Hi everyone;
I have approached 2ndQuadrant, Ltd about setting up a high quality
PostgreSQL services business to help diversify the voices about PostgreSQL
in South-East Asia and beyond. As a result of these negotiations, I will
be working to, among other things, increase the exposure of PostgreSQL, and
ensure that a single company does not dominate the discussion (as it
currently does over here). This is a big deal for open source generally,
and for LedgerSMB in this part of the world. This also has some
implications regarding my involvement in LedgerSMB, but I am not going
anywhere. On the whole the implications are likely to be positive, rather
than negative. On one hand, my own time constraints are likely to be a
bigger factor, but on the other hand, I expect that on the whole our
exposure will be greater, which means more room for more consultants.
In addition to working with 2ndQuadrant, I am continuing to build, with
Erik Huelsmann, the business of Efficito, Ltd, which offers LedgerSMB
hosting to a variety of customers. This business will offer general
support accounts as well but this business will not offer consulting (which
will be provided by other consultants in the community).
I see my own role in the community changing slightly. I expect to be
offering less consulting services, and work primarily upstream of other
consultants. I also expect to a larger percentage of my development time
on work which is not directly paid for by consulting customers of mine.
This means that less time will be spent on things that other consultants
can monetize and more time spent on things the software needs to grow to a
larger user base.
--
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
Efficito: Hosted Accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor
lock-in.
http://www.efficito.com/learn_more.shtml
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