Bioinformatics commercial opportunities

• Possiblity of developing a commercial enterprise involving the provision of technical support and training in the setting up of open source project/content management systems.
  • Possible clients:
    • Businesses (e.g., companies trading in something tangible).
    • Research-based institutes (e.g., CRIs, universities).

- internal wiki, internal web portal (e.g., plone, mambo, monotone, joomla, R etc). Open source operating system, Ubuntu. Remote technical support using open source VNC, and Skipe.

Selling feature : Make use of tried and tested open source software already out there to minimize software licensing costs. All content is managed in an open source document management framework, including semi-automated scripts allowing reinstallation of software with comprehensive documentation (using ActivePerl).