Career and Contracting Positions with Progent Jobs for Talented Network Consultants, Help Desk Service Specialists, CISSP Certified Experts, and Application Programmers
One of the top network consultant firms for small and midsize business systems, Progent maintains a large team of talented service professionals who focus on mainstream technologies including:
Microsoft products
Cisco Integrated Services Routers, switches, firewalls, plus VoIP and VPN solutions
System security analysis
Advanced connectivity architecture
Off-site troubleshooting and system administration
Progent's Experts Group, which contracts independent experts certified and managed by Progent, provides exceptionally refined skills in a broad variety of critical business applications and network technologies that include:
Apple OS networking and programs
Support for Linux-based, UNIX-based, and Sun environments
Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM expertise
Mission-critical and vertical program help
CIO, business analyst, and project logistics outsourcing
Special applications development and deployment
Web, eCommerce, EDI, and customer information portal development and integration
Database support and efficiency help
Business information expertise
Telecom architecture consulting
Creative models for acquiring customers, providing service, maintaining an efficient company culture, and offering generous profit sharing have allowed Progent to become one of the most rapidly expanding and best recognized Microsoft Gold Partners consultant organizations in America and to establish an international organization for providing remote IT service. If you are an accredited computer support professional or information technology consultant with a focus on a client success and strong people skills, consultants will find in Progent an opportunity for enhancing your technical skills, living a more rewarding career, and achieving financial success.
Learn Additional Details Concerning Working at Progent
Check out these links to learn additional details concerning our work openings, business philosophy, operational conditions, compensation model, and benefits:
Consulting Jobs at Progent
Progent is looking for a range of on-staff workers including solutions-driven Microsoft MCSE and MCSA network engineers; connectivity experts who have CCIE credentials; and specialists in fault-tolerant network architecture with experience in mobile connectivity, wireless integration, non-stop systems, disaster recovery planning, data protection, and server virtualization. Progent is also seeking workstation support technicians, off-site service specialists, and CISM certified security consultants. Progent is also looking for veteran managers able to operate efficiently in our high-growth, virtual office environment. Learn more details concerning staff consulting jobs at Progent by going to Full-time Work at Progent.
Freelance Jobs at Progent
Progent contracts independent consultants with in-depth expertise and working experience in high-demand information technology topics outside Progent's main technical focus. Our Experts Group hires independent consultants who offer consulting and development services for line-of-business applications such as Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management; possess specialized knowledge of non-Microsoft platforms such as Linux, Macintosh, or Sun, or can provide expert help in areas such as telecommunications, web development, Electronic Data Interchange, web commerce, or dbm programming. Independent consultants certified by Progent coordinate with our in-house consultants to provide comprehensive IT services for small company networks. To find out additional information concerning contract opportunities with Progent's Experts Consulting Group, refer to Contracting Jobs with Progent.
Ways That We Are Exceptional
Progent has managed to attract the best professional experts by being different. With a powerful mix of entrepreneurial drive, dedication to customer satisfaction, utilization of state-of-the-art technical tools, and a flexible work structure that offers quality-of-life options for Progent's team members, Progent offers a dynamic environment for talented consultants who posses a desire for quickly enhancing their technical skills to create real-world solutions for a range of organizations and network environments. Learn more information about how Progent is unique by visiting Reasons That Progent Is Different.
Progent's Virtual Office Infrastructure
Progent's virtual office environment provides advanced technical tools that allow remote access, wireless connectivity, convenient access to our support databases, and close cooperation with mobile colleagues to allow you to deal with challenging IT problems. Progent's virtual office setting frees you to concentrate on providing IT solutions rather than fighting traffic and helps you nurture lasting customer relationships by enabling you to come up with quick, viable, and cost-effective solutions. To find out more details concerning our virtual office network, visit Progent virtual Office Network.
Compensation Model and Benefit Programs
Our compensation is determined by revenue sharing. The money you earn is wholly tied to the revenue you contribute. You have the option of concentrating on quality of life and electing to work at a more relaxed pace, utilizing Progent's flexible schedule to make time for personal pursuits, or you can use the opportunity to make considerable money by hard work and lots of consulting time. Progent also provides comprehensive family health care coverage plus numerous additional benefits. Learn additional details about Progent's compensation model and benefits by referring to Progent Compensation Model and Benefit Packages.
