Public Sector

In February 2009, the UK government published a new policy aimed at promoting the use of open source software in the public sector. The new policy is also aimed at promoting open standards and encouraging the re-use of IT solutions. Measures include an education programme, guidance on procurement from the Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council and assessment of new products.

Carmarthenshire County Council

Carmarthenshire County Council is one of the largest and most diverse employers in South West Wales, employing over 9000 employees who provide services across a rural county to a population of 170,000. Staff were under pressure to deploy a centralised, bi-lingual e-mail solution to simplify the provision and management of pupil's mailbox accounts.

Countryside Council for Wales

The Countryside Council for Wales, a Welsh government agency, wanted to create a star-type VPN between Cisco 837 ADSL Modem/Routers (running IOS 12.4) at satellite offices and a central OpenBSD server. Sirius Corporation was asked to investigate the problem and, if necessary, improve the interoperability of OpenBSD and Cisco's IOS platform. The client stipulated that any development work was to be fed back into OpenBSD project for inclusion in future releases.

National Digital Resource Bank

The National Digital Resource Bank (ndrb) is an online tool that gives UK students and teachers access to free and open digital learning content.

The project is led by the North West Learning Grid, supported by government and has received assistance from Becta. As ndrb's principle technology partner, Sirius provides technical support and application development services to the platform.

Yorkshire and Humberside Grid for Learning

Yorkshire & Humber Grid for Learning (YHGfL) is a not for profit company that provides Internet connectivity and ICT services to around 2,400 schools in the Yorkshire and Humber region. YHGfL identified Sirius Corporation as the leading services provider for Open Source systems in the UK and asked us to develop the vision and implementation strategy for internet-based services to all the schools in the region

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