Hi,

After months of intensive planning, Softwaremaker.Net Private Limited is finally incorporated. I am working on a few turn-key projects for now. Due to limited time and resources, I may have to move up the value-ladder soon. However, turn-key projects do offer a viable source of revenue for the company and I may look to hiring people for my company on a part-time or freelance basis. In moving up to provide value-added services, I have my eye on this project where I work with a Math Algorithm company to help them develop a skin around their engine and then jointly help them sell the engine to the financial industry here. Currently this same engine is being used by the major Supply-Chain Management systems globally with huge success. Everyone hears of the SAPs and the Oracles, but its these little-known systems that provide the intelligent engines to power their databases and systems.

My website has been revamped and it has a more professional look and feel to it. Underneath this website is a web-content database which I have developed on my own. Some people have shown an interest in it although I feel that it has not reached commercial quality yet. The website also incorporates the W3C standards of Style-Sheets, XML, XSL and XHTML for its contents and customized applications and ultimately, its scalability and extensibility. Although the site is not fully completed yet, it is fully functional. Please browse through it when you are free and let me know what you think. You can send your feedback to me via the site's Internal Direct Email Service or its SMS Messaging Capabilities which are all available thru the Contact page on the content menu. This site is currently optimized for IE5 and above. Certain pages that incorporates the latest XML technologies will work only in IE6. Why not Netscape ? Well, it seems to me that the company is slow to adopt the W3C standards of XML. Their latest Navigator Browsers still do NOT support XML. I have no idea why but I think they are killing themselves instead by focusing their efforts on suing Microsoft and the likes where they can be more productive developing more standards-based browsers. Let the market decide, I always believe. IE is winning the browser war with a whopping 91% of the browser market with Netscape and the likes taking the rest (stats as of Jan 02). However, to satisfy the Netscape hardcores, I will design a Netscape optimized version of my site soon.

Have a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year and may this year bring you lots of Joy and Happiness. Gong Xi Fa Chai !!!