Technology

Let’s make the entire Village of Skokie technologies Open Source. Open Source technologies are just a few very simple methods to modernize and save tax payers money!

• Ubuntu vs. Windows, Apple, etc.


• CentOS vs. Microsoft Server, Novell, etc.


• Google Apps vs. Microsoft Office, WordPerfect, etc.
  

For just $12.95 a month the Village of Skokie can have a modern, easy to use & efficient email system capable for a 1,000 Skokie employees from Yahoo Small Business.

A 2006 Gartner Report stated: www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=497088
"Too many IT organizations and too much IT spending is not contributing directly to business growth, according to Gartner, Inc. In fact, eight out of ten dollars that companies spend on IT is “dead money”.

"At least two-thirds of all IT spending is just to sustain the business, not to change or transform the business. The investments allocated to do new things, to change the business, are usually low, no more than 20 percent, and the investment in innovations which could transform the business is even less."

That’s why transparency is so important with tax payer’s money. Technology does not have to be complicated nor expensive all the time.