SOFTWARE SAVINGS Ylem offers significant software savings through the use of open source solutions.  As well as being freely available, open source software provides you with better reliability, stability and security.  Its usage is growing day by day as it gives these major benefits to businesses of every size.  Here are the reasons why open source is so attractive:   -  No up-front capital expenditure (CAPEX) - it's free   -  Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)   -  Improved reliability and stability   -  Better security   -  Superior performance   -  Reduced dependence on software vendors   -  No licensing issues   -  Faster to install   -  Easier to customise   -  Incremental updates are made available rather than massive upgrades In 2008, the leading IT analyst Gartner* predicted "By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms".  *Gartner, The State of Open Source 2008 Who is using open source? Ninety percent of the 500 most powerful computers in use today run open source operating systems because of their robustness and dependability.  The following chart shows the operating systems used by these top 500 computers, taken from the most recent statistics available. Source: www.top500.org