• Protects your investment in existing hardware: thin client-capability means that either old PCs can be used or inexpensive thin-client hardware installed. As well as reducing your software investment, thin clients mean the ability to control software and security issues at the server, cutting the time and expense required to support systems and eliminating the possibility of malicious or accidental contamination via PCs.
• Open-Source and standards compliance means that you aren't tied to a specific hardware vendor and that long-term maintainability is assured.
• Because we've already done it for you with Thyme, you don't need to spend time and resource researching the best development tools to use.
• There are no runtime costs with Thyme, because it's open source - you only get involved with runtime costs when you use proprietary software.
• Because Thyme is easy to learn and to use, it speeds up the development cycle all the way from prototyping, through application development to ease of deployment. Your programmers, with the right training, will become productive very quickly indeed.
• You can easily integrate your old business-critical legacy systems with new Thyme-based solutions, and migrate to a full-Thyme implementation through evolution rather than revolution, directing scarce resource to the most important areas of attention.
• There is a large and ever-growing community of open-source programmers - it's what the colleges and universities use - plus anyone skilled with UNIX will find the move to LINUX a doddle. Linux, after all, could be described as "evolved Unix"!
• Because of Thyme's modularity, it is easy to build up a library of code for specific actions and call the sets you want as required.
• You don't need to reinvent the wheel - there are an ever-growing number of websites where people committed to open-source lodge their code for re-use by others in the open-source community.
• There are also organisations such as local Linux User Groups, the Python Business Forum etc. where you can interact with other open-source developers to your mutual benefit. These are a major resource for the open-source community. In the UK we were instrumental in helping set up the PyCon UK Society, to promote Python within the UK; the first event mounted by the Society was the very well received Python UK Conference in September 2007.
  
• And for those who find Open-Source a little hard to swallow at present - after all, it runs counter to decades of what we've been used to in the applications development world - we offer a closed-source version of Thyme. Contact us about this if you are interested; there's still no runtime cost.

We will be happy to talk to you about the implications of using Open-Source tools and how they have benefited us. The open source world includes National Governments as well as businesses of all kinds.

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