Welcome to the Phoenix Workgroup Computing web site and customer portal.  We built this site (and had a great time in the process, by the way) to help our consultants and customers store and share information, documentation and files for projects in progress.

We are located in East Lansing, Michigan, USA home the Michigan State University Spartans.  In fact, on a clear fall afternoon we can hear the cheers from the stadium on those rare occasions when we're not at the game. And when the Spartans have an Air Force flyover, like on Veterans' Day, those jets fly right over our office, which is both exciting and also a rigorous test of our vibration-damped disk farm.

We invite you to explore the site, take advantage of the free utilities and downloads, and share your challenges and successes with us and the others who use this site. In the immortal words of Red Green (well-known Canadian TV star), "We're pullin' for you - we're all in this together."

How do you coordinate the efforts of widely distributed development teams, each member of which may have a different piece of a large puzzle to complete? We use collabrative software to help keep things in sync, and to save us a fortune in airfare and long-distance bills.

Some of the materials in this web portal are OPEN. That means anyone who is registered on the site can download and use them.  Many of these items are utilities of various kinds that we have built for our customers over the years. Think of them as can openers: we could have used chisels or tin snips or dynamite, but we were looking for a more efficient and less dangerous way to accomplish the same task.

Some of these materials are considered confidential and are specific to a single customer.  Those items will be visible only to persons associated with the customer; other registered users will not be able to see or download them. In other words, we put the open software in the lobby; the confidential software goes in the vault.