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| Simon & Schuster 9/25/2007 Publisher Simon & Schuster needed to accelerate every aspect of its business, from authoring to getting books into the hands of customers. So, the company ported its mainframe applications to Windows Server® 2003 and the Microsoft® .NET Framework. | | |
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| Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais (SNCF) 8/30/2006 Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais engaged Accenture, a Microsoft Alliance Partner, to develop a server solution—based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition—for improved performance, scalability, and reliability. | | |
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| Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications 2/6/2007 Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications switched its SAP enterprise resource planning software to Microsoft® Windows®-based servers, resulting in improved reliability, batch job completion time, and monitoring of memory and performance limits. | | |
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| South Florida Water Management District 11/3/2006 The South Florida Water Management District, along with the Interagency Modeling Center, tested Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, which helped the IMC boost productivity and decrease run times of its Windows-based modeling software. | | |
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| Speedy Hire 12/13/2007 This rental company reduced TCO when they switched from Linux. | | |
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| SpikeSource 7/19/2007 SpikeSource did not have a Windows-based solution, and that hurt business. | | |
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| St. Leonards College 9/15/2009 St Leonard's College is a private school in Australia. To improve server manageability, decrease deployment times, and avoid the expense of installing more hardware, St Leonard's implemented Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V technology to virtualize its servers. | | |
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| State of Indiana 3/24/2008 For the State of Indiana, there was no reason to train and maintain a staff for Linux. | | |
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| Stockholmshem 7/14/2006 Stockholmshem migrated to servers running the Microsoft Windows Server operating system, preserving its COBOL code, reducing the development burden and need for employee retraining, increasing performance by 1,000 percent, and reducing maintenance costs by 50 percent. | | |
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| STRATO AG 5/16/2008 STRATO wanted to offer its customers powerful IT outsourcing solutions and the professional environment of a high-performance computer center and became the world's first dedicated Web server hosting service to use Windows Server 2008. | | |
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| StreetDirectory 4/9/2008 By benchmarking its existing PHP applications on Windows Server 2008, StreetDirectory has seen a marked improvement with an ability to handle more concurrent users, number of hits, and achieve a performance gain over its existing Linux infrastructure. | | |
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| Sucos del Valle 6/22/2006 Sucos del Valle switched from SUSE Linux version 8.0 to Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004, and upgraded to Microsoft Windows Server 2003, which improved system reliability, eased system administration, and increased decision-making efficiency. | | |
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| Suncor Energy 12/16/2003 Suncor sought to cut UNIX costs and to replace disparate applications with an enterprise-wide environment, so the company migrated to Microsoft Windows Server, reducing hardware, software, and support costs by 42 percent over 6 years. | | |
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| Super A-Mart 4/2/2009 Super A-Mart is Australia's largest discount furniture and bedding chain. Moving from a Linux-backed server environment to one based on Windows Server 2008 allowed the company to build a more reliable and better managed IT environment. | | |
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| Superbuild 6/1/2009 Superbuild developed an online estimation solution for contractors, but it needed a new business model to market the product. By using Microsoft technologies rather than Red Hat Linux, Superbuild greatly reduced the development and maintenance costs of its software-plus-services solution. | | |
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| Swiss Federal Parliament, Berne 2/13/2007 The Swiss Federal Assembly, meeting in the mountain village of Flims while the historic Parliament building was being renovated, used new communications channels, including next-generation content management functionality provided with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, to successfully keep delegates informed. | | |
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| Swiss International Air Lines 6/13/2007 Swiss International Air Lines migrated its e-commerce Web site from Linux technologies to Windows Server 2003, resulting in a 30-percent increase in online revenue, a 300-percent increase in site responsiveness, and a 90-percent decrease in unplanned downtime. | | |
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| System C Healthcare 4/7/2009 System C Healthcare is a healthcare IT solutions provider in the United Kingdom. In 2008, the company upgraded its patient record and administration system using an integrated suite of technologies from Microsoft, thereby reducing its development costs by 50 percent. | | |
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| TDC 11/8/2006 TDC deployed its 6-terabyte data warehouse using Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) database and SQL Server Analysis Services, to gather data from a centralized, authoritative source of information across the organization, greatly reducing the cost of doing complex analysis. | | |
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| Teleflora 7/27/2005 Teleflora company executives chose Microsoft technologies for development and deployment, with early results indicating that the new system and infrastructure offer an intuitive and powerful user interface with efficient support, security, and enhancements. | | |
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| The General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre of Turkey 1/7/2008 When comparing Windows and Linux, the Turkish Land Registry concluded that Windows offers higher performance and a clearer roadmap. | | |
