http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/b0e3487ef8b13eed
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/b0e3487ef8b13eed

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The services of "Lazaridis System Design" have reached pre-release state
and will be soon released to the public:

http://lazaridis.com/services/index.html

You can find the overall picture of how the services interconnect with
other company activities here:

http://lazaridis.com/pj/index.html

The target groups for the services are mainly:

  * Open Source Projects
  * Individuals and Vendors (intrested in open source projects)
  * Commercial Vendors (proprietary systems)

I would like to ask for feedback subjecting the business concept
especialy in the context of Open Source Projects.

You can reply publically or with private email.

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The initial plan is the following:

The "Initial Analysis" week has a low rate (trial rate). This is to
allow Vendors & Projects to try the services for a lower investment:

http://lazaridis.com/efficiency/graph/analysis.html

Small Scale Open Source Projects can benefit from very special prices,
which can reach 1/5th of the current rates (80% off).

If the product category is currently under review, an open source
project will be charged only a-day-for-a-week:

http://case.lazaridis.com/multi/wiki

Actual Subsystems is for following:

  * persistency systems (python, ruby)
  * complete frameworks, which contain persistency (python, ruby)
  * project hosts and collaboration tools (python, ruby)

As an example, python persistence candidates for the reduced rates would
be "Axiom", "Django" and "SQLObject":

http://case.lazaridis.com/multi/wiki/Persist

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Audits of other listed Subsystems will be charged with 2/5th of the
current rates.

Large Scale Open Source Projects and/or fully commercialized Open Source
Projects will be charged with 3/5th (actual subsystems) or 4/5th
(scheduled subsystems).

Commercial Entities and Open Source Projects not within the Subsystem
listing will be charged with 5/5ths of the rates.

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Another possibility would be to make the audits freely and to ask for a
small fee from the end-users which use the results (e.g. paypal link
within the section).

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This is a draft version and the facts and interconnections are most
possibly not demonstrated very clearly.

You feedback will assist to clarify / adjust the concept.

Thank you very much for your time.

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