Why a franchising system?
Unix has traditionally been marketed via the VAR franchising approach, because it has the most rapid growth potential and can be partially self financed. Also the nature of software contract outsourcing combined with R&D engineering services lends itself to the program-office/matrix approach of the aerospace industry, adapted to the web-VPN Internet capability of immediate point-to-point consulting. PROSE consulting via mentored application spawning was successful in the rudimentary networking of 30-cps teletypes. This plan is an advanced evolution of that approach.
