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Source: Bob St.John (BStJohn@Serenity-Systems.com)
Moderator: Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
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PR Newswire #1256

Serenity Systems Offers Free PCs to Participating Businesses

Serenity Systems (http://www.Serenity-Systems.com), a technology 
startup in north Texas, has taken the step that everyone knew had 
to happen. They are offering "free PCs" to customers who are users of 
their services. Recently some organizations have developed programs 
to give PCs to consumers, but this seems to be the first national 
program to provide PCs to businesses. And the company is not limiting 
the number of PCs required by participating organizations. However, a 
business must sign up for a PC desktop services management contract.

According to Bob St.John, Director of New Business Development with 
the company, "People in our industry appreciate that the cost of 
acquiring a PC is small compared to the total cost of ownership. 
That inolves managing users, recovering from failures, and this year 
the biggest emphasis is on deploying new software to users, a very 
expensive procedure.

"Software deployment is being driven by Y2K concerns, but the fact is 
software changes and upgrades have become such a recurring task that 
there really is no let up to the problem in sight. And Y2K requires 
hardware and software which both comply with Y2K standards. Our services 
are directed at those Total Cost of Ownership issues. Frankly, it 
costs less to provide the PC than to bring the wide range existing 
systems a company may have into Y2K compliance."

Serenity Systems provides hardware, software and services directed at 
managing any or all tasks associated with business PCs. This is the 
ultimate step in the "outsourcing" trend of the '90s which saw companies 
retaining outside service organizations to install and manage their 
internal computing environment. In addition to Managed PC Client 
Systems, Serenity Systems is also Computing Telephony Integration 
vendor, supplying commercial voice mail and voice response systems.

"Our direction this year is to integrate the business PC and the business 
telephone, two business tools you tend to find on every desk, but 
which tend to exist as parallel universes. The biggest favor we could 
do for computers users is let their phones by managed by the PCs which 
can provide more function at less cost." said St.John


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MODERATOR'S NOTE: Bob St. John touches on this idea from a different 
perspective in the current issue of OS/2 e-Zine! Read the story at:

http://www.os2ezine.com/v4n4/howto.htm

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