These are all common thoughts that plague every IT decision maker's mind when it comes to deploying Open Source applica¬tions. But what if we were to tell you that these will all be a thing ofthe past? That your team won't be pulling their hair or banging their heads against each other (and the wall) when trying to install and configure Open Source apps? They will no longer be hunting through all those long and dreadful installa¬tion manuals, nor will they be spending sleepless nights configuring them, because we've already gone through all those pains for you.
Believe it or not, PCQ Linux 2008 takes away all those hassles, so that you can pay more attention to the applications and how they can benefit your business instead of worrying about installing and configuring them. We've created virtual appliances for everything, courtesy the Open Source Edi¬tion of Virtual Box virtualization software.

PCQ Linux 2008 this time comes with vir¬tual appliances of an ERP and CRM applica¬tion, a web-based meeting software, a messaging and collaboration platform, a doc¬ument and content management system, and even a directory server to allow single sign¬on for all of them. Plus, there's even a virtual appliance for developers and yet another one for network and security managers. So you won't be spending time installing them, but simply sipping coffee while you waitfor them to get copied and extracted from the DVD onto your machine.

If you're still uncomfortable running all those virtual appliances on Linux, then we have some news for you-these appliances will also work on Windows. Simply download the Windows version of Virtual Box from the Internet, install it on your Windows machine and take the virtual appliances from our DVDs.
In the pages to follow, we've explained how to load the virtual appliances from our two DVDs. If you're not interested in using them, then even the base installation ofPCQ Linux 2008 from the CD will work well as an ordinary Linux desktop. It comes with OpenOffice.org and many other productivity apps. Plus, you can install more on it as you deem fit.

So go ahead, get a taste of different Open Source applications without the burdens of installing and configuring them.