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Free Software Magazine: Small Businesses are Ripe for Free Software

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 25, 2007

“Once upon a time, in a career far, far away, I worked for a
very small business. I was tasked with upgrading the OLD PC’s. The
budget was so miniscule that literally every penny counted. In the
effort to get the best bang for the buck, I stumbled across these
programs called free software. “Whoo-hoo, they’re free” I thought.
Little knowing how that introduction to free software applications
would change my life, I quickly ordered the PC’s without MS Office,
downloaded OpenOffice.org instead and saved a few hundred dollars
per system.

“Fast forward to the future. With much more free software under
my belt, I am even more convinced small businesses are a ripe field
for free software applications…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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