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| The Schwan Food Company 9/11/2006 The Schwan Food Company, with the help of solution provider Cognizant Technology Solutions, eliminated its mainframe in a complete mainframe-to-Windows Server migration that will add more than U.S.$1 million to its bottom line each year and will also boost productivity. | | |
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| The Sumi Motherson Group 4/17/2008 As SMG grew, its Linux-based messaging solution could not keep pace with its changing communications needs. That's when SMG decided to implement Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 instead, taking advantage of improved security, and easier management. | | |
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| The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority UKAEA 2/11/2008 Atomic Energy pioneer in UK switches Novell and VMware for improved security, lower TCO, and higher reliability. | | |
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| Tokyo Institute of Technology 3/10/2009 Tokyo Tech found that there was a lack of configuration tools in the market for the Linux operating system. Deploying Windows allowed them to take advantage of enhanced tools to configure graphics processing units, which are critical to its research. | | |
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| TUEV NORD Group 2/15/2007 TUEV NORD Group uses SAP applications deployed on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to manage its worldwide business, and, when it analyzed the efficiency of its SAP deployment, found that it had 56 percent lower database administration costs than industry average. | | |
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| Tyler Projects 1/8/2009 Instead of continuing to run its PHP application on a Linux-based server, Tyler Projects decided to migrate the game to Windows Server® 2008. Windows Server 2008 consistently processed more than double the requests handled by Linux servers. | | |
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| UNESCO 6/8/2007 UNESCO replaced its UNIX/Oracle-based SAP environment with an infrastructure based on Windows Server 2003 and supported by Microsoft SQL Server 2005, eliminating multiple passwords, creating single sign-on, improving working practices and security, and encouraging innovation. | | |
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| UniCredit Group 5/17/2007 MIB needed flexible and cost-efficient computing capacity for business growth, and used the 64-bit Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 platform to speed up pricing and risk management applications, and to simplify development and cluster management. | | |
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| Unilever 10/26/2006 Unilever, seeking a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than its Oracle\UNIX supply chain infrastructure provided, deployed Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The company expects a 15-percent reduction in TCO, along with the scalability, agility, and reliability its operations require. | | |
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| Union Bank of California 6/27/2008 When the UNIX-based Lotus tools began creating issues with calendaring and email formatting, Union Bank of California migrated to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and saw improved employee productivity, reduced costs, and simplified communications. | | |
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| United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS) 3/1/2008 UMS relied on a patchwork IT landscape consisting of Novell NetWare file servers, SUSE Linux print servers, a UNIX mail system and Windows clients. However, the performance of this solution simply could not keep up with modern IT environments. | | |
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| United Way Services 3/18/2004 United Way Services replaced its existing mainframe accounting system with a flexible, affordable, and easy-to-use Microsoft Dynamics (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions) system, providing fast year-end processing and high-quality service to its customers, along with easy access to information. | | |
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| Universidad Autonoma de Occidente 2/14/2007 The Universidad Autonoma de Occidente, with the help of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Intelecto Soluciones y Tecnologia, replaced a legacy open-source IT infrastructure with a Microsoft-based infrastructure that has cut operational costs by 30 percent. | | |
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| University of Arizona 6/23/2009 By choosing Windows® HPC Server 2008 over a Linux-based platform, the Center for Autonomic Computing at the University of Arizona realized a 26 percent increase in speed and an estimated 20 percent decrease in time spent on systems administration. | | |
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| University of Cincinnati Genome Research Institute 10/12/2006 The University of Cincinnati Genome Research Institute replaced its Linux and UNIX-based high-performance computing (HPC) clusters with Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. All researchers can now use HPC, and the new solution is easy to deploy and maintain. | | |
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| University of Manchester 10/30/2007 The University of Manchester previously used Linux, but those who needed to develop software found the technology difficult to operate. | | |
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| University of Sorocaba (UNISO) 12/18/2006 The University of Sorocaba (UNISO) engaged Techne to address its IT problems, and Techne deployed a solution based on Lyceum, with an IT infrastructure based on the Microsoft server product portfolio, resulting in a 60-percent IT cost reduction for UNISO. | | |
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| University of Washington, Daggett Research Group, Department of Bioengineering 6/9/2008 Without any optimization, Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 outperformed Daggett Research Group's highly optimized Linux cluster and gave them better performance and a simplified rapid deployment. | | |
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| Utusan Group 3/16/2009 The Utusan Group improved the reliability of its messaging services and the productivity of its reporters by switching from a Linux-based email system to Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007, running on Windows Server® 2003. | | |
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