This morning, there are some problems of our company email. I am a bit worrying about that. Our company website and email service are in the same web hosting company. Then I phoned to their support hotline. The problem is small, Our email has been just down about 10 minutes. I think no customers know about that. That is very important for phone support as a business. If I do some personal blogging, I can choose a budget web hosting which only provide support services via emails. Anything is not wrong, I just need to submit a ticket and wait. If I am running a business. I cannot afford much downtime. I need the things fixed as soon as possible. Thus, when I look at the webhost, support is my main factor to consider.

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Adobe stopped to sell their software, it goes all Subscription base business model. Even Microsoft sounds more keen to sell Office 365 Subscription than their Office 2013. I believe that is a future trend. The users can apply a subscription fee which is relative cheaper than a one-off fee to own the software. Moreover, the users always can get the latest software with the subscription. That sounds cool. But the users need to renew their subscription annually or monthly. Well, even we buy the software, we need to buy a upgrad version every few years.

When you buy a new server, please do not just consider their price tag. Please also take Warranty Cost and what kinds of support the hardware provider can support. For the server, you won't use it just for a year. You must need to extend the warranty. Moreover, the server need to be always on, we need to consider the support, whether they can come on-site as soon as possible. Actually, those terms are more important than purchase price of server.

Although that is still a blank window , I am working hard on that,AdvGen Contact Manager. I am aiming to use it for the contact management system in my fellowship. It will have a local database ,a nice WPF interface and 100% written in C#. I wish this xmas holidays, I will have more time to work on this project. That will be a tool for my fellowship.
(P.S. I wish I can get other groups in my church to use that!)

I bought some books from App Store before, but I like Kindle more. I am more prefer to buy books from Amazon. This is because Kindle apps can support multi-platforms. If I buy a book, I can use it in my iPad, Kindle and S3. That is so convenient. If I buy a book in App Store, I only read it via iPad. In that logic, buying a book in Kindle sounds more value for money.