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Posted by Roger Abell [MVP] on April 17, 2007, 1:09 am
Please log in for more thread options In general one will find that options 3 and 4 are not practical, as
one will not find companies willing to place in jeopardy what
they may or may not already have thought of and/or underway by
granting what is effectively a blanket NDA to cover what they
have not yet seen. One might be able to get a company to talk
but I blieve it usually does not play out that way.
Roger
> You can do one of several things
>
> 1. Go to venture capitalists and try to convince them to give you money to
> set up a real live corporation and do the dev/marketing with that money
> and company's sales staff.
>
> 2. You can set up a web site and sell the software as some sort of
> shareware solution. If your solution really is this amazing, I expect you
> will blow Winzip and thousands of other large applications that started
> out this way.
>
> 3. You can go to a company that specializes in security or Windows
> infrastructure apps and try to sell the idea to them. Get NDA agreements
> signed with them when you show it off so they can't run off with your
> idea.
>
> 4. Go to Microsoft and sell the idea to them, it is there OS and you are
> claiming that you can make it bullet proof where none of their billions of
> R&D dollars can't.
>
>
> Not to throw too much cold water on you, but I expect you don't have what
> you think you have. You might have something but the likelihood or odds of
> you having the panacea of Windows security isn't very promising given the
> billions spent on R&D for it from so many different companies. I know
> another guy who basically thought he had the answer to the world's
> security issues well at least a smaller part than you say you have an
> answer to and here we are a couple of years later and he still hasn't put
> anything useful out the door.
>
> Regardless, good luck.
>
> joe
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> --
> Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
> Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition
> www.joeware.net
>
>
> ---O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition now available---
>
> http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm
>
>
> GrapeGhost wrote:
>> I want to sell a security solution that I have designed, it makes a
>> server completely immune to viruses, security vulnerabilities, hackers
>> and it fixes 100% percent of the current security problems with windows
>> operating systems. I fully expect that in a few years every important
>> server in the world will be using some variation of my design.
>>
>> This is not just my opinion, I have shared this design with my friends
>> who are network admins and IT professionals and they have spent weeks
>> trying find some flaw in my system. All of them agree, this is truely
>> a awesome security solution. I am a computer geek and I don't know the
>> first thing about business, now that I have a awesome security solution,
>> I don't know what to do with it. I only know that I want to make some
>> serious money. If someone can help me cash-in on this, I would gladly
>> share some of the profits.
>>
>> I have been working as an IT specialist and a government contractor for
>> 12 years. In my free time I have designed a bullet-proof solution that
>> makes a windows server completely unhackable. This solution uses
>> off-the-shelf software and will run on any modern system. Just imagine
>> how much money the federal government could save by never having to patch
>> servers, purchase anti-virus, or maintain servers in any way ever again.
>> My design basically turns a windows server into a network appliance.
>> Thanks!
>>
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