--- gcc/SERVICE 2018/04/24 17:51:28 1.1 +++ gcc/SERVICE 2018/04/24 18:25:57 1.1.1.8 @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -GNU Service Directory -*- text -*- + -*- text -*- +GNU Service Directory +--------------------- This is a list of people who have asked to be listed as offering support services for GNU software, including GNU Emacs, for a fee @@ -28,96 +30,101 @@ non-GNU-related proprietary information) mention your availability for general consulting, but you should not promote a specific unrelated business unless the client asks. -Please include some indication of your rates, because otherwise -users have nothing to go by. +Please include some indication of your rates, because otherwise users +have nothing to go by. Please put each e-mail address inside "<>". +Please put nothing else inside "<>". Thanks! For a current copy of this directory, or to have yourself listed, ask: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu -** Please keep this file alphabetical ** +** Please keep the entries in this file alphabetical **  -Joseph Arceneaux -PO Box 460633 +Joseph Arceneaux +PO Box 460633 http://www.samsara.com/~jla San Francisco, CA 94146-0633 ++1 415 648 9988 +1 415 285 9088 -FSF Staff Programmer. Performed X11 implementation of Emacs version 19. -Currently working on hypertext emacs. +Recently led the project making Wells Fargo Bank the first to provide +secure customer account access over the Internet. -Service and development of GNU and X11 software. Handholding, teaching, -and installations at lower rates. +Former FSF staffmember. Performed X11 implementation of Emacs version +19, designed and implemented WYSIWYG Emacs. Installed and +administered FSF network. Maintainer of GNU indent. Over 15 years +experience with Unix and other systems, from writing ROM monitors to +UI design and system administration. + +I provide installation, porting, debugging and customization or +development of GNU and other Unix software. I also design and +implement free software projects and consult on software engineering +and systems design. Handholding and teaching services are also +available as well as things like LAN and compute--infrastructure design. + +Time and material rates around $150 USD per hour, depending upon the +particular job. I am also very interested in fixed-bid jobs. For +selected non-profit organizations with worthy goals, I work for free. + +Updated: 17Oct95 + +Gerd Aschemann +Osannstr. 49 +D-64285 Darmstadt +Tel.: +49 6151 16 2259 +http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~ascheman/ + +- System Administrator (UNIX) at CS Department, TU Darmstadt, Germany +- 15 years expirience with CS, Systemadministration on different platforms +- 8 years with UNIX/Networking/FreeWare/GNU/X11 +- 6 years organizer of Operating Systems and Distributed Systems courses +- Lectures on System and Network Administration +- Platforms: Solaris, SunOS, Ultrix, OSF1, HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD, AIX +- Experience with parallel environments (Connection Machine, Meiko, Parsytec) +- Consultant for other UNIX users at TU Darmstadt -Rates: $150/hour. Free to non-profits. +Rates are at 100,-- DM (~60 US$) per hour minimum, depending on the job. +I am willing to travel for sufficiently large jobs. -Updated: 11/7/91 +Updated: 17Oct95  Giuseppe Attardi Dipartimento di Informatica Corso Italia 40 I-56125 Pisa, Italy -+39 (50) 510-111 ++39 50 887-244 GNU: help on obtaininig GNU, for italian sites. -Updated: 18/11/91 +Updated: 5Apr94  -Randolph Back -Back Software & Consulting, Inc. -1705 14th St. #344 -Boulder, CO 80302 -(303) 443-7758 +James Craig Burley +97 Arrowhead Circle +Ashland, MA 01721-1987 +508 881-6087, -4745 +(Please call only between 0900-1700 Eastern time, and only if you +are prepared to hire me -- ask me to help you for free only +via email, to which I might or might not respond.) +Email: --preferred-- + + + +Expertise: + Compiler Internals (author of GNU Fortran, for example) + Operating Systems Internals + Tools/Utilities Development and Maintenance + Microcode Development and Maintenance (primarily VLIW machines) + System Design (computers, operating systems, toolsets, &c) + Debugging (often asked to help debug Other People's Code) + Documentation (authored many books and ran a few doc projects) + Extensive experience with a variety of operating systems, hardware, + languages, and so on -Consulting, installation, cutomization and training for GNU emacs, and -other GNU software. +Rate: $70/hour -- willing to consider flat-fee arrangements -Entered: 3/13/91 - -Andrea Baldi -European Space Agency (ESA) -European Space Operations Center (ESOC) -Robert-Bosch-Str 5 -D-6100 DARMSTADT -West-Germany -Phone 0049-6151-902762 (Work) Bitnet : -Fax 0049-6151-90-495 Uucp : - -Your Rate: Free - -Programs Supported: Emacs, bison, gcc, g++, gdb, bash, X11 - Emacs: installation and upgrading aid, answering, customization. - Gcc, g++, gdb, bash: installation and upgrading aid. - X11: quick questions - -Experience (with gnu software) - I have maintained Emacs for more than 4 years as well as bison, gcc, - g++, gdb, bash, X11. I have written/modified several Emacs lisp programs. - Currently I maintain many GNU programs for my department. - -Updated: 11 Sept 91 - - Bard Bloom - Department of Computer Science - Cornell University - Ithaca, NY 14850 - 607-255-9211 - -Your Rate: $200/hour. - I might do work for friends and worthy organizations for free. - -Programs Supported: GNU Emacs - -Experience: Lots. For example, in 1989 I wrote a safe multi-user - database program of sorts in Gnu Emacs in about a week. - I've written some 30,000 lines of Gnu Lisp code in total. - -Degree: PhD in CS from MIT. -Other: My real life as a professor takes precedence over consulting. - -Updated: 11 Sept 91 +Updated: 14Aug95  Michael I. Bushnell -NE43-426, 545 Technology Square +545 Technology Square, NE43-426 Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 253-8568 @@ -131,157 +138,148 @@ Experience: I have done Unix and GNU pr I am easily available in the Cambridge/Boston area; work via email. I am willing to travel for sufficiently large jobs. -Rates: $50/hr, negotiable, less for non-profit organizaions. +Rates: $100/hr, negotiable, less for non-profit organizaions. -Updated: 10/29/91 +Updated: 5Apr94  C2V Renaud Dumeur -82 bd Haussmann Jean-Alain Le Borgne -75009 Paris +82 bd Haussmann Michel Delval +75009 Paris Jean-Alain Le Borgne France Tel (1) 40.08.07.07 Fax (1) 43.87.35.99 -Emacs: questions answered, installation, teaching (all levels), elisp - and C extensions and customization, porting, troubleshooting -gcc: installation, extensions, porting -gdb: installation, debugging, porting -X11: installation, debugging, internationalization - -Experience: yes (ask for details) +We offer source or source+binary distribution, installation, training, +maintenance, technical support, consulting, specific development and +followup on the GNU software development environment: Emacs, gcc/g++, +binutils, gas, gdb. + +Experience: adapted gcc, gas and binutils to work as cross-development +tools for the Thomson st18950 DSP chip: GCC parser and typing system +have been augmented to allow the manipulation of variables located in +separated memory spaces. Porting on new platforms, and professionally +developing software with the GNU tools in the Unix/X11 environment +since they were first available. + +Rates: from 2000 FF/day to 150 000 FF/year, 40% discount for +educational institutions, add taxes and expenses. Ask for list. + +Entered: 5May94 + +Contributed Software +Graefestr. 