[kictanet] Commodity Exchange System

[robert yawe]

Hi,

It is unfortunate that we are already coming up with excuses for why we cannot 
deliver on this but most unfortunate is that you of all people could thorugh 
such a large spanner into the works yet your product has received funding with 
little or not field testing.

We all buy tenders and spend many hours completing our responses yet we do not 
get paid for such activities, what is so difficult with making a pitch?  I 
thought we are in the information age where a young graduate only needs a 
computer and internet connection to make it big.

Lets for once stop being typical Kenyans and think of Bill Gates walking into 
the IBM offices to sell MS-DOS.

Regards

PS. Another posting like this and I go off to freelance.com & partner with 
positive thinking developers, the world has become a village. Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya


Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696




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From: Agosta Liko <agostal at gmail.com>
To: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Tue, 21 September, 2010 14:38:37
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Commodity Exchange System

Robert.

We usually don't get those contracts because the buying bodies prefer
to get software that's tried / tested / proven .... and rightly so.

The way I look at this - as a manager, if I was to choose between a
local vendor who would have to develop from scratch and a foreign
vendor whose solution is running lets say 30 clients .... I would pick
the foreign vendor 99 out of 100 times.

Its all about risk ... and as we all know "No one ever got fired for
buying IBM" ( http://bit.ly/amN6sl )


      
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