The OSS (Open Source Software) Specialists! At Launch Solutions we look at your business IT needs and suggest better, cheaper alternatives to your current IT infrastructure.  We provide free impartial advice only making money by saving you money!  A Launch Solutions support contract fully covers the cost of migration and guarantees to reduce your overheads.  Subsequent contracts are open to be negotiated with any supplier allthough we do hope you will choose to renew with ourselves.  There is no vendor lock-in thus ensuring the best market rates for your business. We have over a decade of experience in installing and adminstering Open Source IT systems for small businesses.  Our systems are reliable, customizable and great value for money. We make no initial charge to perform a full audit of you current IT systems and services.  We will focus on your current IT spend and provide you with a detailed proposal, explaining which of your current systems can be replaced with OSS equivilents and what the saving will be to your business. Whilst moving to OSS systems will certainly save your business money each year, they are constanly evolving and being improved, security holes are patched, new features are added and occasionally hardware fails and must be replaced.  Just like a cars automotive systems, IT systems also require maintenance to ensure reliable operation.   Not only does our initial support contract include the cost of maintaining your systems but it also covers the initial study and full migration to new systems. If you are currently being forced into considering a costly hardware upgrade now is the perfect time to consider OSS systems.  OSS systems can make do with slower, older computers providing a double saving to businesses that adopt this approach.		We have successfully employed these systems for years in our own businesses saving ourselves many thousands of pounds over the years.  It has been traditionally very difficult to get small and medium sized businesses to look critically at their IT systems in the past, but with the recession biting, more businesses are willing to spend time and effort to reduce their overheads and re-invigorate their businesses.  We view our business relationship as long term and results focussed.  Our goal is to provide you with the very best OSS systems and support at the most competitive price available with no drawbacks.  We draw upon a large vibrant local community of OSS developers and consultants as well as our own in-house experts.  We are constantly monitoring the latest OSS system developments and will undertake to always provide you with the best of breed software.  As part of our support contract you will always be provided with the best OSS software available.   In signing a support contract (initially for 2 year minimum term) with us we will undertake to migrate your current IT systems to ones that we will fully support.  We undertake the migration in a professional manner with minimal disruption to your business.  For critical systems we produce a migration plan which also incorporates a rollback plan should a migration fail, ensuring your business is allways in an operational state.    Partnering with Launch Solutions will leave you with lower overheads and a host of new options for customizing your IT systems to better support your business activities.  With OSS systems an independent developer can allways be found to undertake additional work at competitive rates or you can allways just ask us! Where applicable we partner with other companies to provide a fully integrated solution.  For example, we recommend VOIPON solutions as your VOIP (Voice over IP ) supplier.  We fully support VOIPON and will install and configure your service as part of our support contract.  Should your business require something special we will locate the best partner for the undertaking.
Lee Morgan BSc Hon Principal Software Engineer and Director of Launch Solutions.  With 14 years of experience working for large multi-national blue chip companies including BT, Thales, Aerosystems and Serco.  In 1997 Lee was awarded an Honours degree in Software Engineering Management by Bournemouth University's School of Design, Engineering and Computing.  In 1998 Lee Morgan incorporated Launch Solutions to provide technical consultancy services to British Telecom at their Research & Development Laboratory at Martlesham in Ipswich.