When kenw spoke at MyOSS Meetup, he mentioned that Exoweb focuses on fast turnaround time and getting things done for the clients with high quality. This is through a bunch of best practices that I've seen to be common amongst various large successful FOSS projects.

I've been working on that idea for Inigo as the base competitive advantage and business model for some time. Now it's starting to come together, albeit a few months too early with a potential client already deciding on the Plone platform we support. Warranty replacement time for gambit's memory is going way to slow (2 weeks more). Going to have to get another two additional replacement (expensive) 1GB DDR1 sticks this weekend to hold until the planned upgrade to a proper 4 core opteron with plenty of ECC memory from a vendor that can provide next day replacement on parts. Those upgrades are not planned until July though.

Another interesting point from kenw's talk is the fact that their company is basically an outsourced IT department and paid by time for resources. angch was actually discussing the exact same thing with me several years ago. The problem was that at the time, the company we worked for, the main clients was .gov.my and it doesn't fit with their contract model. This model however does work with with clients which gives out consultant contracts.