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Dan Napier’s Opinion:

The following are brands and sources for computer software and hardware that I have found to be useful. The costs vary, but I have found them to be the best value. Tomorrow somebody may have a better solution and these recommendations are my opinion. If you find some better stuff out there let me know. I like equipment that is reliable and that will work with other equipment. I think that it is important that software is open and that it supports many operating systems.  Security is very important and these systems and recommendations are for knowledgable experienced end users.

Recommends the following software:

Wordprocessor: Wordperfect   That said The New Office 2007 untested and very complicated may be OK, but backwards compatibility is not there.  Upgrade or change carefully.
Book Keeping: Quick Books That said the very best is a program that you wrote in C.

AntiVirus: Sophos   Bitdefender
Web Browser:* Mozilla Firefox

Web Page Design:* Mozilla Sea Monkey

Advanced Web: Adobe Photoshop

Recommended hardware:

Firewall Software: InJoy

Firewall Hardware: Cisco PIX

Desktop: Lenovo

Server: IBM Available with Linux

GPS Garmin IQUE 3600, or M3 not Palm Software

Recommended computer hardware sources:

Any Hardware CDW (866) 437-4506 Phil Mercier

I know this is a sole source, but with the advantage of the fact that Phil is a good guy, I do not feel bad about sole sourcing.

In my opinion the only systems to run with direct access to the world wide web are Linux, Apple, Unix or any IBM OS.

* This is free and will run on any platform.

Linux, Apple, IBM, Unix, CDW, Corel, Wordperfect, Garmin, Cisco and Injoy, Adobe Linux, Palm and OS2 are trademark names and belong to the owners of those trademarks, certainly not to us. We were not compensated for the above recommendations, and we will not accept anything either.