CONTACTS 
0201 - Kossuth & Associates                 425 450 9050
020101 - Mr. Dave Kossuth

SUBJECTS
NSF Grant, Initiating, Proposal
Operating System for People & Organizations

0804 -    ..
0805 - Summary/Objective
0806 -
080601 - Follow up ref SDS 11 0000, ref SDS 2 0000.
080602 -
080603 - Received inquiry on Wednesday, ref DRT 1, which seems to be a general
080604 - canvasing for people to work on a project like Roy envisons for
080605 - Context Management, i.e., an Enterprise-wide app for the web.
080606 -
080607 - Seems coincidental the day after Roy proposes freeware and standards,
080608 - ref SDS 11 9522, someone else is out looking for people to develop
080609 - commercial-ware and standards.
080610 -
080611 - Job requires relocating to Seattle. ref DRT 1 7139
080612 -
080613 - The inquiry is from Dave Kossuth, ref DRT 1 6366, who searches for
080614 - people.
080615 -
080616 - The inquiry identifies technical skills that might be useful for Roy's
080617 - project. e.g., ref DRT 1 5670
080618 -
080619 - They are seeking management for software development, ref DRT 1 1400,
080620 - but they likely don't really know what "management" skills are, and so
080621 - will fill it with a technician or someone with PMP or MBA credentials.
080622 - The spec calls for people with maturity and experience to set new
080623 - standards.  These people are hard to find, especially in a booming
080624 - economy.  A lot of people come and go, so standards default to
080625 - whatever gets produced, and in fact the environment is so dynamic
080626 - chasing time to market, and time to profit, that no useful standard
080627 - emerges.
080628 -
080629 - These folks list XML as something they have developed and applied, as
080630 - shown at ref DRT 1 1024.  Roy cited XML among several technologies
080631 - proposed for Communication Metrics, on 990314. ref SDS 1 0406
080632 -
080633 - This inquiry shows strong commercial potential for Roy's NSF proposal,
080634 - which is an express requirement, reviewed on 990423. ref SDS 7 4557
080635 -
080636 - Looks like there may be a lot of people vying to set standards for
080637 - this capability.  How will the standards folks choose?  Will it boil
080638 - down to a race for market share going to the lowest common denominator
080639 - that provides cheap, simple stuff that doesn't help anyone, but lets a
080640 - lot of people feel they are doing something?
080641 -
080642 - Can we show in the proposal that NSF funding is needed to develop an
080643 - important dimension of Enterprise Management on the web that other
080644 - developers cannot accomplish?  The challenge is the NSF people don't
080645 - know what is needed, either.  They have not heard of "intelligence,"
080646 - ref OF 1 5884, and so will assume the market is producing useful stuff
080647 - because investors are paying to produce it.
080648 -
080649 - Seems tricky.
080650 -
080651 - Submitted ref DIT 1 to Roy for comment.
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