taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) (09/11/89)
Are you a consultant? Do you ever hire consultants or contract workers
for specific assignments within your company?
Do you find that the hardest part of your job is finding people to
consult for and, conversely, finding the right consultant for the job?
Well, there is hope in the wings! LPI Publishing of Los Angeles has
recently announced that they are compiling a comprehensive catalog
of consultants in many different technical fields, for eventual
publication in book form.
The categories include the following:
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o Market Research
o Public Relations/Marketing
o Facilities Planning and Maintenance
o Training
o Hardware (Buying and Selling, Maintenance and Repair, etc)
o Software
Operating Environments
Desktop PC and Macintosh Computers
Engineering Workstations
Shared Minicomputers
Mainframes and Supercomputers
Programming Services
Product Design
Application Programming
Operating System Customization
Porting and Migration
Special Services
Quality Assurance and Release
Methodologies and Solutions
Testing Services
o Documentation
Editing Services
Translation Services
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A typical entry will probably look similar to the one I have
submitted for inclusion:
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Intuitive Systems
Specializing in user interface design, internationalization
and software marketing strategies, Intuitive Systems has
worked with many of the top corporations in the computing
industry. Intuitive Systems was founded by Dave Taylor,
well known for his work on the Unix operating system and his
insightful analysis of the computer marketplace in numerous
professional publications, including "The Sun Observer",
"The HP Chronicle", and especially through his "whatis Unix"
column in the "Computer Currents" news journal.
Intuitive Systems has many unique resources available for
projects, including expertise in the C, Pascal, Fortran, and
BASIC programming languages, expertise on Macintosh, PC and
Unix computers, and a staff of available translators
including Japanese, Chinese, French, German, Italian, and
Spanish.
Intuitive Systems
201 Ada Avenue, Suite 41, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA
telephone: 1 (415) 966-1151
email: intuitive@limbo.intuitive.com (Unix mail)
DAVE TAYLOR (MCI mail)
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If you're interested in further information about this consultants
catalog/consulting source book, please contact LPI Publishing
directly at:
LPI Publishing -- Mailstop U
6394 Smoke Tree Avenue
Agoura, CA 91301
phone: 1 (818) 889-2349 PST/PDT
email: LPI@limbo.intuitive.com (slow: phone preferred)
I have no connection with this other than that I am related to the
organizer, have made an email address available, and that I personally
plan on being listed in a couple of different sections. I do, none-
theless, encourage interested parties to contact LPI directly with
any questions...
Also, feel free to redistribute this announcement as you feel is
appropriate, including onto non-Usenet forums.
Thanks for the bandwidth, all.
-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California
taylor@limbo.intuitive.com or taylor%limbo.uucp@decwrl.dec.com
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