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Posted by Cassius
Jan 18, 2008 at 03:26 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
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>I don’t know how common knowledge this is outside the USA, so
>just in case you and others are not aware of this: It is common for US companies to
>incorporate in Delaware even though they do not reside in that state. It’s something
>to do with the laws of incorporation, I suppose. Anyway, that fact isn’t really
>relevant to the discuss, but I thought it would be of interest.
Companies that incorporate in Delaware pay no state income tax.
-c
Posted by Bob Mackreth
Jan 18, 2008 at 06:44 PM
Delaware seems to be the Liberia of American states.
Up here on the Great Lakes, it’s common to see giant ore freighters with a home port of “Wilmington, Delaware” emblazoned on their sterns. Trouble is, it would be physically impossible for these behemoths to traverse the locks of the St. Laurence Seaway and make it out to the salt water so they could actually visit their “home port” some day.
And we won’t talk about the tolls that Delaware collects on the roughly 200 yards of Interstate 95 that cross through a corner of the pint-sized state.
Posted by jamesofford
Jan 20, 2008 at 04:20 AM
Noah looks very interesting. Even though I am using a Mac at home, I am still using a PC at work, and it would be very nice to have something like Noah to help me keep all of the material related to projects together. I may give it a try.
It is quite reminiscent of Omea Pro. I had a real love/hate relationship with that program. On the love side, it allowed me to put everything that had to do with a project into a single worspace including all emails, all word files, excel files etc. And it pulled all of the information in automatically. All you had to do was dole it out to the appropriate workspace. And you could set up rules to do the parsing for you. Very slick. Alas, it was slow as molasses on my computer(A laptop, an IBM T43.)
I’m not sure about the timeline mode of organizing. Even though they have a slick interface that allows you to switch the timeframe over which you are looking, I still have trailing obligations from 2006-not many, but a few, and not having them in view could be sticky.
Also, how are they going to make money on this? I have some concern about using a program, and then getting stranded when the developers go out of business.
Still, it could be a useful tool. Anyone given it a workout yet?
Jim
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 22, 2008 at 04:39 PM
Jim wrote:
>Also, how
>are they going to make money on this? I have some concern about using a program, and then
>getting stranded when the developers go out of business.
That was one of my main concerns from the start and the next question I will be asking at the forum. Interestingly, they have already announced Noah 2.0 beta testing:
http://noahnoahnoah.com/?p=8
The new version will have web publishing capabilities, so they might be looking into a new social networking concept.
>Still, it could be a useful
>tool. Anyone given it a workout yet?
I am, though not fanatically; I find some things non-intuitive and needlesley limiting. For example, you can drag and drop document straight to the timeline, but only to the “Channel’s” Documents row, i.e. you can’t associate an external file with a specific topic/contact, only with a time and a channel.
The program consumes about 230 Mb (!) but is actually faster than I would expect for a .NET application.
alx
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 28, 2008 at 12:17 PM
For what it’s worth, I posted a question on the Noah Forum inquiring about their business model. The answer I got was:
Think Google!
alx