Networking: Wiring the small office

CHICAGO, March 27 (UPI) -- Computer networks can dramatically cut costs and improve customer satisfaction, but only for major Fortune 500 and Forbes 400 companies, right? Perhaps that was the case last century, but not anymore. Experts tell United Press International's Networking that technologies are now providing the same benefits to small and medium-sized enterprises -- and that this may be part of what is behind the productivity-based economic boom in the United States today.

"Today's small and mid-size companies are taking a cue from these larger organizations," Joe Hewitt, an expert on small and medium-sized business networking at Dimension Data, a Hauppauge, N.Y.-based computer consultancy, told Networking, "and are leveraging the power of technology for business advantage." By Gene Koprowski