I use Microsoft Windows XP since it's out on the market (2002).
I know all the options you can use under this system and have a very good productivity under it (better than under linux).
This is du to the fact i user Microsoft Windows systems since more than 10 years (2007) now and maybe the linux transition is not necessary now.
I can realize filesystem batchs scripts or specialized batch files.

Open Office is a desktop suite that include the same principals softwares of this concurrent, Microsoft Office Suite.
Using OpenOffice and also using the XML format, lets you create an interactivity between some server side scripts and your documentation base in OpenOffice format. That lets you integrate powerful functionnalities like PDF export etc...
The OpenOffice usage is in the "open source" concept deployement. It seams that "open source" applications like OpenOffice will be the future of the international desktop suite.

Adobe Flash is a software that lets you include quality animations, and high user interactivity in webpages.
The Adobe Flash format can be connected with PHP to upgrade the power of your application and of your Flash Interface.
Some informations have to be mentionned in relation to Adobe Flash. The Adobe Flash format is not compliant to the referers search robots and need to include a special page structure to get the referrers search robots in.
Today with the generalization of the ajax/xmlhttprequest use, it seams that Flash is not necessary anymore due to the fact that Ajax/XMLhttprequest lets you rebuild all Adobe Flash Interfaces concepts.

Nicoweb offer you to study your questions, projects that need Adobe Flash in their deployement to advise you if it's really necessary to use Adobe Flash etc...
You can send us your questions, projects, quotations asks on our our email address.

I discovered Linux when i was in the ITIN school on 2001/2002 with the Mandrake Linux Distribution.
This discover was very instructive and show me the details on the today's server architecture.
/Linux is the best system to configure, developp, make a specialized application that can be very powerful, secure, on-date.
Nicoweb offer you to administrate your server(s) by SSH or by dedied administration interface like CPanel or Webmin.
You can contact us on our email address to get more details on what we can do for you under Linux systems.

Nicoweb take contact with Red Hat in the same time the PhotoComptoir project was in charge for Nicoweb.fr
This PhotoComptoir work let me see the details of the RedHat Linux Architecture and today Nicoweb can offer you to administrate a RedHat under server(s).