Furthermore, networking cuts software expenses. One program, with the appropriate license to be run on a network, is certainly cheaper than multiple copies of a program. Let's Talk Software Software is all the stuff that runs on computers. A videotape is to a VCR what computer software is to computer hardware. Without computer software, all you have is an expensive paperweight sitting on your desk.
Much software is free or inexpensive.
Using the Internet, a worldwide network of computers, there is much to be obtained free for the downloading. But for the real jazzy stuff, you can visit your local computer mart with a newspaper sale coupon in hand. Like hardware, software prices continue to drop. Another common way to get free software is with the purchase of hardware. Sometimes it may take a little haggling, but it is common practice.