I have to admit I was alarmed this morning reading Michael Arrington’s post, What The Hell Happened To The Free Version of Google Apps? Business Ready is a major supporter of Google Apps for small businesses (the standard edition) as it is a fantastic tool which allows you to easily communicate and work together online.  [...]

How many times have you downloaded the free trial copy of MS Project so that you could rip out a quick project plan for your upcoming release? Hah! I thought so. None of us ‘little guys’ can afford the cash outlay, then we can’t share the MS Project with others (we print [...]

It seems a lot of my clients who are Microsoft Gold Certified ISV Partners got, and immediately embraced, Microsoft Office 2007 when it came out. However those of us who still have to pay list price weren’t that anxious to immediately go out and buy the product. As a result, file sharing became a [...]

Recently I was asked about Organizational Chart (org-chart) software. One of the requirements of an audit is to provide the auditors with an updated org-chart as of the last day of the fiscal year. When you are small you can use the org-chart software that comes with Microsoft Office (or really a piece of paper, [...]