MS North Limited required an office server that would allow Macintosh and Windows computers to share the same files and act a centralised backup point. In addition, a firewall was needed to screen all users from the Internet.

As the Macintosh computers are essential to MS North's main business, The Penguin Factory deployed a Linux based solution simultaneously running both Appletalk and Windows file sharing software. This allowed them, for the first time, to be able to easily exchange documents between the heterogeneous systems.

Since the initial installation, the main server has been supplemented with addition group faxing, company email facilites and group calendaring.