Consulting at Progent Frequently Asked Questions
For replies to common enquiries concerning becoming a consultant at Progent, visit Working with Progent Q&A.
The following is a description of Progent's present job opportunities:
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Operations Administrator Job
Progent is looking for a motivated individual for the home-office position of Operations Administrator to assist the Director of Operations with the day-to-day management of financial information, currently using QuickBooks, in performing expense and asset management functions for a small, quickly growing company.
Information Technology Recruitment Manager Position
Progent is looking for a senior administrator tasked with hiring consultants to join Progent's group of network support specialists who offer IT outsourcing and computer consulting assistance to clients globally.
Technical Response Center Coordinator Position
Progent is looking for a talented individual for the job of Technical Response Center (TRC) Coordinator working with a creative high tech business in a dynamic environment. The Technical Response Center Coordinator is to be the initial point of contact for incoming Technical Response Center and Main number calls and must project a professional and sympathetic demeanor in the initiation of Urgent Services.
Customer Services Administrative Assistant Job
The Customer Services Administrative Assistant assists the Director of Customer Services in the day-to-day operations of Progent’s Customer Care initiatives, including tasks such as First Service follow up interviews. The Customer Services Administrative Assistant provides a variety of administrative responsibilities for the Director of Customer Services to make sure Progent provides exceptional client care.
Business Development Representative Job
The Business Development Representative is a top level sales manager responsible for selling Progent's wide array of IT outsourcing and support services and acting as the primary client interface. The Business Development Representative is a member of the management team, operating in sync with the President and Directors and Managers to ensure that corporate targets are accomplished and that top notch services are delivered to Progent's customers.
Senior IT Consulting Expert, MCSE Positions
Progent is seeking an experienced, Microsoft-certified support professional to become part of Progent's full-time staff of network professionals. Applicant must have people skills plus technical knowledge and must be solutions driven.
Desktop Support Expert Jobs
Progent is looking for a Desktop Engineer to work with Progent clients to help all workers using workstation and notebook PCs based on MS Windows 2000, Vista, and XP platforms. Work collaboratively with customer's management or IT staff or under the supervision of a Progent Senior Consultant to help the client’s employees.
Senior Remote Support Engineer Positions
Progent is seeking a Senior Remote Support Expert to help a variety of Progent's customers to manage and service computer networks off-site, utilizing advanced technology including MS Windows 2K/2003 and Microsoft's .NET platform.
Senior Online Network Support Expert Jobs in Australia
Progent is looking for a Senior Online Support Engineer in Australia to help a range of Progent's worldwide customers to manage and support IT networks by telephone or online access.
Senior Cisco Consultant Positions
Progent is seeking a Senior Cisco Consultant with Cisco CCIE or CCNP certification to work with Progent's staff of professionals to help customers to plan, install, manage, and repair small business networks that incorporate Cisco products.
Senior Security Engineer Job
Progent is looking for a Certified Security Engineer with CISM or similar security credentials to join Progent's staff of professionals to provide clients a full range of security services such as network security evaluation, penetration testing, security planning, remote monitoring, security modeling, access management solutions consulting, operations security, and business continuity planning.
If you wish to enquire about any opening listed above, please send your background information to jobs@progent.com. Please copy the job codes of the positions of interest.
Additional Facts About Work at Progent
Career Work for Network Engineers, Desktop Service Technicians, Security Consultants, and Remote Help Professionals Progent wants to find staff-level, results-oriented Microsoft accredited consultants with Microsoft MCSE, MCSA, or MCP certification; Cisco accredited network engineers who have Cisco CCIE, CCNP, or CCNA credentials; security professionals who have CISSP, CISM, or CISA or equivalent security certification; and high-end system design consultants with a background in mobile solutions, wireless connectivity, high availability, disaster recovery, information preservation, and server virtualization. Progent also is looking for professionals to join Progent's staff of desktop support technicians and off-site troubleshooting professionals. In addition, We are hiring talented administrators who can operate effectively in our fast-paced, virtual office environment.
