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Launching the Knowledge Seven Ltd website

28 November 2008 By Avinash Meetoo 33 Comments

Dear all, I am extremely delighted to launch the website of my brand new company, Knowledge Seven Ltd, which provides quality Linux and Open Source consultancy, support and training in Mauritius.

Visit us at:

www.knowledge7.com

Filed Under: Education, Linux, Mauritius, News, Technology, Web

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  1. deven says

    28 November 2008 at 17:15

    Nice to hear that! Bon vent

  2. deven says

    28 November 2008 at 17:15

    btw why that name?

  3. Raj says

    28 November 2008 at 17:35

    Best of luck for your new company.

    Raj

  4. carrotmadman6 says

    28 November 2008 at 18:09

    Re-check the url – it’s http://www.knowlegde7.com

    :P

    Congrats & best wishes for your brand new company.

    Btw any relation with… Windows 7? ;)

  5. Sailesh says

    28 November 2008 at 19:42

    Thats great :) your site design is very nice & simple
    Concerning your company i would say its a great initiative you have done :)

  6. Asvin Balloo says

    28 November 2008 at 19:44

    Congrats ;-)

    BTW, there’s a small typo error, http://www.knowleGDe7.com

  7. Ajay R Ramjatan says

    28 November 2008 at 21:12

    Let me be among the first to congratulate you on the launching!

  8. avinash says

    28 November 2008 at 22:48

    Thanks for pointing out the typo.

    In fact, the name Knowledge Seven has been chosen because (i) I wanted to have something with Knowledge in it (2) I wanted to have a simple .com domain and (3) only knowledge7.com was free (knowledge.com as well as knowledge1 up to knowledge9 are all taken.) In a way, it’s kind of random but 7 is a nice number nevertheless…

    And I don’t think Knowledge 7 has anything to do with Windows 7. Rather it has a lot to do Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and Centos) 5.2 which, when added, gives 7 :-)

  9. avinash says

    28 November 2008 at 22:50

    Sorry I forgot :-(

    Thanks to all of you for your best wishes. I don’t know if my business endeavour will work out or not but I had to try… But I’m confident.

    By the way, don’t hesitate to contact me if you need my services :-)

  10. Yashvin says

    29 November 2008 at 00:18

    Bon courage and good luck!

  11. fluxy says

    29 November 2008 at 03:04

    Hey sounds great. I was wondering what you were upto since that post on entrepreneurs ;)

    Your linux courses sound good – formal apprenticeship and certification can’t be bad, more details would be appreciated though (cost, duration, distro, certification body – importance, your infrastructure…etc).

    The website design itself is quite good, although something other than text would be cool.

    Anyway, wish you a lot of success – a breath of fresh air would be definitely great in that cyber island.

    I’m looking forward to seeing how you fare on this journey – a techie startup in mru – two bold geekish adventurers, keyboards on their backs set on a daunting quest to conquer the cyberspace lol. Your success (if so it turns out to be) will inspire many.

  12. Jeshan says

    29 November 2008 at 09:37

    Very nice… best of luck..

  13. Tushal says

    29 November 2008 at 11:55

    And Avinash you can charged your readers at a special discounted price.
    10% more than the normal rates.^_^

    Good luck with the company.May it be a great success.

    Perhaps, I will turn towards you to learn linux..:p

    Cheers,
    Tushal

  14. avinash says

    29 November 2008 at 15:42

    Thanks!

    Don’t worry about the content of the website. It will be enhanced over the next days. I intend to beef it up with more text as well as 1-2 relevant images to make it more appealing.

  15. vicks says

    29 November 2008 at 20:03

    Maybe knowledgeX.com?

    anyway all the best to you and your company. :)

  16. Vishal says

    30 November 2008 at 01:52

    May the force b wiv ya!

    P.S : thought bout offering online services?

  17. Patrick Ng says

    30 November 2008 at 07:18

    Congratulations!

    There’s one thing missing though: price. Most people, when visiting a web site, expect to find as much information as possible on the site itself.

