Check out Techsoup.org (usa) not sure about overseas versions)
In the not for profits I work with cash flow is the key. They work on
an annual budget basis so it's 'can we afford it, did we get a grant for
it' concept.
They may not have the cash next month or next year. So you buy things
when you have the grant money for it.
Susan Bradley
Meet up with me, Amy, Philip and Jeremy at the Brain Explosion in Florida this
September. I'll be talking about protecting your network
http://www.thirdtier.net/brain-explosion/
On 7/22/2014 5:54 PM, J- P wrote:
at one of the sites we already have servers in place, so to spin up a
new VM, install the accounting app, lock it down, literally took
minutes (an hour tops)
no additional licensing was required as it is a datacenter server.
I'm no finance guru, but if the director runs the numbers and says
it's better on-premise (who am I to argue Emoji )
Jean-Paul Natola
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] I'm sure you've heard already...
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 00:45:56 +0000
>
> I wasn't aware that buying your own hardware and hosting in-house
was free either. If you buy hardware, then you need to incur a
depreciation charge every month - same monthly cost.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2014 10:06 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] I'm sure you've heard already...
>
> And pay every month for the virtual machine.
>
> Remember not for profits get dirt cheap software. I'm not aware that
they get dirt cheap Azure virtual machines.
>
> Susan Bradley
> Meet up with me, Amy, Philip and Jeremy at the Brain Explosion in
Florida this September. I'll be talking about protecting your network
http://www.thirdtier.net/brain-explosion/
>
> On 7/22/2014 4:57 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > That's becoming less of an issue. You can now create your own local
> > server and app images and upload them to Azure to run in a VM of your
> > creation. Eliminates the compatibility issues.
> >
> > Sent from my Surface Pro 3
> >
> > *From:* J- P <mailto:[email protected]>
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 22, 2014 6:49 PM
> > *To:* '[email protected]'
> > <mailto:[email protected]>
> >
> > At one non-profit I work for , when upgrading/updating to latest
> > accounting application version , the salesperson himself said
> >
> > "based on the amount of modules you use, you would be wise to host in
> > on premise"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Jean-Paul Natola
> >
> >
> >
> > > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:23:53 -0700
> > > From: [email protected]
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] I'm sure you've heard already...
> > >
> > > I still have a fair bit of line of business apps that aren't in the
> > > cloud (granted that's a yet) and if that vendor moves to the cloud
> > > it's highly unlikely to be in Microsoft's cloud.
> > >
> > > Meanwhile back at the cloud we pick really sucky passwords and we
> > > are not solving the access problems of divergent cloud vendors.
> > >
> > > Small businesses that are just starting out may be more Google apps
> > > ready than Microsoft cloud ready.
> > >
> > >
> > > Susan Bradley
> > > Meet up with me, Amy, Philip and Jeremy at the Brain Explosion in
> > Florida this September. I'll be talking about protecting your network
> > > http://www.thirdtier.net/brain-explosion/
> > >
> > > On 7/22/2014 2:16 PM, Rod Trent wrote:
> > > > The Cloud is all about small business - at least from Microsoft's
> > perspective.
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 5:07 PM
> > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] I'm sure you've heard already...
> > > >
> > > > Any word on Convergence (Dynamics/CRM conference)?
> > > >
> > > > (and as a small business, and I know that Teched never focused on
> > small business, but the total "for enterprise" focus makes me want to
> > remind Microsoft that they too were a small business at one time)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Susan Bradley
> > > > Meet up with me, Amy, Philip and Jeremy at the Brain Explosion in
> > Florida this September. I'll be talking about protecting your network
> > http://www.thirdtier.net/brain-explosion/
> > > >
> > > > On 7/22/2014 1:57 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote:
> > > >> It’s been yelled about, cursed, discussed, and hammered to death
> > > >> in various private forums, before it was ever announced publicly.
> > > >>
> > > >> The MVPs (Lync, Exchange, SharePoint, Office, I can’t speak for
> > any of
> > > >> the rest) hate it.
> > > >>
> > > >> Rod can tell us for certain, but I’m pretty sure the System
> > > >> Center folks hate it too (they had MMS).
> > > >>
> > > >> *From:*[email protected]
> > > >> [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *William
> > Robbins
> > > >> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 22, 2014 4:50 PM
> > > >> *To:* [email protected]
> > > >> *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] I'm sure you've heard already...
> > > >>
> > > >> I'm kind of surprised this topic has laid here quietly this long.
> > > >> I've never been able to go to any of the (now cancelled)
> > > >> conferences for one reason or the other, but I always had the
> > > >> impression they
> > were
> > > >> considered a rather big deal by IT folk that attended.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> - WJR
> > > >> See-no-evil monkeyHear-no-evil monkeySpeak-no-evil monkey
> > > >>
> > > >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Rod Trent
> > > >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> …but, TechEd, MEC, and all other events are being replaced.
> > > >>
> > > >> http://windowsitpro.com/cloud/teched-dead-long-live
> > > >>
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