By supporting a team of skilled and dedicated professionals, providing world-class client services, and offering a competitive results-based pricing structure, We have been able to expand our client list rapidly while delivering consulting services to numerous companies in Northern California and throughout the U.S.. A sophisticated virtual office environment, a shared knowledge database, and a team strategy for problem resolution have allowed Progent to maintain a talented consulting team and a satisfied customer base.
For a network professional with technical support expertise, joining Progent or helping Progent's clients can expand your skills via cooperation with Progent's staff of mutually supportive, talented consultants. Our commitment to providing network expertise and technical support to small organizations will offer you the opportunity to collaborate intimately with key players and add appreciably to the success of dynamic businesses.
Progent is hiring consultants that have recognized credentials related to their special focus. So, if you are a Microsoft expert, you should have your Microsoft MCSE certificate. In the case of Cisco consultants, have your CCIE or CCNP credential. For network security, you should have earned you Certified Information Systems Security Professional, CISA, CISM, or other top security credentials. Of course, Progent is aware of "paper experts". However, the fact that a credential does not ensure expertise is no excuse for not earning one. If you have mastered your field, then most of these tests should present no challenge. The bottom line is that if you are an expert, then clients expect certifications. We can promote your skills, but you need to have standard credentials for us to work with. In case you stand adamantly opposed to the concept of credentials, we can sympathize with and respect your position, but you are likely not a good fit.
Contract Work for Certified Application Specialists for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Sun Technology For more than two decades, Progent's computer professionals have offered affordable and successful network consulting services for businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the U.S.. A sophisticated virtual office environment, a common technical database, and a team philosophy for problem resolution have helped Progent to retain a strong staff and dramatically expand a satisfied customer base.
The Experts Group is our way to provide customers the services of expert information technology consulting engineers who have advanced skills and work background in important technologies beyond Progent's core concentration in system infrastructure and security. Experts Team consultants are often independent engineers and occasionally "moonlighters" who have been carefully qualified by us to work closely with Progent's in-house consultants to deliver comprehensive, world-class network solutions to small companies. Progent is always expanding the Experts Group to address the special needs of our customer base.
Progent's Experts Team currently offers consulting in these areas:
Apple OS networking and applications
Consulting for Linux-powered, UNIX, and Sun environments
MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM consulting
Mission-critical and vertical application support
CIO, management information analyst, and project management services
Special program development and deployment
Web, eCommerce, EDI, and client information portal development and integration
DBM support and efficiency help
Business information expertise
Telecom architecture consulting
Advantages of being part of Progent's Experts Group include:
By associating with Progent, you can benefit from the momentum of Progent's dramatic expansion and top-notch reputation in the industry. By having a team of talented and dedicated professionals, offering excellent client care, and practicing a strong, ROI-oriented pricing structure, Progent has quadrupled our customer base over the past several years and Progent now provides consulting services to hundreds of businesses in California and throughout the United States.
Progent's experienced marketing staff handles all facets of marketing your skills and areas of expertise into our quickly expanding customer base, so you spend less time finding customers and extra time making money.
We will facilitate relationship building between you and our key team of expert Microsoft and Cisco certified engineers who are the gateway to the decision makers among our customers.
Progent's sales and operations groups will take care of the entire sales and contracting cycle, from lead generation, project approval, customer requirements definition, skills matching, project scoping proposal generation, contract negotiation and execution. Your entire focus stays with delivering high-level consulting expertise.
We will provide you access to Progent's sophisticated virtual office environment, including convenient meeting/work sites in the San Francisco area, plus Internet and telecomm access anywhere in the U.S.
You will have the benefit of Progent's vast knowledge base, best practices procedures, library of template-deliverable documents, and the aggregate experience from one of the country's largest independent groups of experienced consulting engineers.
Progent will pass on special benefits from leading technology companies such as Microsoft and Cisco, including no-cost ordiscounted training classes, on-line connections to special vendor support utilities and technical maintenance resources, and downloadable in-house use software for education and/or sales purposes.
You will have the security of backup coverage from Progent's staff consultants and other Expert Team members in the event you are unavailable to respond to client demands due to work schedule conflicts, vacation, sickness, or training.
