Had a busy day zipping around the D.C. beltway recently. Checked my e-mail a dozen times on my PDA, which gets the e-mail feeds from an outsourced mail server and reflected on the beauty of outsourcing. When I stopped in at Brivo’s office in , Steve Van Till, CEO of Brivo, told me the story of how integrators over the years have complained steadily and loudly about the problems associated with the PCs they deploy to support various security applications, like access control. PCs need frequent updates, suffer crashes and hard drive failures, fall prey to viruses, and more. Dedicated PCs get used for other applications, which cause conflicts and other errors, too. Maintaining PCs is the bane of many security resellers’ existence.