deploy Unix throughout the enterprise. This is a very cost effective alternative to subscription based desktop and workgroup systems.

Desktop to Internet to Network Services to Enterprise. A single, integrated Unix environment.

2. Simplify the Architecture

The single platform environment drives a simplified architecture.

Desktop to Internet to Network Services to Enterprise. A single, integrated Unix environment.

3. Simplify Applications

The goal of simplifying applications is to focus in-house efforts on those applications and services that deliver competitive advantage and dominance. As far as is feasible all other applications are out-sourced either to applications service providers or to third party service providers. With a single platform environment it is easier to organize and manage systems around business goals rather than the technical environment.

4. Amplify Skills and Experience

People at their most effective and productive spend their time building and maintaining good relationships, solving problems creatively and using good judgement. Well organized systems can be used to drive down adminstrative tasks thereby freeing up people to spend more time on relating, creating and judging. This is the goal of the move to a single platform environment.

Use systems to reduce administration time and thereby increase time available

for creative problem solving, building and maintaining strong relationships and using good judgement .

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