<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Marc,<br>I'd be interested in hearing more of how your group<br>of individuals and companies presents itself as a<br>single entity. How do the separate players within<br>this group decide who will take on a particular <br>project? I guess if plates are laden over there,<br>there's enough work to go around?<br><br>I'd be interested in seeing such a "virtual company"<br>form from participants in N. America (to the extent<br>that it really matters WHERE people are, because<br>virtual companies can conduct business in a<br>"virtual office"?)<br><br>I don't sense that the big institutional end-users in<br>the US are thinking open-source to the extent<br>that clients outside the US are. And is open-source<br>on the radar of large integrators in the US?<br><br>Robert<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px;
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<style>#yiv876549057 {font:10pt Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;}</style><br>... ... In the Netherlands I have co-initiated a group of individual specialists and companies who will be able to contract as a single entity. ...<br><br>... With the booming market in my environment the plates are laden. ... This seems to be the case in The Netherlands, where large integrators are invited for the bigger tenders. Once won, they subcontract most of the technical work to the small OS GIS contractors for a pittance. ...<br><br><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>