Rebind is a suite of products that enables rapid deployment of Linux throughout your enterprise:
Discovers your hardware estate, enabling you to truly know what already across your organisation.
Builds precisely the deployment image you need for your users.
Enables overnight deployment and upgrades of desktop and edge devices.
These tools provide zero-touch, low bandwidth, schedulable and rapid OS migration abilities for the Enterprise. With HTML5 and Java applications now commonplace, the time has come to consider the replacement of Windows on the desktop with a affordable and manageable alternative: Linux. Not only does it have lower acquisition costs, much lower support costs, but with Rebind it can be deployed onto the PC hardware you have in place already.
Work with your corporate applications and choose from an application catalog of more than 20,000 solutions,
including RDP and Citrix client software, our deployment and management platform is designed to support thousand of desktops.
Rebind allows your teams to run just the systems you want, the way you want them to run: on hardware that is already inplace, with the choice of free or supported versions of Linux - it's up to you. Run Citrix? Tick. Need RDP Support? Tick. With the majority of the next generation of applications being already authored for Linux, you'll be ahead of the game...
The major complaint when it comes to replacing windows with Linux is the compatibility with Microsoft Office. However, compatibility has come a long way and has taken a great leap forward with the release of Office 365. Indeed, with Microsoft's willingness to support other platforms - such as OSX and Android (running Unix and Linux, respectively) - we are confident that in the near future Office will run natively on Linux desktops.
Being based on HTML5, the future of Microsoft Office - 365 "online", runs perfectly on Linux. We estimate 75% of Office users' requirements are satifisfied by this version, so if your business absolutely needs it: Office support is there. Or, if you are seeking alternatives to Office, there is always Libre Office, and Kopano.
Of course, if you have desktop applications written in Microsoft's own .Net platform - you are not forgotten. Microsoft open sourced .Net to facilitate the migration of applications to platforms such as Linux and Mac. This means that the porting is easier than you think - and the effort will result in lower support costs.