On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:07:00 -0500, amicus_curious wrote:
> "7" <website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:dD5dj.69086$c_1.64711@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Tenth Planet wins $10mn deal from US firm
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Tech solutions vendor Tenth Planet Technologies Pvt Ltd has won a |
>>> $10-million contract from US collection firm Talbott, Adams & Moore
>>> Inc | (TAM Inc).
>>> |
>>> | Under the terms of the contract, Tenth Planet will develop and
>>> implement
>>> | a complete open source architecture solution for TAM Inc's
>>> collection | management businesses.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.business-standard.com/iceworld
>> storypage.php?leftnm=8&subLeft=2&chklogin=N&autono=308887&tab=r
>>
>>
>> Looks like there is big money in services companies offering open
>> source solutions. All big corporations have to do is outsource it if
>> they don't want to do it in-house.
>>
>>
> There is money in offering any kind of effective solution to point
> problems. They are far easier to implement using modern methods such as
> .NET, though. And far quicker. "He who grabs the fastest grabs the
> mostest." I think Abraham Lincoln said that. Or maybe it was Bill
> Gates.
>
> It is kind of ironic, though, that a bill collector would want to use
> Linux. The impoverished users of Linux are poor material for getting any
> payback. Can't get blood from a turnip and can't get money from an OSS
> fan, they say, neither has either.
I may not be rich, but I am certainly not impoverished. Michael Dell,
OTOH, is rich.
--
Rick
|
|
