What we do

Samalander-OS provides a variety of services related to Open Source SW.  We specialize in supporting Open Source

• Office products as replacements for Microsoft Office and other word processing packages such as XMetal, AborText, and FrameMaker.
• Portal products that can be used to put  your organization on the web quickly, efficiently and in a maintainable way.

Who we are

We are a group of

• IT,
• sales and marketing,
• popular writing and technical writing, and
• documentation specialists.

Although Open Source software is a relatively recent fad, some of us have been using it for many years professionally in our own work as technical writers, IT specialist, web-site consultants, and Content Management professionals.

Office product support

Lot's of people are excited the new OpenOffice and StarOffice alternatives to Microsoft Office.  The ROI of moving to these new office software products has been estimated at 15% a year to over 40%. 

We believe these are gross understimates for some groups of users, especially small government offices, small business, schools, non-profit organizations and individuals or SOHO professionals. 

So, what is small?  If you have a need to put less than 15,000 to 50,000 pages online in a hurry,  you're small ... well maybe not really small, but small enough to benefit immediately from what's available in the Open Source world.   

We believe that Microsoft Office is a product that depends on having ready access to a well funded, well staffed, IT department. Since most of us don't have access to this kind of resource, Open Source office and web portal products present an enormous opportunity to save time and money.

Portal product support

Ever think of going beyond Micorosft Front Page or another off-the-shelf commercial product to a full fledged Content Management System (CMS) portal for your website? This is what award wining products like Mambo, Joomla, and others can do for you. Samalander-OS can help you make the move.

The benefits are enormous. You get easy content control, content archiving, and content distribution combined with many other features such as calendar, forums and others.

Let us show you how easy, efficient, and inexpensive moving to a professional Open Source portal solution can be.