| We lawyers have noticed a trend: in the early | | | | organisations large and small. Whether you |
| days, open source software was seen as | | | | are a company producing open source products |
| renegade stuff, unsuitable for mainstream | | | | or whether you are a company using them, it |
| business. Increasingly, however, businesses | | | | is essential that all of the implications of |
| are utilising open source technology for a | | | | using open source are thought through |
| wide range of technology including | | | | strategically, having regard to the short, |
| fundamentals such as the operating software. | | | | medium and long term aspirations of the |
| Red Hat is the most recognised commercial | | | | organisation. For users, the relative |
| open source brand and is seeing significant | | | | cheapness of open source products is clearly |
| growth year on year as open source products | | | | attractive. However, with the wrong provider, |
| take off. Open source products have been | | | | the disadvantages may outweigh the |
| dogged by a reputation for unreliability and | | | | advantages. About Kaltons We provide you with |
| for a dubious audit trail for its | | | | a different approach to achieving your |
| intellectual property rights. This is a | | | | commercial objectives. We work with market |
| lawyer's nightmare when it comes to buying | | | | leaders whose sole focus is to help make |
| and selling companies because of the | | | | those objective real. Our unique blend of |
| difficulty in making sure that a user is not | | | | law, breakthrough business consultancy and |
| unwittingly breaching someone else's rights. | | | | technology expertise gives us the edge in |
| Red Hat has nevertheless managed to carve a | | | | understanding your needs and focusing on |
| significant market for its product in the | | | | solutions. Our understanding of your business |
| face of this reputation and is now taken as a | | | | ensures we meet the needs of your business |
| mainstream provider, used by many | | | | promptly and cogently. |