The market is changing, the computer tools businesses are using today, are different than the tools they were using before. The cost benefit of computer technologies are being perfected using more advance computer technologies, like Virtual Servers, more efficient operating systems, open source operating systems with open source free software options, that used to cost so much before, now they are in the palm of your hand, and easy to use.

There are some computer business technologies which you might want to consider using, and change your business computer ways, to a more cost effective way.

* Virtualization – The computer virtual world has started where you can use virtual servers that enable you to install many different operating systems, on one computer, and let them all work at the same time. So, as an example, if you take 5 Linux computers (5 separate PC’s) which each of them has a different purpose, like web hosting, ftp, file server etc… and install all of them on one PC (not even a server), and get 4 PC’s free, and all that you might need from that PC with visualization is a bit more memory and hard-disk capacity which today are not too expensive.
A regular PC today, has more processing power, and large memory capacity than it used to be on a regular PC, so you can use that PC to host almost anything you want, servers, client operating systems, or just different Linux software application that are being used in our business network, and all are on the same platform, saves the cost of buying a computer for each of them, and of course save the place to hold those servers, like if they are being installed in a rack-mount cabinet on our server room, we clear those rack-mount servers for only one server that contain all of them, saves us space on the cabinet to install other computers (maybe more virtual servers).
You might want to seriously consider Virtual environment for your business.

* Video – Business computer technology includes new technologies of communications, as we can use much faster communication channels, and as such use video and not just chats. We can conduct a meeting online using video conference equipment and see each other while you conduct the video conference, with very good audio qualities using tools that automatically know how to focus on the person that talks around the conference room’s table. Such computer technology enable the business to communicate and control his branches even if they are in different parts of the world.
There are good equipment for audio and video, and my favorites are the POLYCOM equipment which enable smooth high quality video conferencing.