To YOU Jacob, to you. If you want and or need synchronis fast internet speeds, pay for it like every other business. (btw good on you if you have a digital business).

My point is, that without businesses to use the internet the investments pointless. FTTH is even more pointless…fast facebook? Better Youtube? if you are running a business from home, then fair enough…but again pay for it.

Comparing our speeds to Japan is a fools errand. They have a population density and digital economy that means investment is much more easily justified.
Finally a 10% Roi is nothing. Cost of capital is currently sitting at what ? 6%? that means 4% return. just (JUST) over the return from putting it in the bank. That is not a good investment pure and simple

And you completely fail to see that this is essentially a highly profitable business venture that the national lead government is going on. The government will guarantee a 10% interest on all bonds that company’s who enter the ppp will get on every dollar they invest. So that means that they are sure that it will be returning more than 10%pa. Because they wouldn’t have said they will guarantee it if it wouldn’t happen as they would lose money.

And a guaranteed 10% return on money invested into the fibre network will provide a steady, safe and stable investment for the governments money put into this. And as a bonus we will be getting better services for less than I pay for mine. This is a business in devour which will provide the government with a fair return for their investments and also lower the price of it for our company’s in new zealand. After all we can not compete with overseas company’s if all our company’s costs are higher than their overseas competitors.

And just to point this out I am shure that many people complained when the government made their national fibre grid, or when they put roading in. And yet I do not see them complaining now. And do not forget that this will take time to build. By the time we build it and get 100/100 plans japan will undoubtably be at 10Gbps which is an increase of 10x their current best plans which are 1Gbps and are 10x the speed of their previous best plans. And most people in japan are on the 100/100 plans so yes their is demmand. After all they are consuming it… So shut it..

Xero has given me the ability to keep right up to date with my accounting in my 3 small businesses with minimal effort.
In the past I was always playing catchup (not that with MYOB ever felt like I was ‘playing’).

I never really knew the full story of my cashflow, Xero has kept me right on top of this over the previous year.

I strongly recommend people take a look at Xero, if it suits your business - Take the leap, you will not regret it.

as they say, RIP MYOB!

I don’t agree with you about Facebook, either. I have concerns about certain issues like privacy, but other than that it looks like an interesting social experiment and quite an innovative evolution of the internet. Maybe you keep in touch with your friends in your own way, but people using Facebook (or similar things) track down old friends they lost touch with 15 years before and interact with people they know on the other side of the world in a way that’s comparable as if everyone was in the same big room. For some of these people, busy lives (perhaps doing work) would mean there would be no way on earth they’d have the time to keep in touch with all their old friends throughout the world and keep track of what everyone’s up to, but stuff like Facebook makes it possible.

Facebook’s obviously not worth anything to you if that’s really how you see it, but it’s worth something to the people who use it and to people for whom it works better than other methods of communication and staying in touch. I’m sure that many people would tell me that going tramping’s a waste of my time because there’s nothing economically useful to gain from it, but it’s a part of my life that I really enjoy and it’s another way I stay in touch with some of my friends.

Beyond this, of course, Facebook is a big marketing tool and that’s where the money comes from. If Facebook died then the marketing money would just move to whatever people were paying attention to now, and people would just lose touch with friends and everyone would be a little less happy. The economy wouldn’t die, as you’ve said, but you could say exactly the same for 90% of businesses. That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a good thing. (People still lose jobs, there’s less choice, etc etc.)

Anyway, that’s just my two cents at the moment. I haven’t thought it through in detail so perhaps I’ll adapt my ideas over time.

Evolve Systems Australasia (ESA), distributor of the integrated Accounting, CRM, E-Business and Point-of-Sale software solution Interprise Suite, announced today that it will be actively targeting MYOB’s small-to-medium business software customers.

After experiencing a very favourable response to the first phase of the Australian/New Zealand rollout of Interprise Suite, ESA has identified an enormous opportunity to penetrate the customer base of the established leader in the business software arena, MYOB.

