Greetings,
On 12/27/10, Shuvam Misra shuvam.misra@merceworld.com wrote:
Dear Raj,
As always, very sensible points.
Personally, I am not sure it'll work, because I feel that the customer has to have more than a minimum level of maturity to make use of such an offering, and IMHO the Indian IT services/solutions customer does not have that maturity, in most cases. He'll want a single umbrella organisation and a single contract. But I was just wondering -- what do you all think?
If fact that is exactly what I had in mind. Single logging. Single contact. Work starts immediately after a token payment of say INR 200-500. Of course the amount is a fictitious amount and can be crystallized after due diligence.
I have no doubt about the customer's maturity level. They are paying some entity anyway without getting any kind of assurance.
I was also thinking what it would take the various FLOSS centres / IT Labs / IT departments / IT Support groups in various companies to subscribe to become one of the service hubs for a beginning.
Of course not to mention quarterly seminars for relating the war stories (and the eating thereafter)
Not to mention the eternal requirement of students wanting projects will be automatically met.
Now the issue is about legalities. What if the idea catches up in the west which will necessitate compliance of various financial and legal regulatories.
What should be the form of such umbrella organization?
Regards,
Rajagopal