On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 13:00 -0600, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > It would be interesting to see if we can float those thoughts and raise > funds for the development of it such as make a stock flotation on > 'creating a OOo Outlook'. People buy an IPO of $5 bucks per stock and then > a 2nd offering at $50, another at $500 and so on. You end up with $100,000 > which will pay 5 developers to work on the Outlook module connecting to > the OpenOffice.org suite. "
Not sure if I missed something but what was the business model that makes it worth investors putting in $5 per stock? Last time I looked at the UK markets it cost about $1m to get a floatation off the ground on the AIM market. For a floatation on the London Stock exchange you probably need a couple of million and need to expect to raise say 50 million with the IPO That means your marketing plan must be showing maybe 10 million or more profit a year. How do we raise that sort of revenue from an Open Source mail client - or are you saying that this module would be closed source and licensed to make the money? That would be a possibility but you still need someone with quite a lot of money initially. More likely a business angel or VC company at that stage. -- Ian Lynch www.theINGOTs.org www.opendocumentfellowship.org www.schoolforge.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
