From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ed Wildgoose Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:02:21 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] Considering starting business to support Linux QOS Message-Id: <41C043ED.9020000@wildgooses.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Hi all, I find the whole QOS area quite fascinating and I'm considering starting a small business to try and push QOS solutions in general to small and medium sized businesses. I would of course be happy to push Packeteer and Cisco kit to those who want it, but to be honest the product of choice from a cost and functionality point of view seems to be linux I would appreciate any feedback from those who already either run businesses doing this kind of thing, or perhaps just folks who contract in this area generally. I am quite naive when it comes to selling this kind of thing, and have always worked for big businesses directly before (have never even contracted): - What kind of issues am I likely to face? - What did you find to be the most productive form of advertising? - Did you find it difficult to show the customer what they are buying? (It's not a common product at the moment?) - With packeteer and Cisco charging such rediculous prices, is there a ready market for products based more on a time and materials basis than an annual rental fee? I'm going to be working in London and the South of London so I imagine I won't be treading on the toes of most of the list! Thanks Ed W _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/