eRacks Open Source Systems was founded in 1999. The company's purpose is to provide computer systems that utilize open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 software, including various flavors of Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, *BSD and OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris created by Sun Microsystems. It was also the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around the software...

, and manufactures rackmount servers (including NAS

Nas

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 systems, firewalls, mail and web servers), desktops, laptops and netbooks.

Business

eRacks has experience providing open source solutions for both the server and personal computing market, and in more recent years, has expanded into the studio market, manufacturing quiet systems for recording in the studio.

eRacks is currently partnered with Canonical Ltd, the company that supports the open source Linux distribution Ubuntu

Ubuntu (operating system)

Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu...

, and has been featured in the VAR guy's Open Source 50.

Work in the Community

eRacks has given back to the community, both by offering an easy means of donating to open source projects and by donating hardware to organizations in need.