Just back from Melaka. Seeing that there is only one taker - the usual suspect, so here goes..
Raja Iskandar Shah wrote: > oppss.... benefit does not necessarily mean monetary .... no worries > red1, i can help out package it. the mdec grants will be open for > application next year, so we should sit down in feb 2010 for this. > adempiere is a billion dollar economic benefit - dont be too modest > lah red1 ;-) otherwise the frenchy car companies would not be using > them. there is always a value proposition when something is used by > choice. like to adjust your take on ERP. It is not per se a product of software but 90% subject matter domain. Thus its value lies more in having a PWC or Accenture or branded Consulting powerhouse. That is what i am trying to ask for - A COE that builds such branding based on this FOSS no.1 branding. It is a long shot with many holes. Codes, yes, we can blow out SAP sky high. Look again at my analogy on fighting Microsoft. Even at a pure sourcecode layer, product vs product, Linux should have blown off MS as MS blown off. But why didn't it? Simply many reasons - social, consumerism, packaging, global play, strategy. Conclusion is that to innovate today can never be done on yesterday's formats. No two innovation is the same. Otherwise we have a murky ocean, not blue as in almost ghaib unseen before. (If difficult to imagine, then try thinking about chess.. notice how grandmasters play this ancient game in midgame?) > > one of our grants was for krim (the club) for a community solar > powered keropok lekor drying machine. benefit was local community can > dry their keropok lekor within 4 hours instead of over 2 days. target > market was keropok lekor usahawan in the kuala terengganu and marang > districts which numbered xx (cant remember) - usage is free tak > commercial pun. tapi sekarang ni underutilised - so the company is > reviewing to invest further to increase usage. also we received grants > for the solar photo-voltaic module factory which is commercial. > > the two grants that the software unit received were under peningkatan > produktiviti (not research) for eoffice (which handles our internal > claims, payroll, reservation of cars, inventory, and asset maintenance > tracking) and recently siscomm (sistem community rakyat for managing > the 40+ ict community centres in terengganu which involved translating > the spreadsheets into an online database system). in total we got > rm400k funding for both (when we applied we asked for double the > amount - hahaha, itu pun salah satu tips and we put in a matching > amount ie grant only pays 50% of the salary cost). both projects were > in terms of cost savings and productivity benefits. > > tapi tak semua grant application was approved. the most recent that > was declined was related to a proof of concept for a solar project - > we were advised to get certification for the solar panel first - which > we are currently doing. this was a technical issue - not commercial. > Of all your projects, the rejected one is exactly my taste for innovation, the rest are more of social value. Asking for certification of the solar project may deal it its death certificate. You cannot certify something new. You fail it. Precisely my point about the so called calls for Innovation and Creativity are not understood clearly by those sitting around the approval deliberation. It has to be something right, not right things. > > it is also not fair to nurhizam, rafe and ritz to 'not mention' that > you have received a little help through aeu and mdec. you need to > continue helping us so that we can help you. I have made important mention of Nurhizam as the person that gave me the turning point in my maiden book. I have allowed MDec to be well positioned in my maiden Star Intech cover story as well as opening speech at OSCON and closing in front of Dr. M. It is tit for tat well overpaid in cash and intangibly. This 'forum' is also doing Dr. M a big favour. He has preached till hoarse many things. But failed due to non-believers. Tell me how many flagships in MSC are there? Tell me how many succeed? I have met Dr Hishamudin of MedicalOnline, the Telehealth Flagship. I have met the person (forgot name) behind the chipped card. They told me of their way ahead innovation. Maybe they are bad salesmen. So again, it can boil down back to just that - bad salesmen, not bad ideas. Tell me, why did MSC throw away its brilliant slogan "Malaysia's Gift to the world", and replaced with something rather pathetic? Why did Mampu went neutral on its FOSS game in midgame? Whither now? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. 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