More than saving on hardware purchases, companies like relieving their tech staffs of maintenance chores.

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All the back-end hardware and maintenance is taken care of by tech consultant Affordable Business Solutions.

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But RightNow's Sortzi argues big tech services companies also appreciate RightNow's low-maintenance model.

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Tech support personnel might have to go desk to desk to do fixes, or perform maintenance on e-mail servers that have become clogged with virus-generated messages.

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Solar thermal power is low tech, extremely low cost to manufacture, install and use, and requires very little to no maintenance at all.

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Then one of the entrepreneurs who had worked in a quite high-tech garage remembered a technology for measuring exactly how much fluid got dispensed, and where, in car maintenance.

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