As a 1099 subcontractor to Progent, you get simplified, risk-free invoicing and consistent payment schedules. In addition, Progent is responsible for receivables collection
There is not any cost to be part of our Experts Group, but Progent has the following qualifications for membership:
You should have a proven track record as a consulting professional working on your own in your area of expertise, including a minimum two year record of successful contracting jobs and/or have your own active client base for which you currently deliver ongoing consulting activity.
You must demonstrate that you are an expert in your area of concentration, which includes having a long work-related history and excellent references, and possess up-to-date manufacturer and/or industry professional qualifications.
You have to be able to present yourself in a professional manner and be self motivated and assured in your abilities. You need to have excellent inter-personal skills and understand how to work effectively by yourself or as part of a group.
You need to know how to communicate proper goals to customers and other Progent consultants and you must be able scope out jobs, produce project plans, and define reasonable work schedules.
Improve Your Skills with the Best Technology and Joining a Great Team of Computer Engineers Progent's productive atmosphere will make you a better consulting professional by improving your information technology skills and boosting the loyalty of your customers. Progent makes good on this promise by attracting the top professional talent for you to work with, offering an advanced system infrastructure, using specialized software tools to deliver the highest level of support, and by streamlining proven business models for finding and maintaining customers.
The most important factor that differentiates us from typical network support firms is the excellence of our consulting team. Among the scores of consulting experts who have teamed with Progent, we have assembled the best expertise across a broad array of technologies. Be it Microsoft servers, Cisco switches, corporate security, Apple, Linux, server virtualization, or other key technologies, we engage experts who can help you to be successful on major jobs by leveraging the aggregate skills of our group of experts.
To promote the productivity of our team, we invest heavily in making available the best technology to do the job properly. Progent will leverage information technology to an impressive degree and our state-of-the-art virtual office environment allows effortless connectivity, collaboration, and knowledge exchange with fellow Progent team members — entirely from at-home or on-the-road offices. Consultants don’t throw away time or forfeit revenue because of regular commutes to a physical office, and all travel you do for in-person customer jobs is based on your own schedule, not Progent's. The best part is that most of our consulting work can be performed remotely, representing 100% productivity for income-producing time. In fact, some of our staff do off-site support only.
Progent's business structure is set up for responding rapidly and effectively to customer needs through knowledge exchange and collaborative problem solving. Although Progent's engineers work with a great deal of independence, dispatching is centralized, customer issues and solutions are carefully tracked, documented, and organized for convenient reference, up-to-date engineer schedules are broadcast to streamline group projects and enable trouble escalation, and client approval is always monitored. We strengthen the feeling of cooperation through periodic team conferences and quarterly corporate events.
The majority of Progent's consultants are situated across Northern California, but Progent is attracting a quickly growing team of consulting experts throughout America. Progent's virtual office infrastructure eliminates geographic obstacles that restrict the productivity of traditional company models. We complete the package by offering a full benefit plan to ensure the physical health and financial security of our team members and their families.
Just as we have world-class consultants, Progent's sales and administration teams live up to the high standards that defines Progent. These top-notch contributors to our success are enabling us to identify and land the scores of new customers we are now engaging each month. We lately celebrated the providing of support to our 1,000th customer. Just type “Cisco consultants” or “Microsoft consultants” into Google to see for yourself why we are also a strong marketing operation.
Having a commitment to technical excellence is a key for growth with us. A job in consulting will drive you to enhance your skills more than is possible in any other position in information technology. Being exposed to a continual series of network challenges is what makes professional support interesting. Customers choose consultants to do the toughest jobs. Creative projects, advanced deployments, vexing or chronic problems, and tricky upgrades are the foundation for what we do every day. At Progent, you will not stagnate or be narrowly defined, as is all too typical for computer professionals in ordinary corporate jobs. You will wake up every morning excited about the opportunities ahead.
On the way, you will meet some great folks, both by establishing strong customer contacts and by operating closely with other Progent team members, where you will benefit from and add to their success. Yes, technology is important, but we are a relationship-oriented organization heart and soul. If you don’t offer excellent people skills or enjoy working with a varied group of people, then we are probably not a good fit.
If all this sounds good to you, we urge you to contact Progent about our vision of the new paradigm of network consulting.
