Attention all Developers and IT Professionals Working in a Mixed UNIX/Linux/Windows Environment!

Are you tired of freeware tools that are a hassle to find and painful to keep current? And then, when you finally have everything you need the tools don’t quite get the job done.

What is freeware costing you?

Although it is true many tasks can be completed with freeware, developers and IT professionals inevitably run into problems collecting, updating, integrating and using these tools. These and other problems end up consuming valuable time, at a cost far more than the license and support fees that were originally "saved." One customer writes:


“…after floundering about attempting to cobble together various bits and pieces of freeware to help me complete some of the urgent engineering tasks that have been set out before me, somewhere in the back of my head I recalled the name MKS toolkit…” - Harry A. Kaplan, Artabolic Software Consulting

When a freeware binary is downloaded, do you have any idea who built it? What their credentials are? Do they rebuild regularly? Test their builds? Not to mention that every time there are new features or bug fixes in these bits and pieces you will need to update. Yes, you can elect to debug and fix any problems in the tools yourself, but then you end up rebuilding with all of its cascading dependency and build nightmares. Isn’t this what you were trying to avoid in the first place?

In general there are no two pieces of freeware which come from the same source. How will these disparate tools work together once you put them all in your environment? Just how much time will you waste trying to get BASH from one provider working with sshd from another when they were not written by the same person and never tested together? And, WHO DO YOU ASK for help?

What is freeware costing you? What alternatives are available to you?

MKS Toolkit is a comprehensive product, under professional configuration management, carefully controlled, virus-checked, integrated, QA'd, and supported by a reliable and trusted commercial vendor. The MKS utilities make use of the Windows installer and are guaranteed to work together on Windows! This means:

Benefits include:

  1. No more DLL Hell!
  2. Silent and Administrative installation – making it easy to deploy in your organization.
  3. Works with 3rd party deployment packages.
  4. Ensures a common and consistent install throughout your organization.
  5. High-quality software – virtually bug free.
  6. Built, maintained and supported by a single expert team and used by well over 1 million developers and IT professionals worldwide.

The bottom line – What is freeware REALLY costing you?


MKS Inc. To request an evaluation visit: http://www.mkssoftware.com/eval/default.asp?distrib=freewarepromo

For more information please call 1-800-637-8034 or email us at: tk_info@mkssoftware.com