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Great news for Canadian BC Hydro business customers. BC Hydro have added DssW Power Manager to their Product Incentive Programme (PIP).

DssW Power Manager join’s BC Hydro Product Incentive Programme

As a BC Hydro business customer, you can now purchase DssW Power Manager with an effective rebate of $6 CAD per Mac. This incentive programme is run by BC Hydro to promote the use of energy saving technology.

To qualify for BC Hydro’s incentive, you must purchase your DssW Power Manager licences through your local DssW Authorised Reseller, Macinhome.

For those keeping track, we celebrated this news with homemade chocolate cupcakes.

Thanks to Garry Barker, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, for the fun write up of my “Mac’s Lazy Design” talk.

Beautiful chair and cot at NGV International, Melbourne

I argued the benefits of laziness at last week’s Victoria Mac User Group (iMUG) meeting and Garry was in the audience. We chatted afterwards and it seems the topic struck a cord.

Thanks to last weekend’s launch of the DssW Authorised Reseller programme, all future DssW purchases will now support unicode names and organisation details.

Detail from Kim Hoa Tram's NGV International exhibit

Unicode support is important. Unicode support means that DssW licences can now include characters from any written language.

In the past we have had to issue licences with simplified, and in some cases mangled, name and organisation details. Limitations in our payment software meant we had to settle with a solution that worked well for the majority. Regretably, a few customers received licences where their details had to be simplfied.

Thankfully that is all in the past.

We felt it was essential for our resellers to be able to provide licences issued in their local written language. The software we built to power the DssW Authorised Reseller programme supports unicode from the ground up. Resellers can provide licences using any written language their customers need.

We use the same system as our resellers. Thus, like our resellers, DssW’s licences now support any written language.

Over the weekend we launched our DssW Authorised Reseller programme. This programme makes it easier for you, our business and academic users, to purchase DssW solutions.

Helen Bray's handmade Tiffany lamp

Easier because purchasing software from within an organisation can often be difficult and time consuming. Many organisations have strict purchasing protocols and procedures that need to be followed. Others have restricted suppliers and can only deal with specific resellers.

Those barriers have been reduced or removed entirely.

You can now ask your prefered software supplier to sign up as a DssW Authorised Reseller. For your supplier it is a clear pay-as-you-go deal with access to exclusive resale licences. For you for it means dealing with people you know and who know your organisation’s needs.

Through a DssW Authorised Reseller, you can purchase DssW solutions in your local currency and get great licence deals not available directly from us.

Exclusive reseller licence deals include fixed cost Power Manager packs for:

• 25, 50, and 75 Mac small-to-medium enterprise environments;
• Classroom and academic lab licences;
• School licences.

These packs offer great value and are designed to make purchasing for your organisation easy, affordable, and smart.

If you are thinking of deploying an energy saving solution within your organisation, you should be talking to your friendly technical contacts about DssW today.