How much does it cost to design and build a web site for a small company these days

I received a query today from my ex-Boss and a long-time friend,

How much does it cost to design and build a web site for a small company these days? I assume it depends on size of the site and complexity. I am thinking a small "regular" site. no database. no shopping basket. What is a good budget to start with?

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VPS / Dedicated Server versus Amazon Cloud: Questions and Answers

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Intel’s investments arm announces 7 deals totaling $25 million

Intel's investments arm announces 7 deals

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — The equity investing unit of computer chip maker Intel Corp. said Tuesday it has made seven new investments totaling $25 million to help foster new technologies.

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Microsoft to start charging for access to cloud computing system Windows Azure in February

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As Web-based e-mail gets more sophisticated, its features come to desktop Thunderbird software

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Cloud Computing: An Overview and the Future Direction

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10 Best Open Source ERP Software

opensourceerpWith recession hitting hard on the economy, businesses are holding back on ways to minimize IT expenditure. Top notch companies providing ERP software are affected by the ongoing financial crisis in the global market scaling down the IT investment. Implementation of ERP solution involves a hefty budget, long time and conscientious efforts for customization. To rescue the situation, open source ERP software have emerged as feasible alternative. The key reasons for the diversion includes lower cost, flexibility, large group of users and independence from solution providers. Additionally, companies can easily download the open source ERP solutions and customize them to fit the needs of the company. We had already done with the top 10 ERP software. This time we went for extensive research to assort a list of the best open source ERP software.

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A Close Look at Cisco Unfied Service Delivery Architecture for Cloud Services

dc_tech_ov_cis-88596 Cisco Unified Service Delivery provides service providers like you with the technologies to fully integrate, secure and virtualize their service delivery infrastructures in an unique way. With Unified Service Delivery and a next-generation IP network,  CISCO Unified Service Delivery combine the data-center and their IP network together to provide end-to-end delivery of services like video, collaboration or cloud services.

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Top 10 Hosted CRM Services

crm-solutionsHosted CRM or on-demand CRM or web based CRM service provides a simpler, faster and cost-effective customer relationship management services for businesses. Hosted CRM services are designed to streamline and automate the customer interactions are manage touch-points.  In hosted Customer Relationship Management, hardware and software component are provided and maintained by third party hosting provider at remote site. It is an easier and affordable solution for customer relationship for businesses with IT and budget constraints. The hosting service also stores all customer related data. Hosted CRM applications are run on a standard web browser. There are scores of hosted CRM services out there, which makes the choice difficult for most businesses. We had already done with the top CRM software, this time we decided to go for an extensive research to queue up the top 10 hosted CRM services for your convenience.

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No FUD Dept.: Difference between CentOS 5 versus RedHat Enterprise Linux 5

CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is built from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code. Other than logo and name changes CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is compatible with the equivalent Red Hat version.

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