76 +10967 Berlin, Germany +phone: (+49 30) 694 69 07 +FAX: (+49 30) 694 68 09 +modems: (+49 30) 694 60 55 (5xZyXEL ) +modems: (+49 30) 693 40 51 (8xUSR DS) +email: +internet: uropax.contrib.de [192.109.39.2], login as 'guest'. + +We distribute, install, port, teach and support free software +in general, i.e. X11, GNU, khoros etc. Rates are ECU 80,-- plus +tax per hour. We offer maintenance and support contracts for full +customer satisfaction. +Highlights are transparent development environments for multi-platform +sites and configuration management. Traveling is no problem. + +Free Archive login for downloading on above modem numbers. + +Updated: 5Apr94 + +Stuart Cracraft +25682 Cresta Loma +Laguna Niguel, Ca. +92677 +GNUline: 714-347-8106 +Rate: $75/hour +Consultation topics: + Entire GNU suite - porting, compilation, installation, + user-training, administrator-training +Method: telephone line support, call-in via modem to your site, +or direct visit. + +Experience: supporting GNU since the mid-1980's, coordinator +of GNU Chess (original author), GNU Shogi, GNU Go. Ported GNU Emacs +to Solaris (System V Release 4). Expertise in C, Emacs Lisp, and Perl. +Customized programming also available. -Rates: 500ff/hr, negotiable. - -Entered: 12/17/91 - -Mr. David J. Camp -6103 Charlotte Avenue -Saint Louis, MO 63120-1201 - -Background: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Washington University - Master of Science in Computer Science, Washington University - Over 12 years experience in the computer industry. - Author of the future GNU uu/xxen/decoder program. - Skilled in many languages, including C and Unix scripts. - -Tasks: I can do on-site service in the St. Louis area. - I prefer short-term projects. - I can handle long projects given time. - I reserve the right to refuse work. - -Rates: $50 per hour, including travel time - -Entered: 1/1/91 +Entered: 5Apr94  Cygnus Support -814 University Avenue ...uunet!cygint!info -Palo Alto, CA 94301 -+1 415 322 3811 Voice -+1 415 322 3270 FAX - -Cygnus Support offers warranty protection (service contracts) for a -number of free software tools. For a fixed annual fee our customers -receive binary and source distributions, mail and phone support, -documentation and customization assistance on a variety of popular -platforms. - -At the time of this writing we offer support for a development package -including (among other things) gcc, g++, gdb, and of course, GNU -Emacs. We also offer support for a network facilities package -including many of the Athena tools like Kerberos and Hesiod. However -the set of supported tools and platforms increases frequently so -contact us for the latest information. - -For those who need on-site assistance, support is also available from -our Cambridge office. - -Rates: $300/hour. Annual Support starts at $35,000. - -Updated: 11 Sept 91 - -Bradley N. Davis -3242 South 540 West -Bountiful, UT 84010 -(801) 298-6345 - -Will work on most GNU software. Especially GNU Emacs, GCC and a -little X11 and G++. Experienced with PCs and 386s. - -Services offered: Installation, porting, customizing, troubleshooting. - -Fee: $20 to $50 / hour depending on job - -Updated: 6/11/91 - -DePalma SoftCraft Contact: Mauro DePalma -2923 Cohansey Drive Voice: (408) 259-4789 -San Jose, CA 95132-1619 Fax: (408) 259-6935 - Internet: (or ) - -DePalma SoftCraft provides distribution, installation, setup, and -support for the X Window System (X11R4). - -This small business provides consulting in every area of a computer -s/w project life cycle. We specialize in UNIX, GNU Development Tools -(gcc, g++, ...), RCS, and XView. - -Updated: 4/29/91 - -Equivalent Software HB -Repslagaregatan 34 or -582 22 Linkoping -SWEDEN -+46 (0)13 13 54 21 - -Equivalent Software HB is the worlds second(?) company dedicated to -supporting free UNIX software. The owners have more than 5 years of -UNIX experience, both as system adminstrators and programmers. We -also have extensive experience in maintaining the GNU programs, both -administrating it and fixing bugs. - -Services offered: - - - Installation and custumizing