Businesses Use Older PC's to Boost Productivity & Save Money
Small business owners can reduce their employee time tracking expenses and add a shared calendar, all by turning an otherwise obsolete PC into a time clock appliance.
(PRWEB) April 8, 2004 -- Small business owners can reduce their employee time
tracking expenses and add a shared calendar, all by turning an otherwise
obsolete PC into a time clock appliance.
The service, offered by
software developer Five Sticks (Oak Park, Illinois), is simple. Businesses drop
off or send in their old computer. Five Sticks converts that old PC into
appliance by installing Linux and their free FstxTime software package. The
company then ships the system back to the customer.
Once converted to a
time clock appliance, the computer can be reattached to the business’s existing
computer network. Users then punch in and out using any standard Internet
browser. All updates and software backup are handled automatically, there’s no
limit to the number of system users, and the appliance can even be configured to
be accessible via the public Internet.
All of the software is provided
under standard Open Source licenses, free of charge. The conversion service
costs $199, significantly less than most manual time clocks found at office
supply stores.
“This is how we help customers,” said Reid Carlberg,
president of Five Sticks. “We concentrate on increasing their productivity while
saving them money.”
According to Carlberg, the conversion of an old PC
into a time clock appliance allows customers to take advantage of powerful Open
Source software solutions without having to invest the time learning the
software itself.
“We work with these technologies—Linux, Java,
MySQL—every day,” he said, “So we can get everything working together quickly
and easily. The end user never has to worry about what’s running the computer.
They only have to take advantage of the fact that it works.”
Call
888-627-8888 or visit www.fivesticks.com for more information.
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