Sirius Corporation ltd is a company based in Weybridge

Weybridge

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, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 which provides a range of open source

Open source

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 services to medium and enterprise level organisations to allow them to maximise their productivity

Productivity

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 whilst minimising their risk. Sirius provide network and infrastructure deployment, application development and technical support.

Open Source is a model being utilised by many in place of proprietary software

Proprietary software

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. Wikipedia

Wikipedia

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 is an example of a project based on the philosophy of open source.

Sirius provide a full Enterprise Stack which can include, but is not limited to, products such as Asterisk

Asterisk

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 (VoIP), JBoss

JBoss

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 (application server

Application server

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), Apache

Apache

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 (web server

Web server

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), Squid (proxy), OGo/Scalix (groupware), Sendmail/Cyrus (email), Samba/CUPS (file & print), OpenLDAP (directory server), PostgreSQL (database), PostGIS (geographic information systems) and Linux

Linux

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 (operating system

Operating system

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).

Mark Taylor founded Sirius Corporation in 1998.

Sirius have worked with household brands including Pepsico

PepsiCo

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, BOC, Three, Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson

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, Axa

AXA

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 and Specsavers

Specsavers

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In 2008, Sirius was among 12 software suppliers to have been awarded places on the £80m Software for Educational Institutions Framework (SEIF) agreement and in 2009 .

In 2009, Sirius working in partnership with the North West Learning Grid and were awarded a Highly Commended for their work on the NDRB (National Digital Resource Bank) at the e-Government National Awards.