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!