As an individual, I had acquired some great technology, a proprietary web addressing system that operates in the web's biggest market segment, sports. However, I could not interest anyone in programming it for me, at least not for less than a quarter of a million dollars.

I turned with some hesitation to Novosoft. I had heard a lot about Siberia, and none of it involved programming skills. However, I created a test job for them to price. The price was reasonable so I figured, what did I have to lose? I turned over my specs to them.

Within a week one of their programmers was talking to me on ICQ, the free messaging system Novosoft uses to conduct business worldwide. After the first week I knew I had someone that not only understood what my business was about, I had a mock-up of what my website would look like. SportSnort.com emerged, the site I had envisioned, but one with a slew of innovations that were the result of my collaboration with Novosoft's programmers.

Within months, I had my website for under $5,000. However, Novosoft's contribution to SportSnort did not stop there. I operate out of Washington D.C. During the period the site was being developed, SportSnort had incorporated and established offices in Dallas, Texas. It had contracted to locate its servers in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Novosoft oversaw the set up and loading of the servers and participated in the load testing (accomplished with zero code rewrites). When we had to fire our Webmaster in Dallas for security reasons, Novosoft's programmers created a program that limited what our Webmaster could do and allowed Novosoft to oversee what our Webmaster did.

Of course, Novosoft thinks of its programmers as its employees, but as far as SportSnort is concerned, they are full time employees of SportSnort.com, Inc. Whether I am initiating new features for the website out of Washington, our Webmaster is having problems in Dallas, or we need to program our computers in North Carolina, Novosoft is there, not looking over our shoulder, but in front of us, working, while we look over Novosoft's shoulder.

And with one group in all three places doing one job, our job, there are no communications mix-ups.

Peter Bros
President Sportsnort.com, Inc.
e-mail: bros@sportsnort.com

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