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Microcap & Penny Stocks : International Nursing Services Inc, old (NURS) new (MDIX)
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To: Mike Moran who wrote (2452)1/20/1999 3:21:00 AM
From: Robert E. Winston  Read Replies (2) of 2911
 
<<Consensus: the company has a unique and near great product, a contract that means something, but no infrastructure, not even a foundation. They have no field trainers (none, zero, zip) no customer support personnel (nada, effis, nil). They have a total of 12 employees.>>

This is not necessarily as bleak as you paint it.

Many software companies are basically shells. A few programmers tied up in the basement and fed pizza and Dr Pepper intravenously plus a couple of suits upstairs to manage things.

Training and support can be contracted out. Many of the biggest companies do it. Microsoft has some 5,000 rent-a-geeks.

The last time you called a big name hardware/software company for support you very likely were talking to rent-a-geeks sitting in front of a computer with a database of Q & A's about the various products they support. This sort of thing is big business.

Another possibility is that WellPoint, which no doubt has a substantial IS staff of it's own, will do the training and support. They might even take the contract to do that for other MDIX clients.

None of that is solid info, just a demonstration that the facts can be interpreted in different ways.
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