Customer Case Studies

After migrating from its existing hosting environment based on Linux to the Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 3.5, du increased its SME customer base 20 percent.

With the existing IBM UNIX infrastructure, employees at Dubai Islamic Bank lacked the remote tools to send and receive e-mails on the move. They implemented Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007, ensuring access to messages securely online or through mobile devices.

Earth Class Mail's LAMP solution couldn't keep up with the growth of the company. After adopting a solution based on Microsoft® software, Earth Class Mail cut time-to-market in half, saving U.S. $750,000 on development costs.

Engro, the second largest producer of fertilizer in Pakistan, reduced time spent on server management and restoration by replacing its Linux Server with Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.

Envirosolve switched from Ret Hat Linux to the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system, resulting in reduced reliance on consultants, enhanced security and reliability, improved user productivity, and, in turn, lower TCO for the network infrastructure and improved cash flow.

After testing alternatives such as MySQL, EuroWin chooses Microsoft® SQL Server™ due to its outstanding scalability and better technical support.

Initially, Family Dollar's development team considered using the Java™ version of the SAP GM application on devices running the SUSE Linux™ operating system, but a final assessment indicated that it would not meet the requirements set out by Family Dollar.

Fasthosts' strategy is to automate all aspects of its business and to pass these savings on to customers, so it chose Windows Server 2003, ensuring that the entire dedicated server transaction is delivered quickly, with minimum intervention from employees.

First American Title Insurance Company needed an enterprise-grade solution to support its mission-critical software technology application and its 8-terabyte database. Upgrading to SQL Server 2005 gave First American the technology it needed to more efficiently perform re-indexing. The company also found that upgrading provided the enterprise-grade performance it required to manage its multi-terabyte relational data stores.

Scandinavian home entertainment distributor GDC A/S cut platform licensing and maintenance costs by $180,000 per year by switching from an IBM mainframe to Windows Server® 2003.

Glidepath's existing Linux network operating system was unable to meet the performance needs and was costly to support. Glidepath selected Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and immediately experienced significant savings in support costs with no file server down time.

Glukoza Production is a Russian computer-animation company. After testing Red Hat Linux and UNIX environments, Glukoza chose a Windows®–high-performance computing solution instead, resulting in faster rendering and decreased support costs.

GoDaddy.com needed the scalability and reliability to provide 99.9-percent uptime, and the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system met these requirements. The Microsoft .NET Framework provided a better environment than Linux, making it easier to build quality products.

Grafton Gourmet had a Linux server that was difficult to administer. In addition, the network structure did not fit the company's business needs.

With Microsoft software, Health InfoSTAT developed all solution components using the same tool set and programming framework, which reduced the effort required and helped ensure that the desktop and server components would work together.

The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart expects more business after installing Windows Server® 2003 and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.

Microsoft performed an in-depth TCO study at Hostbasket, revealing that the TCO of Windows-based shared services can be as much as 55 percent lower than the TCO of analogous services offered on Fedora Core.

After evaluating Ruby on Rails, Howard Baines implemented the Microsoft .NET Framework instead. As a result, it brought the solution to market within three weeks and reduced error reports to only two in the first month of releasing the application.

It had been becoming increasingly difficult to find experienced Novell administrators. Today, Microsoft is much better covered in terms of know-how.

IDV Solutions switched from using Linux and Java technologies to using Microsoft technologies, and the company joined the Microsoft Partner Program, resulting in a 100-percent increase in revenue each year.