Of thousands of providers in the market, many have an affinity to a given vendor's equipment and/or software. This often produces the same recommendation to every client. This, in many cases, is not in the client's best interest.

There are many competing technologies available. A technology not having the bulk of market share does not mean it is inferior or "experimental". In fact, many competing technologies may offer added benefits and/or functionality. This does not, of course, mean that we don't have thourough experience with the standard Microsoft products and the major-vendor equipment.

Some general benefits that may be seen include, but are not limited to:

• Increased reliability and/or performance.
• Reduced cost of ownership.
• Increased security (e.g. through reduced attack area).
• Additional features not provided in other products.
• Better compatibility with standards-based systems.

A short (definitely not all-inclusive) list of competing technologies that AbsoluTech provides full implementation and support for:

• All flavors of Linux, UNIX, and FreeBSD.
• Several open-source Firewall/VPN products.
• Large-scale RDP/Application Server Clustering.
• PHP and MySQL-driven applications.