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Credits

The BUZGate™ virtual resource collaborative serves to connect individuals, businesses, nonprofits, governmental agencies, groups and educational institutions to the tools, information and help they need to support their professional success. State-of-the art technologies coupled with best practices and standards are utilized to maximize the value of the user experience.

Free Technology Tools

BUZGate™ utilizes Free Software as the foundation of the virtual community infrastructure. Beginning with the GNU/Linux operating system, user features and functionalities take advantage of the myriad of Free Software tools that are available today. By utilizing a free software development strategy, costs can be appropriately invested in providing the utmost user functionality versus investing in licensing and acquisition fees associated with non-free software programs and operating platforms.

BUZGate's management philosophy is to provide a virtual environment whereby all individuals may work together synergistically to increase the awareness, access and use of the resources they require for their individual and collective well being. Using a free software platform facilitates the ability to achieve these desired outcomes with the lowest up-front costs and the greatest mix of freedom, flexibility, interoperability, standards adherence, upgrade path, and total cost of ownership (TCO) benefits.

LAMP, for the web, and the whole enterprise

The Internet runs on Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP). When building a virtual community, there are tremendous opportunities to leveraging these same technologies. BUZGate™ takes full advantage of this strategy by deploying these technologies both as the platform for supporting the development process in the form of a company-wide knowledge base and Intranet system, as well as throughout the public site. As a result, BUZGate™ is web-enabled from the inside out.

Ensuring Scalability

In a world that changes rapidly -- where focusing on your business and your competitors simultaneously is critical to success, it makes sense to take full advantage of technology standards when designing the foundation of your operational systems. By utilizing Extensible Markup Language (XML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and other technology standards, BUZGate™ systems remain robust and protect against obsolescence. In addition, technology vendors like RedHat, MySQL AB and the Apache Foundation are constantly providing software updates available to everyone, everywhere via the Internet and free of charge.

With commodity hardware and standards-based technologies, BUZGate™ is well positioned to grow in response to users needs. We thank the following organizations for sharing our vision and for their support for free software:

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