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From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Yes, it's me again, looking for FreeBSD-aware consultants in odd
corners of the world!

We have been quite successful selling our hardware and services to the
Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) in Japan.  I can't tell you a
lot about CRL, but if you are or know the sort of person I'm looking for
then you will know them already 8)

CRL recently installed one of our systems at Wakkanai, in the north of
the country.  CRL appear to have a fairly extensive internal network,
but their actual in-house Unix knowledge appears to be fairly scanty,
or at least well-distant from the section(s) that we are dealing with.

At the field site where our equipment is located, they installed a
Linux system to provide dialin facilities (for some unknown reason).
The technician responsible for this apparently took about a day to get
it set up, and we still have problems with it.  (Not to mention that
you login as 'root' when you dial in. Aigh!)  Obviously that sort of
thing is not at all helpful from our point of view.

Now that the system is settling in, the scientists using it are
starting to ask for more stuff, some of which we can manage over a
slow link including three waypoints, a slow modem link and a Linux
box, and some which would really benefit from personal attendance;
eg. installation of extra software, printer configuration, integration
with their WAN etc.

We would like to be able to refer our customers within CRL to someone
a little closer to home that is capable of this sort of work.  I have
every reason to believe that they are quite happy to pay for that sort
of support, and we have every expectation of doing more business with
CRL which might well mean more work there.

In addition, we have other work in progress with Japanese customers on
sites as widely spread as Pontianak (Indonesia) and Syowa Base
(Antarctica), so a willingness to travel might be handy 8)

If you think that you or your organisation or some other that you know
would be interested in this sort of work, I'd like to hear from you
about it.  Obviously, you'll have to convince us that you can be
trusted before we let you loose on our customers 8)

Regards,
-- 
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