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I have expertise in the deployment of free software within organisations - having worked with the education, voluntary and commercial sectors. I can support your organisation through consultancy, technical authoring and training.

Free software now offers a practical way for your organisation to break out of the cycle of hardware and software upgrades. It offers sustainable, long term solutions that will reduce your costs, down-time and training needs. Further, free software guarantees that you will always have control over the most important resource in your organisation - your data.

Richard Rothwell
Stourbridge, UK

Free software will save you money

Over the past decade there has been an endless churn of IT within many organisations. Software and hardware have needed to be upgraded or replaced on a cycle of a few years. Free software solutions offer a way of breaking out of this expensive cycle.

I offer consultancy on-site or remotely, and you will find my rates competitive. Areas of particular expertise include:

OpenOffice.org - the powerful free office suite;
LTSP - using thin-clients to reduce your costs;
Management of Change; and
GNU/Linux Migrations.

Examples of projects I have been involved in are:

Families On-line - providing low cost solutions to socially excluded familes;
Handsworth Grammar School - a school wide LTSP implementation; and
Birmingham Friends of the Earth - a low cost sustainable computing network.
Moseley CDT - designing and installing an LTSP system for their new Exchange.