LANshark Systems, Inc. was founded in 1990 by Scott Sharkey to serve Fortune 500 enterprise network customers using an advanced network operating system called Banyan VINES. Since 1990, we have been extensively involved in DOS, Windows, and UNIX software development including network administration utilities, SMB servers, electronic mail applications, and UNIX daemons. LANshark developed a custom electronic mail application for Compaq Computers to deploy world-wide with over 10,000 users. We've been using and developing software under Linux since 1994, and providing Linux-based solutions for local Central Ohio customers for some time. In 1999, Linux Unlimited was formed to concentrate on our growing Linux business. Now we are pleased to be able to bring high quality Linux technical support services, consulting, and custom programming based on Linux and Open Source software to Central Ohio.

We believe in Linux

LANshark began working with Banyan VINES because the underlying naming system, StreetTalk, made networks easier to use and manage, and we felt that StreetTalk was a pre-cursor of what networks in the future would be like. Linux, with its open source availability, and its huge crowd of programmers supporting it, has the potential to be used to create networks every bit as easy to use as StreetTalk and VINES, but fully and truly integrated into the operating system, and fully interoperable with other computers using standard internet protocols.

Linux Unlimited has been selling and supporting Linux and Linux-based solutions in the Central Ohio area for several years. We can configure systems for you if you need, or we can work with your existing systems and configure or install Linux and Linux applications to solve your problem. Our technical support staff's broad experience with UNIX-based networks, in some of the world's largest networks, assures that you will get the best technical support available.

We believe that Linux is and will continue to be a significant player in the personal computing market, and that many companies will insist on a network operating system that is truly "free" (in the intellectual property sense and in the monetary sense). And we believe that Linux offers the greatest reliablity and the greatest VALUE even today.