Saving money on software

We often get asked for money saving IT ideas. In particular software costs and installing them and how to get around those costs.

For instance, we charge £65 per user per month for a fully supported, software loaded, secure and backed up, hosted PC, with legal, fully licensed Microsoft applications.

If we were asked how much a copy of the software would be, without an actual license, we would approximate it would cost an extra £10,000 and up to 10 years in prison. Its a risk we won't take, and as IT 'experts', we advise you not to take that risk either!

My email has gone down, what shall I do?

Firstly, be still and breathe. I am now thinking of positioning our company as a ‘technology therapist’. This means I need to employ more women, otherwise the mandarin collared shirt and slim line ¾ length trousers (in neutral tones) I was going to make the team wear will just look ridiculous. According to America we all need therapy, and the more I delve into the technological world, the more depressed I become. It is a cold world of wires, binary, functions and code, bandied about by smug alchemists, masquerading as web designers, developers, IT consultants and SEO agencies. All with dark IT secrets to hide, feeding the world technology habit and charging vast amounts of money to do so.

They call us end-users…does this mean we will go through withdrawal? It seems so, if my email connection goes down then so do I, financially and spiritually. If the internet isn’t working the important drumming of key boards cease, and is replaced by the gentle whimpering of a work force whose only other option is to use the phone and drink coffee. Our dependency is total. Hi, my name is Byron and I’m an IT user.

So if your email goes down, don't worry, we shall fix it, and whilst we do you can enjoy a bit of human interaction.

But as I depend upon the technological beast for my supper, keep on using…and as I become your friendly IT pusher, we will continue to try and calm the rage, stop the tension and lift your IT soul, till your next fix.

Connecting to the internet is a legal right in Finland.

Would you Adam and Eve it, along with an education and clean air to breath, the internet is now a legal right...first Finland then the world, hopefully, take a read....http://thenextweb.com/eu/2010/07/01/today-finland-officially-becomes-first-nation-to-make-broadband-a-legal-right/

Open source - more free stuff

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