mommalina
11-10-2007, 12:28 PM
Small businesses find software can ease pain of upgrades
BY ROBERT S. ANTHONY
Monday, November 5th 2007, 4:00 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2007/11/05/2007-11-05_small_businesses_find_software_can_ease_.html
Software maker Laplink claims to have the answer, with software that can lower the cost of upgrading to a new PC to about $55, according to CEO Thomas Koll. The company's PCmover version 3.0 transfers files like documents, spreadsheets and e-mail, and moves and reinstalls the applications that created them, such as Microsoft's Office suite.
Laplink has a believer in Lawrence Adjah, an architect at WAAI Design on W. 36th St. in Manhattan. Adjah was looking for an easy way to move his company's data to more powerful PCs with dual-core processors from its 3-year-old units.
"We tend to need much more processing power," said Adjah, who uses Autodesk's AutoCAD, a $4,000 computer-aided design package that can be used to design anything from toys to skyscrapers.
"We're a small business, so we don't have any full-time IT [staff] here," Adjah said. "Being a small company, we all chip in and we do what we have to do."Like the company's old PCs, the new ones came with Microsoft's Windows XP operating system software, which has a utility that lets users transfer data between PCs. However, Adjah noted, it only transfers user settings, not the applications.
After some hunting, Adjah said he bought a single copy of PCmover, tried it and liked it. Once the PCs were linked to the office network and PCmover was loaded on each PC, the machines "found each other" and the rest of the file-transfer process was easy, he said.
"Just do it and walk away for a half-hour to two hours," Adjah marveled.
Adjah said PCmover successfully transferred and reinstalled 18 of 20 applications, including Microsoft Office, but couldn't handle AutoCAD and one other program, both of which had to be reinstalled separately. But reinstalling two applications per PC was far better than 20, he said.
Pricing for PCmover ranges from $49.95 for a copy downloaded from Laplink's Web site to $59.95 for a boxed copy, including data-transfer cable, to $350 for a license for 10-users.
Lina
BY ROBERT S. ANTHONY
Monday, November 5th 2007, 4:00 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2007/11/05/2007-11-05_small_businesses_find_software_can_ease_.html
Software maker Laplink claims to have the answer, with software that can lower the cost of upgrading to a new PC to about $55, according to CEO Thomas Koll. The company's PCmover version 3.0 transfers files like documents, spreadsheets and e-mail, and moves and reinstalls the applications that created them, such as Microsoft's Office suite.
Laplink has a believer in Lawrence Adjah, an architect at WAAI Design on W. 36th St. in Manhattan. Adjah was looking for an easy way to move his company's data to more powerful PCs with dual-core processors from its 3-year-old units.
"We tend to need much more processing power," said Adjah, who uses Autodesk's AutoCAD, a $4,000 computer-aided design package that can be used to design anything from toys to skyscrapers.
"We're a small business, so we don't have any full-time IT [staff] here," Adjah said. "Being a small company, we all chip in and we do what we have to do."Like the company's old PCs, the new ones came with Microsoft's Windows XP operating system software, which has a utility that lets users transfer data between PCs. However, Adjah noted, it only transfers user settings, not the applications.
After some hunting, Adjah said he bought a single copy of PCmover, tried it and liked it. Once the PCs were linked to the office network and PCmover was loaded on each PC, the machines "found each other" and the rest of the file-transfer process was easy, he said.
"Just do it and walk away for a half-hour to two hours," Adjah marveled.
Adjah said PCmover successfully transferred and reinstalled 18 of 20 applications, including Microsoft Office, but couldn't handle AutoCAD and one other program, both of which had to be reinstalled separately. But reinstalling two applications per PC was far better than 20, he said.
Pricing for PCmover ranges from $49.95 for a copy downloaded from Laplink's Web site to $59.95 for a boxed copy, including data-transfer cable, to $350 for a license for 10-users.
Lina