Tiburon Homes, LLC a leading home builder in Chicago’s affluent suburbs, uses mainly open source applications to keep it’s business running smoothly.  Using a combination of ClamWin Antivirus to protect it’s desktops from viruses and malware, Zimbra to run mission critical email, calendaring and scheduling, and TightVNC to provide remote desktop support, Tiburon has saved thousands hard costs such annual license renewals and in soft costs such as lost productivity due to unreliable proprietary products.

Tiburon Homes, a luxury home builder located in Hinsdale, Illinois has switched to Zimbra to provide it’s office with integrated email, calendaring, document management and project management.  By consolidating these services onto Zimbra, Tiburon realized a cost savings of $500 in the first 6 months.  What’s more, Zimbra has provided field personnel with the ability to sync their Blackberry and iPhones devices over-the-air for a fraction of the cost if they had gone with a proprietary solution like Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes.

Location in Hinsdale, IL, Tiburon Homes is a custom residential home builder. Since opening their doors in 1999, they’ve established a reputation for creating for creating beautifully crafted, practical, architecturally distinctive homes.

Prometheon has helped Tiburon minimize their IT costs efficient operation, by using email, calendaring, web and backup solutions based on such open source applications such Thunderbird, Sunbird, and iFolder. In addition to these basic, yet critical applications, Prometheon has helped Tiburon build an aesthetically beautiful website that is reflective of the beauty in their distinctive homes to help drive customers to their business.