Hi Noel, This is Alice, Executive - Business Development from Daffodil Software Ltd, based in New Delhi ,India.
I was going through CTJUG Forum and found that your company is one stop shop for any IT requirements. This focus presents tremendous opportunity between our companies to establish a mutual association towards IT off shoring. We are a Software Development company and have been assisting and working with clients like your's. Therefore, I would like to initiate a discussion regarding a strategic partnership wherein we might assist you in your development requirements. Please find below the details about Daffodil Software and the kind of services we provide. Daffodil Software is a 8 year mature, 100 person strong organization based out of New Delhi, India. We provide deep software engineering skills to the global software industry. We have a satisfied client base of more than 70 companies spread across US , UAE and Europe. Our service areas include bespoke software development and testing services. We have a proficient team of IT professionals working in Java/J2EE, .Net & LAMP technologies. We are also working on few of the latest technologies like AJAX, JSF, MS-Sharepoint and Web Services. We have experience of working in HTML, CSS, Macromedia Flash, Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, C, C++, C#, XML, SQL Server, MS-Access, scripting languages, ASP.NET, JSP and also have proven expertise in areas such as shopping cart integration, dynamic websites, CMS etc. We also have enough experience working on commercial/open source shopping carts and CMS systems primarily in PHP and ASP. Our team is comfortable working with OsCommerce, ZenCart, Comersus, Typo3, Joomla, OpenCms and Mambo. We have developed RAD tool which is developed using Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and is an open source Java development framework - http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/overview.html We have also developed our products and various client applications using JAVA. Please find below links to go through them. You can go through the link http://solutions.daffodilsw.com/daffodil-portfolio.html#7 to view our product portfolio & the link http://solutions.daffodilsw.com/java-technologies.html to view details providing examples of applications developed in JAVA. These details provide you with evidence regarding our JAVA competency. As your company is also into same technological domain, I foresee a business synergy where both the companies can have mutual benefits through a strategic alliance. We would like to present to you a Team of Developers here in our Indian development Center, working on your Time Zone and acting as "Your IT TEAM". We understand that the decision to go for offshore operations has always been a major breakthrough for IT companies. Our company would like to offer you the time tested, cost effective Offshore Development Center (ODC) services at minimum of risk and the maximum ROI. On business models front we have two working models: Fixed Price Model: In this case you provide detailed specification (SRS) of your requirements and we in turn, provide you with estimate in terms of Time and Cost. Monthly Model: When the client's requirement is on a continuous basis then we offer dedicated resource(s) to the client who works as the virtual employee of the client and adheres to his development guidelines and timelines. The billing in this model is done on advance monthly basis. Rates Service Hourly Rate Monthly Rate (176 hrs) Software Development (Java & .NET) 14 USD/hr 2400 USD Software Development (PHP) 14 USD/hr 2400 USD Testing Services 12 USD/hr 2000 USD Web Designing 10 USD/hr 1600 USD Here our main intention is to build a long term business relationship and few hundered $$$ here and there does not make much of a difference. We are keen to start a Project and show our capabilities as a long term IT Patner. We are comfortable to execute this project. Currently we do have expertise resources in the technologies you needed (JAVA) as we have hired it depending on the headcount required. Let me know your feedback regarding this and will then move to another phase. Technical telecon is a better option for understanding of the project. There might be some misunderstanding in the scope of the project in our end. Kindly let me know your comfortable timings for the same. You can go through the followling link to view our portfolio: http://www.daffodilsolutions.com/daffodil-portfolio.html You are welcome to visit our website www.daffodilsolutions.com for more information. Let me know if there is any opportunity for us wherein we can assist you. If required I can pass onto some of our references to you and can forward some resumes for your review. If this is of interest to you and you think there are some avenues where we may add value to your business processes, I would be more than glad to schedule a telecon to explore this association and to extend a discussion regarding how Daffodil Solutions can assist you in the development & designing of cost effective and quality solutions and thus have a strategic partnership between our two companies wherein we act as your offshore software development partner. Looking forward to hear from you. Thanks & Regards, Alice . A | Executive - Business Development Daffodil Software Ltd Global VOIP: +1-650-557-2134 | +44 0208 144 6737 | +61 03 9016 4213 Fax: +91-124-414-5801 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype id: alice_daffodil MSN IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.daffodilsolutions.com On Dec 6 2007, 5:50 pm, Noel Grandin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > To be blunt, not that much. > > When we hire people, we tend to want a 3-year degree (university or > tech) of some kind. > > If the person is smart, we don't even care if they've never seen Java. > > The thing is, if the person understands the core concepts of programming > and computers, teaching them Java is reasonably easy. > > But to teach a person those core concepts is hard. Obviously there are > exceptions - but as a generalisation, that's how it works. > > And also, we don't generally rate the BCom.Informatics courses > (university & tech) very highly when it comes to pure programming. > We prefer BSc of some kind. > > Regards, Noel. > > William Reid wrote: > > Hi > > > I would like to know what's the value of Sun Certifications period. I > > am certified as a Java Programmer, Web Component Developer and > > Business Component Developer. I scored above 80% on all the exams. I > > got certified in 2004 and 2005. > > > However, it's very difficult for me find a Java position. I'm > > currently working as a Systems-\Business Analyst\Programmer\Network > > Admin, but I want to focus purely on Java Development. > > > It's seems companies refuse to offer you a position unless you have a > > degree. I have just registered for a BCom (Informatics) course at > > Unisa, hope it will help.... > > > My question ultimately is, how worthy is a Sun Java Certification? > > > On Dec 6, 2007 1:49 PM, Carl Woermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > I would rather spend money on the web component developer cert if any > > - I stand to be corrected, but there have been huge improvements to > > the way web services are deployed and developed - I suspect that the > > exam concentrates on rather low level implementation issues that were > > useful if you had to "roll your own" (esp 3 years ago) or were forced > > to use the standard J2ee toolkit implementations - for an example look > > at the way EJB3 web services are implemented -simple annotation does > > 80% of the trick - muuuuch easier than using JAXP JAXB etc - since > > all > > that plumbing is now hidden from us mere mortals.. > > > On Dec 6, 2007 1:26 PM, Fritz Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Does anyone here know anything about the Sun Certified Developer > > for > > > Java Web Services? 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