The slowdown had shown the path of open source and free software to qUite a few organizations, and Similarly this project was also conceptualized to reduce the cost of IT and strengthen security.

The five member IT team of Sanghi Industries Limited headed by Mukud Gandhi was assigned to migrate the majority of the existing network to open source and Linux. The benefits visualized before commencing this project were saving the windows OS license cost, plus saving on the client level anti virus cost as Linux being is a secure OS doesn't always requires a client level anti virus in place.

The biggest challenges faced while commencing this project was the unacceptance to change from Windows to Linux by the users of the organization due to obvious familiarity issues.

The other technical challenges were to run IPMSGexe which is a Windows based organization wide small messaging solution and some other regular Windows applications.

To make these apps work, extensive use of wine (which is a Windows emulator for Linux) was done. The other problem faced by the organization was to migrate old pst file of Outlook to Linux After testing quite a few Linux mail clients they finally used Thunderbird mail client for importing the pst file to Linux.