The BOC Group was the official name of the multinational industrial gas company more commonly known as BOC, and now a part of The Linde Group. In September 2004, BOC had over 30,000 employees on six continents, with sales of over £4.6 billion. BOC required a knowledge capture tool, available to all users, to be able to share information easily and gain immediate feedback.

Pentax Corporation is a Japanese spectacle lens and camera manufacturer. Pentax had been using a SCO product called WinFS to interface its finance department's Windows work stations with their point of sale data stored on a HP-UX server. Increasing discomfort with the future supportability of SCO products and the software's poor performance encouraged Pentax to look at alternative solutions.

Pepsi, is a global American beverage and snack company. Besides the Pepsi-Cola brands (including Mountain Dew), the company manufactures Quaker Oats, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, SoBe, and Tropicana. Pepsi were looking to replace Microsoft ISA with a more secure proxy caching system without loosing the ability for their Internet Explorer users to transparently authenticate against their Active Directory domain.

Pindar Set employ nearly 2,500 people across the world and provide pre-press, databasing and automated classified directory pagination services for Yell the publishers of Yellow Pages in the UK and Yellow Book in the US. Sirius Corporation is the technical support provider for Pindar Set's use of the enterprise-class Open Source database, PostgreSQL.

Specsavers Optical Group is one of the fastest growing retailers in the UK with 25% of the high-street opticians market. Sirius Corporation is the technical support provider for Specsaver's use of Red Hat Linux, Samba, OpenLDAP and GOsa.

ESR Technology specialise in providing risk assessment services to the aviation, utilities, space, defence and petrochemical industries. After becoming disillusioned with their "full service" IT supplier, ESR Technolog looked for an alternative solution that would save money, scale with their ambitions for growth and, crucially, enable their management team to take control of their IT strategy moving forward.

Killby & Gayford Group were a £70m per annum construction company based in London looking to make savings in their IT infrastructure. Rapid and substantial growth made them suspectible to punitive licensing charges from Microsoft and Sun.

TLC Marketing is the world's largest sales promotion and incentives agency whose clients include Gillette, Sony Ericsson, HSBC and Vodafone. Their integrated service portfolio includes running hundreds of high-traffic campaign specific websites targeted to provide specific actions amongst defined groups of consumers.

Usborne Books

Usborne Books is one of the world's largest children's publishers. Sirius host and manage the multi-level marketing systems used by Usborne's home division - Usborne Books at Home.

Carmarthenshire County Council is one of the largest and most diverse employers in South West Wales, employing over 9000 employees who provide services across a rural county to a population of 170,000. Staff were under pressure to deploy a centralised, bi-lingual e-mail solution to simplify the provision and management of pupil's mailbox accounts.

The Countryside Council for Wales, a Welsh government agency, wanted to create a star-type VPN between Cisco 837 ADSL Modem/Routers (running IOS 12.4) at satellite offices and a central OpenBSD server. Sirius Corporation was asked to investigate the problem and, if necessary, improve the interoperability of OpenBSD and Cisco's IOS platform. The client stipulated that any development work was to be fed back into OpenBSD project for inclusion in future releases.

Yorkshire & Humber Grid for Learning (YHGfL) is a not for profit company that provides Internet connectivity and ICT services to around 2,400 schools in the Yorkshire and Humber region. YHGfL identified Sirius Corporation as the leading services provider for Open Source systems in the UK and asked us to develop the vision and implementation strategy for internet-based services to all the schools in the region