Get Lifestyle Improvements and Professional Prowess with Our Sophisticated Virtual Office Environment Progent is convinced that a well architected and implemented network can be a pivotal piece for enabling a company's growth, and Progent applies this belief in our corporate network infrastructure. Progent has created a fault-tolerant virtual office infrastructure that allows Progent's in-house engineers and authorized contractors to offer fast and effective support, cooperate closely on sophisticated jobs, and experience professional and private maturity from acting as part of an exciting business culture of personal drive and freedom.
Progent's certified security staff can show you how to protect your Mac network through professional services such as running security tests, clean up after virus and worm attacks, configuring firewalls, implementing safe off-site and mobile connectivity, installing automated programs for protection against viruses, spam, and directory harvest attacks, and developing a company-wide security plan adapted for the particular objectives of your corporate information system.
Progent can supply small businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area and major cities nationally with an Excel specialist who can show you how to create powerful Excel applications or offer individual training in the newest features of Microsoft Excel 2007. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified engineers can help your business plan and manage a secure, robust network and communications infrastructure to run your Microsoft Excel solutions.
MS Live Communications Server delivers Instant Messaging and presence as part of a scalable, world-class solution featuring enhanced security, seamless integration with additional Microsoft software, an expandable, industry-standard development platform, and support for regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, SOX, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Your organization can benefit from lower costs and improved operational efficiencies, enhanced worker productivity, and stronger IP security with this easy-to-administer, fault-tolerant IM platform. Effective implementations of Live Communications Server call for careful planning and thought before installation. Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals can deliver the expertise necessary to deliver all the benefits of LCS throughout your entire corporation.
Progent offers small and mid-size organizations professional consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPSec VPN solutions from leading firewall and VPN security companies including WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to create a detailed security plan and choose appropriate technologies from a variety of vendors to achieve your security objectives while staying within your spending restraints.
Progent is seeking a range of on-staff workers including solutions-driven Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers; network experts with Cisco CCNP or CCIE certification; and consultants for advanced network design with experience in mobile connectivity, wireless integration, high-availability environments, business continuity solutions, data preservation, and server virtualization. We are also hiring workstation support technicians, off-site troubleshooting professionals, and CISSP or CISA accredited security professionals. Progent is also looking for veteran managers and administrators who can perform efficiently in Progent's dynamic, virtual office environment. Progent contracts freelance professionals who have specialized expertise and field background in important information technology areas outside our main service concentration. Our Experts Group includes contractors who can provide consulting and development support for line-of-business solutions such as Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management; have specialized knowledge of non-Microsoft platforms such as Linux derivatives, Apple OS, or Solaris, or offer expert help in areas such as telecommunications, web development, Electronic Data Interchange, eCommerce, or dbm programming. Freelance contractors qualified by us cooperate with our staff consultants to provide comprehensive solutions for small and midsize company networks.
Progent practices information transfer from Progent's support experts to customers. By educating customers to resolve problems that are within their scope, Progent is able to concentrate on offering hard-to-find skills where Progent has few competitors. Mid-size businesses who utilize trusted independent service providers or who maintain in-house support personnel benefit when Progent passes on information about critical technology and proven processes to make their networks more robust, secure, and productive.
Progent’s Microsoft qualified consultants provide small and midsize businesses experienced support services for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM 2005) and Microsoft Operations Manager 2000. MOM 2005 delivers open and expandable enterprise-class system management by providing comprehensive event management, proactive monitoring and alerts, recording and tendency profiling, and system and program-specific heuristics and tasks to improve the control of Windows Server System environments. Through internal application profiles, Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 allows you to isolate your IT reliability issues before they become disasters, improve the efficiency of your network operations through actionable best practices, and support your network operations and senior administrative staff through sharing critical service level and performance information. Progent’s MOM consulting experts have broad field-proven familiarity with MOM 2000 and MOM 2005 and can help your business install and configure MOM in order to optimize the availability and productivity of your information network.
Exchange Servers and Apple Mac computers can work together efficiently. Progent's Apple and Microsoft certified experts can help you set up Microsoft Entourage and Microsoft Exchange Server so your Mac users can collaborate with teammates who run Outlook. With Microsoft Exchange and Entourage for Mac, Exchange and Apple Macintosh systems can collaborate, enabling Mac users to receive and send messages, search the Exchange global address list, import addresses, synchronize calendars, and alert fellow workers to conferences with your Exchange account. Progent will verify that your Exchange Server is appropriately configured and that WebDAV and Outlook Web Access are enabled. Progent also can provide customized onsite Entourage training.