Unlike the current product offerings from the likes of MYOB and Xero, Interprise Suite delivers a complete business solution that combines the best aspects of a Web application (internet enabled, easy to deploy and update) with the best attributes of a desktop system.

The development of Interprise Suite has been based on the rationale that customers should not have to settle with a business solution that is either wholly Internet-driven or LAN-based.

“For some time now the big players in the business accounting software market have been promising, or at least foreshadowing, the release of an affordable, reliable and comprehensive business solution which users can run over the Web as a browser-based application or over a LAN as a desktop application”, said Floremee Charles, Managing Director of Evolve Systems Australasia. “Unfortunately for the tens of thousands of small to mid-sized businesses which are struggling to remain profitable during these challenging economic times, the current market leaders have let their customers down.

“With Interprise Suite business owners can finally have the best of both worlds. Interprise Suite has bridged the gap by providing the business connectivity customers want without sacrificing the performance and rich user interface they have come to expect from a desktop application. Whereas MYOB and its main competitors would have to completely re-write their software to meet the connectivity demands of today’s small-to-medium sized business, Interprise Suite has been developed from the ground up.”

Whether a user is connecting via the LAN or the internet, Interprise Suite’s state of the art ‘Smart Client’ technology will automatically optimise itself based on the connection method. Interprise Suite’s ‘Smart Client’ technology allows a desktop application to run over the Internet like a secure browser application. For companies that do not need internet connectivity, Interprise Suite can be installed on a local area network just like any other Client/Server application.

In the lead-up to the release of the 2009 version of Interprise Suite – scheduled for rollout in July 2009 – ESA will be aggressively marketing Interprise Suite not only to the broader small-to-medium sized business market but also to existing users of MYOB and competing products. This will be supported

by an expanded product sales and support team at ESA, as well as by an ever-growing network of channel partners.

“We are projecting big things for Interprise Suite in 2009 and we have every reason to believe our high ambitions for the product will be achieved”, said Charles. “The simple fact is that the big players in this market cannot deliver what their customers demand right now, namely an affordable and easy to use business solution that includes all the powerful functionality of Interprise Suite – namely accounting, CRM, point-of-sale, ERP and e-business.”

Interprise Suite was developed by US-based Interprise Software Solutions, Inc. In April 2008 Interprise Software Solutions was acquired by the Services and Technology Division of Taylor Corporation, a Forbes Private 200 company with over 100 subsidiaries and 14,000 employees worldwide. A leading provider of business and personal communications products, technologies and services, Taylor Corporation provides products and services to over 3,000,000 small businesses and consumers and the majority of the Fortune 500.

In July 2008 Evolve Systems Australasia secured exclusive distribution rights to Interprise Suite for Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the Pacific Islands.

Pricing and Availability
Interprise Suite is available now from Evolve Systems Australasia for an average price of $2,000.00 per user including support. Multi-user licences are also available. There is also the option to obtain software finance from Evolve Systems Australasia from $30.00 per user per week. For further information on Interprise Suite contact Evolve Systems Australasia on 1300 736 637; email sales@interprise.com.au; Web: http://www.interprise.com.au

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About Evolve Systems Australasia
Sydney-based Evolve Systems Australasia is the exclusive distributor of Interprise Suite for Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the Pacific Islands. With 18 years’ experience in business application distribution, Evolve Systems Australasia provides solutions that are designed to help customers get the most out of their business software without incurring substantial expenses. Our corporate strategy focuses on the development of enduring client relationships and the provision of quality software solutions to Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SMEs). We are dedicated to helping clients achieve their highest objectives and goals. For further information contact Evolve Systems Australasia on 1300 736 637; email sales@interprise.com.au; Web: http://www.interprise.com.au

Mike, I am not going to argue with you on this, but here is a point that signifies of what you’re trying to say.

There are lots and millions of people out there , enjoying psychic predictions and homeopathy treatments in which you just know that these practices are useless. Are they worth something just because there are million followers? I’ll leave that to you to conclude.