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Is your business’s software all legit? Think about it, maybe installed a copy of Office 2000 on a few extra machines?
While its understandable small businesses sometimes find skirting the rules to be more palatable than forking over thousands for more software, the true costs of piracy can be far greater.
The Business Software Alliance has been cracking down more on small businesses, particularly those in the 10-100 employee range. And the penalties can be quite stiff - six figure penalties plus having to buy the software at full price.
Software licensing is one of the great reasons to look at open source or managed systems with clearer, more reasonable pricing models. Rather than spending tens of thousands on Exchange and Office; alternatives like NitixBlue, Zimbra, OpenOffice, etc reduce TCO and reduce or eliminate licensing concerns.
The Author: Kevin Selkowitz
About: Kevin Selkowitz is the founder and lead consultant for Selkowitz Technology, a Seattle-area small business systems consulting company. We focus on the four major technology needs of small businesses - phone systems, phone and internet service, servers/network infrastructure, and business applications.
This entry was posted by Kevin Selkowitz, on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 at 12:05 am and is filed under Servers and Networking. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response on the right, or trackback from your own site.
