May 12th 2007
Bigger, Faster, Cheaper: Open Source in the Small Business
Written by: Jerry Gartner in Free Software / Open Source »
I’d been speaking with a colleague that happened to be boxed in to the realm of proprietary solutions, as far as the products and services that he sold. His experience had been with installations of small business servers with the latest patches installed. We were talking about all of the really cool and useful things that you can do with Microsoft products. What we really wanted to know was the answer to these questions: “What can you do with Open Source that you can’t do with proprietary solutions?” and “What can you do with proprietary solutions that can’t be done with open source?”
Gartner Web Development fully supports the latest and greatest Microsoft Products. In fact, as a registered MS partner, we have access to a large volume of software including Servers (Small Business Server 2003, MSSQL Server, Web Servers, etc.) and workstations (XP Professional, Vista, etc.). We use Microsoft in house for 90% of our day to day operations with around $500.00 - $600.00 in operating system and office suite applications for marketing, email management, etc. per desktop. Continue Reading »
