The government was also aware that schools needed to be able to invest in software and technical support - factors which were also built into "budgeting ahead".
The commercial off-the-shelf software solution includes a three-year commitment by Microsoft Consulting Services for technical support during the ship's software design, development and deployment.
Dries Buytaert is chief technology officer at Acquia, a commercial open source software company providing products, services and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system.
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Alternatively, you may wish to seek technical support from your media player software vendor (websites are listed above).
Then they began trading information about weaknesses in computer systems and selling software kits to exploit them, complete with technical support and updates.
Yet for many IT teams, potential innovators are restricted by their day-to-day role of providing help desk support, updating software, fixing technical issues and monitoring acceptable use policies.
But even complicated tasks rate only a few dollars. iConclude, a software start-up aiming to automate corporate technical support, is using the Turk to evaluate developers who can help write its repair tools.
The software leviathan stunned a rookery of Linux users yesterday at a conference and expo in Boston with the revelation that it will now provide technical support for the open-source software running on Virtual Server, and would make Virtual Server 2005 R2 available free.
He has a local software partner available at a per hour rate in case he needs any technical support.
At the time, selling software to large companies was sometimes likened to drug dealing, because once a firm installed a piece of software, it had to pay a stream of licence fees for upgrades, security patches and technical support.
The Internet also helps Dell provide better and cheaper technical support with technology that allows buyers to log on to a Web site for instant answers and software fixes (see box, opposite).
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