Cisco's Unified Wireless Network infrastructure offers affordable wireless solutions for business-critical mobility. Cisco's solution supports the identical degree of security, flexibility, and manageability for untethered networks that organizations expect in their wired infrastructure. This includes integrated world-class protection that identifies, prevents, and adapts in response to familiar and new security threats. This includes unified mobility services like voice support, location services, visitor access, and advanced protection. Cisco products have the flexibility and expandability to handle the requirements of IT systems of any size, from small companies to large-scale enterprises, for wireless campus environments or branch offices. Cisco's Unified Wireless Network architecture enables organizations to take advantage of the wireless environment to improve operations and increase efficiency through mobility. Cisco's wireless solutions reduce across-the-board IT expenses and simplifies LAN implementation, operations, and management. Wireless products that Progent provides expertise for include Cisco's Aironet 1230AG Series access points, Cisco Aironet 1500 outdoor mesh access points, Cisco 1400 bridges, the Cisco WLCM Integrated Services Routers, and the Cisco 4400 Series Wireless LAN Controller.
Key features of Microsoft Great Plains accounting include a modular structure that lets you buy only the functionality you require, a standardized foundation based on Microsoft technologies to protect your investment and provide a tightly interconnected environment, advanced reporting capabilities that allow you to track all activities, revenues and expenses and sales patterns, compatibility with Microsoft Office to speed access to business data, the ability to integrate information from virtually any database or desktop software into Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains, and an open architecture that makes it possible to create specialized programs. Progent can help you set up and support a reliable, protected server and communications infrastructure to support Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains, and can offer expert Great Plains consultants to show you how to convert the powerful features of Great Plains accounting into a productive business solution.
Progent can supply small businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area and select cities across the U.S. with an expert with knowledge of the latest features of MS Word. An engineer from Progent's Experts Team can help you integrate Microsoft Word's productivity enhancing components into the operations of your organization, assist with creating templates and developing convenient macros, or offer on-site education to keep your company current on MS Word 2007 and 2003. Progent's staff consultants can help your organization integrate and manage a protected, high-availability network and communications foundation to support your MS Word applications.
Progent's Apple Mac support consultants can assist you with a wide array of system infrastructure issues including system architecture, remote and mobile access, internetwork compatibility, protection, and emerging technologies such as VoIP and high-speed wireless connectivity. For business networks based exclusively on Mac OS X or for systems that use a combination of Mac, Linux and Windows based servers and workstations, Progent has the experience and depth to deal with the complexity of planning, configuring, and supporting a system infrastructure that is reliable, safe, efficient and aligned with your corporate goals. Progent can help you deploy Apple’s Xserve enterprise servers, Apple's Xserve RAID fault-tolerant storage products, and Xsan SAN systems. Progent can also give you access to certified experts to help you with Cisco routers and switches.
Progent delivered a wireless integration environment that allowed a school to improve efficiency and avoid the recurring expense of a dedicated wireline connection. Progent proposed a Proxim Tsunami wireless 60Mbps bridge. The low-cost building-to-building Proxim bridge is designed for interfacing separate locations up to 2.5 miles apart and can reach even longer distances. This wireless solution provided improved bandwidth and reliability than simply amplifying the 802.11b wireless network, and since it utilizes the 5.8Ghz spectrum it offered protection against outside interference.
Progent's Solaris platform consulting experts offer small and mid-size businesses and software developers support for administering and supporting Solaris systems that coexist with Microsoft-based networks. Progent can give your business contact with Solaris consultants, support professionals qualified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISM and CISA credentials. This wide array of experience offers you an easy one-stop consulting firm to help you build and maintain a protected and robust mixed-platform connectivity and communications environment that supports Solaris and Microsoft interoperability by combining Windows with popular versions of UNIX including Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX Open UNIX, HP-UX, BSD, SCO, and Silicon Graphics IRIX (SGI/IRIX or leading Linux platforms such as RedHat Linux, SUSE, Mandrake, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.