  18. fluxy says

    30 November 2008 at 07:25

    I was thinking of something the other day.
    I recently bought a new pc, and chose not to have any pre-installed OS. I thought maybe later I’ll get a genuine (no I’d rather not use warez, I pirate because I cannot afford licenses, but when I can I’d rather buy) vista license, but then realised that the Home Basic license costs Rs.3000+ and does not even include Aero – this is included in home premium Rs. 5000+. There’s no way am buying any of these. So I ended up with ubuntu (main os – Compiz rocks) and windows xp (for games), in dual boot.

    My idea is, many mauritians do not realise how much they could save if they do not purchase a MS Windows license and instead used ubuntu (or any other linux distro) – instead of a genuine license you can get a better video card / hard disk / etc! Vendors also are reluctant to adopt it because of support.

    Perhaps there is room here for a company *wink* *wink* to step in and propose such services to vendors – say a one year support voucher and perhaps 50% discount on training?

    Just an idea here – it is already being done abroad with canonical providing support – perhaps it could work here?

  19. avinash says

    30 November 2008 at 07:58

    To Patrick:

    I’m slowly adding more information (including pricing.)

    To fluxy:

    You are correct in saying that companies require professional-level services. That’s the whole point of me setting up Knowledge Seven Ltd :-)

  20. fluxy says

    30 November 2008 at 09:31

    @Avinash
    Of course. What I mean is not only for companies. Why not sell support vouchers to hardware vendors (any IT retailer), for say Rs. 1500-2000? You provide them with a copy of the distribution to install. They preload it for their customers (Home end-user). If the customer requires assistance, he/she can contact your company directly. The voucher may be valid for a year, after which it can be renewed. The offer could include other services (mauritan based repositories/ new packages on cd’s/distro upgrades).

    I know you will be mostly aiming for the corporate world, which is absolutely logical, still the proposition is not so bad. While corporate world represent a market with more money, the Linux Home User market is still an untapped one, and has potential for growth, given the high prices of Microsoft products and the need for a viable alternative.

  21. #€|!0$ says

    30 November 2008 at 10:46

    That’s a nice move… ;)
    Best of luck… Hope to get more information about Open Source Software as well… :)

  22. avinash says

    30 November 2008 at 18:33

    Thanks fluxy. I’ll give that a thought.

  23. Ashesh says

    30 November 2008 at 20:22

    Congrats for the initiative and best of luck with the entrepreneurial spirit.

    I am eager to know what are the marketing strategies (if any) that the company intends to take and what is its target market?

  24. avinash says

    1 December 2008 at 09:51

    Target markets:

    – Consultancy: companies with mission-critical applications.
    – Support: companies already using Linux.
    – Training: anyone interested.

    As Knowledge Seven Ltd is a new company, its marketing strategy will have, on the one hand, to establish its brand name and reputation, and on the other hand, to nurture the brand for long-term development. This is why we will develop a two-fold strategy, namely intensive customer acquisition in order to launch and sustain the company’s activities (direct marketing, media, web), and also intelligent customer retention programmes.

  25. selven says

    1 December 2008 at 22:17

    sorry to be among the late ones to say congrats[ been out camping]

    Congrats :p seeing that you’ve got quite a great program set up.

  26. carriad says

    2 December 2008 at 08:48

    Well Done ! Good cruising and surf high !

    All the best

  27. Kurt Avish says

    2 December 2008 at 15:28

    Best of luck for your new company.

  28. Vincent L'Ecluse says

    4 December 2008 at 14:30

    Good luck. Hope to maybe one day follow some courses with it.

  29. Emmerdeur says

    19 December 2008 at 00:31

    So, how’s company going..
    Don’t forget next month you have to pay your Rs2,000 Annual License Fee :) as from the 3rd of January

    http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/compdivsite/menuitem.e24cd2cc6b820a052eada810f6b521ca/?content_id=5153443e1d78f010VgnVCM1000000a04a8c0RCRD

  30. Emmerdeur says

    19 December 2008 at 00:33

    it sucks because if someone registered his company on the 30th of December, he still has to pay for that fee the coming month..and if we waited for 4 more days he wouldn’t have!!
    that’s ridiculous!!!

  31. avinash says

    19 December 2008 at 07:11

    Yeah. So many things to pay. But that’s the name of the game for all companies so I can’t really do anything about it :-)

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