The multimedia department also uses a number of open source tools to facilitate job tracking, knowledge management, and software version control.

"For those apps I chose Linux because the hardware would not be high enough spec to run Windows," Lim said. "Whereas I could run Linux stripped back of any extraneous services and they run comfortably."

"The nice thing about Linux is without much customization you can have single purpose machines dedicated to particular tasks. The previous approach was to have high-spec machines to run multiple applications."

Lim said he inherited a Wiki to host documentation when he first started and so decided to promote its use.

"Last year the newer stable versions of JSPwiki came out with the functionality we needed [and] not having to maintain it in-house is a big time saver," he said.