The low cost office

• Are you looking for a way of lowering your IT costs?
• Are you keen to explore Open Source?
• Are your primary IT requirements productivity based?

Whenever someone starts to mention Open Source, it is often not long before to monetary benefits of Open Source are cited. The free availability of powerful and compelling software has since resulted in a number of organisations and individuals moving to free Open Source equivalents that provide more choice.

In this Seminar, a range of low cost office grade applications will be discussed, witha particular focus on how they can work together to form an end to end solution that is more reliable, secure and cost efficient. This tools include:

• Linux - Operating System
• OpenOffice.org - word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and more
• Mozilla Firefox - web browsing
• Thunderbird - email management
• Evolution - personal information management
• The GIMP - graphics manipulation
• SugarCRM - web based customer relationship management
• Mambo - web based content management
• Wordpress - web based personal publishing
• Many more...

In addition to this seminar, a two-day FastTrack is also available on the 28th and 29th July. This course provides two days of solid training and half a day of focussed consultancy.

For more information contact Julia Hickey on 0121 634 1620 or events@openadvantage.org.