Dev 356, I was going to give you a a long reasoned response but...

Dev 356, I was going to give you a a long reasoned response but you and your mates have created a haunted house which you have not interesting in exiting.

I will say I am not a Netlinkz employee, but a former coporate researcher and financial journalist with a career-long interest in logistics. I used to co-write strategy papers for the CEO of one of Austrlia's largest retailers. That brought me into contact with its it largest off-shore shareholder also a retailer and that gave me an insight into how big corportions plan and think ahead. It taught that they were very risk averse, but that personalities had a big influence and that logistics lay at the heart of everything. Marketing people were brought in for particular campaigns but were never taken too seriously but the logistics people were in-house and treated well, if not on the same plane as the management inner core.

There are perhaps a dozen reasons why you are completely on the wrong track but they boil down to understanding how cautious large companies are about any innovation, especially technology.


You and the demolition gang are expecting HC readers to believe that the World Bank doesn't have the expertise to work out whether the VSN2 is a good piece of kit or a bad one. You assume that that the large sporting goods company doesn't have 2-3000 IT staff who would quickly criticise the VSN-2 if it didn't serve the company's needs. ( I read somewhere that it has 10,000 but think that must have been a journalist's error. It is big, but can't be that big.) You don"t seem to realise that big corporates with their inner tensions about succession and huge salaries hate drawing attention to any potential vulnerability. They require non-disclosure agrements. Cyber risk is a very sensitive issue as I learnt when being given an induction. I was shown through the secret back-up computer building. It was a rare privilege, but as I was only a third tier senior executive there was only a veiled reference to the back-up to the back-up. .

You also expect HC readers to believe that the Chairman of of Netlinkz would not be acutely sensitive about being associated with the style of comany you claim it is. He is after all, the Chair of Australian Ethical, a fund with $5.4 billion under management. He has spent his entire career on the regulatory side of superannuation so almost by definition he would be a bit of stickler for proper corporate onduct. Similarly Jeff Raby, former Ambassador to China , economist and now business consultant, would not want to be associated with a blemished company, but conversely may get much qudos by association with NET's work in China, especially with the Sichuan Water Project.

I don't know either of these directors, but I do know how important reputations are.

But it works both ways. If you are a trusted supplier and a friend of the company, the reception and referrals are generous.. The same applies to countries. Netlinkz may be an obscure IT company from Australia but helping China is another thing again, especially when it comes to water or the environment.

The CP can claim amazing engineering feats but the deeply embarrasing weakness is China's environment and the state of its rivers and ground water. Like the rest of us the Chinese like blue skies and clean water.

Sichuan is a key step towards the "Eco-Civilization" ideal which keeps appearing at each Party Conference but doesn't quite make it to the top of the agenda when there are so many other problems. Not surprisngly, all Chinese would like blue skies and clean water.

It also helps that Chinese expertise has souped up the VIN into the hyper-scaleable VPN-2, but I gather it doesn't stop there.
There is a rumour of a further upgrade at another level again..

Whether this has been done in Beijing, of Bangalore or at the Patra innovation hub in Greece I have no idea, but I so see Nelinkz moving with a very clear plan once you accept that it thinks strategically, like a large corporation .

My hunch is that HC readers will be suprised at what follows.