CRM Vendor Technalign Offers Christian OEM

It being a Sunday, we'll note that CRM vendor Technalign, based in Delta, Colorado has announced that they have officially partnered with Business Computers, Inc. in Texas to provide a Christian Desktop based on the Christian Edition of the OEM.

That's right, the Christian Edition includes preinstalled applications such as The King James Bible, Scofield reference notes, Strong's Greek and Hebrew Bible Dictionary for SWORD, and Dan's Guardian for content filtering.

The base system is an AMD Sempron 2800 with 256 megs of memory, an 80 gigabyte hard drive, a CD r-w, 3.5 inch floppy, mouse, keyboard and of course the TaFusion OEM Christian version installed.

Business Computers, Inc. laptops and desktops will be preconfigured running the latest TaFusion Frontier Christian Edition OEM, powered by MEPIS. The system will also include OpenOffice.org ( a full office suite compatible with Microsoft (News - Alert) Office files ), Internet browsers, Thunderbird mail client, and CD/DVD burning software, to name a few. They will also sell systems with the regular Frontier products including those preconfigured with CrossOver Office and the PRO DVD versions.

Dianne Ursini, CEO of Technalign, Inc., said the new offering (get it? Offering?) "will allow companies and individuals to select a Christian version of TaFusion Frontier preconfigured. The demand has shown that there is a need for such an offering."

Of course there are Christians who would say such "choices" were already preordained. Kind of like, you know, preinstalled software from the foundation of the universe.

This June Technalign announced a partnership with InsynQ's Appgen Business Software group to provide Appgen's MyBooks Professional and Custom Suite accounting software products to partners and customers via the Technalign Partner/Distributor distribution network.

Technalign agreed to deliver Appgen applications through their partner network, starting with a single user small business accounting application priced at only $59.00, and an Executive Dashboard reporting module for only $295.00.

The second phase of the partnership will involve interfacing MyBooks Professional with Technalign's HiAtlantis CRM, a product scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2007.

In March Technalign announced the beta program for its new release of TaFusion MEPIS Linux. The new release was codenamed Frontier because of the company's move to Delta, Colorado.

Business Computers, Inc. systems are manufactured and shipped directly by Business Computers, based in Texas. All systems are fully certified by Technalign for Frontier and are compliant with industry standards. The desktops come with a factory warranty and with either a one- to three-year component manufacturer warranty. Praying that it works always helps too, of course.

Stephen Bugge of Business Computers, Inc. and a man who has never once heard a joke about his last name in connection with computer operating systems, says consumers, as well as businesses, "are demanding Christian products as well as reasonably priced ones. Our systems provide companies with additional options at the lower ends, while we can also meet the demand at the high-end."

Business Computers provides services to business and consumers nationwide with full consulting services.

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