[osdcmy-public] Re: MSC losing the branding war? And how FOSS can give 67% ROI to the government

there are a number of models for foss one of these is the sharing for the continual development of the software among peers these works when the original author do not have enough resources to do it alone. resources could be developers, testers, users, marketing / awareness, etc in the case of k

[osdcmy-public] Re: MSC losing the branding war? And how FOSS can give 67% ROI to the government

Hi Red1, Oh, no wonder, i never did received that mail. Can you resend to marcusinternetnow.com.my. The @python email is going thru a different beast. i still have much to learn from your OSS experience, hope to meet up again. Marcus. red1 wrote: Hi Marcus, Your email account seems

[osdcmy-public] Re: MSC losing the branding war? And how FOSS can give 67% ROI to the government

hi all, if the branding war relates to IT, then I'd rather phrase it more poetically: "Are we being left behind in the e-dust of the k-economy" ..TM ;-) @Marcus, re: marketing of your product, you should talk to MDec, afterall their charter is to produce Msian success-stories, and you are ahe

[osdcmy-public] Re: MSC losing the branding war? And how FOSS can give 67% ROI to the government

i would certainly rank ubs as among the top 5 accounting software for small business along with peachtree and quickbooks. ubs is so good, that sage software international bought into the company. and in malaysia it retails from rm700. in usa, quickbooks retails from us$100. if i am not mistaken, u

[osdcmy-public] Re: MSC losing the branding war? And how FOSS can give 67% ROI to the government

Hi Marcus, Your email account seems to kick back after last mail to u. So i will use this instead. Thanks for the link u gave in it. Yes, it was very interesting talking to you about your project for many reasons: 1. It is a Malaysian development effort 2. It uses its own business model (say

[osdcmy-public] Re: MSC losing the branding war? And how FOSS can give 67% ROI to the government

Malaysia does have its own sofware , the UBS accounting and InternetNow MailServer :-) . InternetNow had fairly good success in Malaysia, handful in Singapore and now working out a distribution deal in Iran for the latest  MailNow!5 and with USA's After logic. What Inow don't have is branding

[osdcmy-public] Re: MSC losing the branding war? And how FOSS can give 67% ROI to the government

Raja Iskandar Shah wrote: red1 and myself have already calculated that to produce 1 competent freshie developer takes 6 months and rm50k (average of rm8k per month). this person's income value is rm8k per month (using kelly salary guide max scale for a websphere application developer).

[osdcmy-public] Re: MSC losing the branding war? And how FOSS can give 67% ROI to the government

red1 wrote: > 4) Having branding campaigns where u land in KLIA you see singboards > "Welcome to Multimedia Super Corridor - Land of Firsts' and you have > image and sites on Nichol David, Jimmy Choo, Thumbrive maker, Michele > Yeoh, red1' see? i even missed what is MSC's real branding. It sho

[osdcmy-public] Re: MSC losing the branding war? And how FOSS can give 67% ROI to the government

red1, your 2nd slide is based on the pest analysis technique and not porter's 5 forces pest analysis : political, economic, social, technological porter's 5 forces : competi