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Enterprise Overview
Industry: Consumer Optics
Size: Large, 1700
Revenue: £570m (2005)
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Quote
"Samba on Linux provided the most seamless, stable and cost effective solution."
David Weatherall, IT Manager
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What is Pentax?
www.pentax.com
Pentax Corporation is one of the world's best known spectacle, lens and camera manufacturers.
Business Situation
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.
The Solution
Pentax chose Samba to act as the primary interface between the Windows workstations and UNIX backend. Samba was also capable of bringing these machines into their Active Directory domain.
Sirius Corporation provided the technical expertise to undertake the deployment and continue to provide commercial support for the system.
The Benefits
- Zero licensing costs
- Set it and forget it configuration
- Works within an Active Directory domain
Technologies
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