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Background

Jim works with a variety of industries in both “for profit” and “not for profit” sectors.  He has a passion to help companies and individuals reach new levels of success.

Contact Jim to make a positive difference in your life, in your company and in overcoming these everyday obstacles!

 Fresh Ideas

To break existing paradigms you need insight that is not weighed down by past successes or failures.  Are you satisfied with your?

• new product ideas?
• new innovations?
• current processes and procedures?
• focus of the company?
• ability to inspire staff?

Talk to Jim - he'll help you come up with new approaches and more importantly, he'll help your team come up with new approaches.

Open Source Software

New: Visit Jim's Blog (Thor's Hammer)for practical business and economic observations.

Have you considered a different alternative to mainline software?

Many organizations have not investigated the possibility of using open source software for their information needs. One Open Source software definition follows: (its' source is: http://www.answers.com/topic/open-source)

The Open Source Definition is used by the Open Source Initiative to determine whether a software license can be considered open source. The definition was based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines, written and adapted primarily by Bruce Perens. Perens did not base his writing on the "four freedoms" of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation, which were only widely available later.

Perens' principles

Under Perens' definition, open source describes a broad general type of software license that makes source code available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent copyright restrictions. The principles, as stated, say absolutely nothing about trademark or patent use and require absolutely no cooperation to ensure that any common audit or release regime applies to any derived works. It is an explicit “feature” of open source that it may put no restrictions on the use or distribution by any organization or user. It forbids this, in principle, to guarantee continued access to derived works even by the major original contributors.

I recommend that you check out the following:

• Openoffice.org - a complete office suite program
• Mozilla Firefox - a very good internet browser.
• A very good compilation of open source software - Open Source God

During this recession, many companies continue to invest in software that requires annual licenses.  The open source products do not require such license fees.  Obviously a change and a shift in policy can create a nightmare for a corporate IT department.  During these times, however, management needs to know every single opportunity to save money.

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