Hello Debian-consultants@lists ! I live in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In our small province, Linux is slowly taking its place. There is less than 10 business offering linux services. www.cegonhatech.com, www.iscream.net are the only names that comes to my mind. iScream offers Debian. Cegonha, I dont know but I guess that if a customer ask for it, they might provide service for it also. I am slowly building my own business around Debian. I choose Debian for the following obvious reason : - Vitality of the project. - the existence of the following : - bug reporting system - stable,testing,unstable - social contract - the ease required for maintaining it - they build on standards when they dont participate or create the standards (FHS,...) and finally, its biggest advantage for me, the integrator : - its rigouressness and evolutivity caracteristics (pardon my french) What I am trying to achieve, for now, is to build a business which will provide secured and stable servers for small and medium business. - Firewall - secured smtp gateway - antivirus - file server - fax server - dns - intra/extra/internet servers - database server - pbx/voip server - vpn server - jabber server - pgp key server - CA server - ... In order to be able to achieve notoriety into providing the above I will need to assure my customers that they will get support in the future from more than me. This is very important, my customers need to know that if I die, or close my business, there not stuck with a system that no one will be able to support. I am not a good business man yet. So I need all the help I can get to realize my project and the Debian Consultants list was one of the very first places where I knew I could get help in that field. In a near future, I hope to build or participate into building some sort of alliance with other Debian consulting organisations and/or individuals in order to provide a standardize way of deploying and integrating Debian. That way, I could work and help other people deploying Debian worldwide. I see myself has someone who plants trees, not tomatoes. If properly done, once a forest gets mature, it will require less or no maintenance. But building a forest requires more work at the beginning. Selling linux in Quebec is a very slow process, espacialy when you are a small startup like me (I am alone for now). But if we gather and present ourselve as a bigger organisation such has DebianINC, DebianCOOP (I don't know), which provides secured and stable Linux, which contibutes to the Debian project with donations, we might be taken more seriously, no ?. Anyway, all of this isn't clear in my mind yet, the WHY/WHAT/WHO/WHEN/HOW need to be clarify. I was keeping this information for myself for now, but because of the possibility that this list could go down I feel the urgency of such a gathering to be increased. So, anyone wanna join the debian-consultants ? Dominique Fortier Consultant en Solutions Libres www.OSNODE.com Si vous obtenez des erreurs à l'envoi de courrier à mon attention <cliquez ici> ________________________________________________________________________ (514) 939-1242 (514) 501-3296
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