free web meeting service

A few clicks, and you're off to hosting free webinars using the dimdim service. You can even install the technology on your own server if you wish.

Why pay $100/month for webinars you can host for free?

Microsoft isn't all bad!

While nothing from Microsoft is Open Source, a lot of it is free and performs excellently under demanding conditions found in nearly all but the largest businesses. SQL server, Web servers, Sharepoint Services and Web collaboration are available to run FREE on standard Windows Vista. The core SolutionsByDave website runs on this free platform with a host of other sites. Our in-house reporting modules run on the express edition (that's free) of SQL Server. If you have a decent Pentium 4 class computer with 1 to 2 G of RAM (about $50/Gigabyte if you don't already have it) , you're set to run SQL Server Express Edition giving your business a robust and efficient database technology platform on your current hardware - free...

Ask today about setting up specialized database applications without the cost of new expensive software and hardware.  888-216-1231

FREE Office Productivity Suites

Are you paying $125 -$200 a pop for copies of MS Office, Word, Excel, Powerpoint?

OpenOffice from OpenOffice.org could be the grandaddy of Open source software. It looks, feels and works like MS Office. Give it a spin and you'll never look back at paid word processors and spreadsheets.

OpenOffice.org 2 is the leading open-sourceoffice software suite for word processing,spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databasesand more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in aninternational open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of chargefor any purpose. 

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Mail Servers

Before you buy Microsoft Exchange...

consider the costs:

• Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server - starting around $2,000, usually more
  
• CAL (Client Access Licenses)  - in the neighborhood of $125 each
  
• You will probably need to buy a new server to host all this enterprise software.
  
• Microsoft Outlook for each person using the email system (included in some versions of Office - about $250 per person.
  
• Email Backup: an entire backup schema using an expensive backup program and tape drive is needed
  
• An expert to set this all up for you - $180 per hour. A basic setup will take at least a full workday.
  

Open Source solution: hMail Server

costs: 

• software: free
  
• runs on any windows PC (even an old Pentium3)
  
• protocols: IMAP (This works so well that many large corporations use it instead of Exchange)
  
• Email Backup: All Email can be mirrored to a second drive or computer on your network- free and simple.
  
• An expert to set this all up for you - $100 per hour. It takes about 3 hours or less!