GNU and other free software. We will - make free software as easy to install and use as shrink wrapped - programs. - - Customization and porting. - - Subscriptions to new versions which we will send monthly or with - any other interval. - - Finding, Recommending and Investigation of free software in any - area of the customers choise. - - Regular consulting. We prefer smaller jobs, but are willing to - consider larger ones. We can work through the Internet, but prefer - jobs in Sweden. - -Rates: For software items, request our price list. - For consulting, 450 SEK/hour. - -Entered: 2/14/92 - -Andy Gaynor -- [Ag] -597 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854 -908-463-3376 - -GNU Emacs: - Lisp development, customization, troubleshooting, support, etc - User instruction and management for all levels of experience - Umpteen-thousand lines of Lisp code, careful study of GNU Emacs organization, - years of monitoring the UseNet Emacs and GNU groups, etc - Version 19 is due soon -- I will be up-to-speed as quickly as possible - $50/hour starting, negotiable on difficulty, organization, distribution, etc - -Other Tasks: - General programming/software engineering (language software preferred) - Familiar with Unix, C, Lisp, networking, standard Unix utilities, various - other languages, etc - Contact me for more info - -Entered: 10 Feb 92 - -Ron Guilmette -396 Ano Nuevo Ave. #216 -Sunnyvale, CA 94086 -408-732-7839 +1937 Landings Drive ...uunet!cygint!info +Mountain View, CA 94043 USA ++1 415 903 1400 voice ++1 415 903 0122 fax + +Cygnus Support +48 Grove Street +Somerville, MA 02144 ++1 617 629 3000 voice ++1 617 629 3010 fax + +Cygnus Support continues to provide supported, maintained versions of +the GNU toolset including GCC, G++, the GNU debugger with graphical +user interface, GNU linker, GNU macro-assembler and Emacs 19. In +keeping with the rapidly advancing needs of software developers, +Cygnus maintains a 90 day release cycle of the GNU toolset. Each +release is regression tested and includes substantial improvements and +additions to the existing matrix of over 65 supported platform +configurations. + +Updated: 2Feb95 + +Free Software Association of Germany +Michaela Merz +Heimatring 19 +6000 Frankfurt/Main 70 +phone: (+49 69) 6312083) +ert : (+49-172-6987246) +email: (info@elara.fsag.de) + +Supporting all kinds of freeware (i.e. GNU), freeware development, consulting, +training, installation. Special LINUX support group. + +RATES: + +Companies and for profit +organizations : 100 US$ / hour +Private and not-for-profit +organizations : 40 US$ / hour +ert (24h Emergency +response team) : 300 US$ / hour + +Entered: 14Apr94 + +Noah Friedman +Building 600, Suite 214 2002-A Guadalupe St. #214 +One Kendall Square Austin, TX 78705 +Cambridge, MA 02139 (Local, faster to reach me) +(Permanent) + + +Author of several Emacs Lisp packages and parts of Emacs 19, as well as +numerous utilities written in shell script and perl. Co-maintained GNU +Texinfo and Autoconf for a couple of years. System administrator for a +network of heterogenous machines. FSF employee Feb 1991--Sep 1994. + +I can perform installation, porting, and enhancement of all GNU software +and any other free software; system administration for unix-type systems +and ethernet networks; and I am willing to teach shell programming and +Emacs Lisp. + +Fees negotiable, averaging $60-$75/hour. I can work in the Austin, TX area +or anywhere accessible on the Internet. For larger jobs I may be willing +to travel. + +Updated: 16Aug95 + +Ronald F. Guilmette +Infinite Monkeys & Co. +1751 East Roseville Pkwy. #1828 +Roseville, CA 95661 +Tel: +1 916 786 7945 +FAX: +1 916 786 5311 Services: Development & porting of GNU software development tools. @@ -293,418 +291,313 @@ GNU Contributions: of Dwarf symbolic debugging information for System V Release 4 in GCC2. - Finished GCC2 port to the Intel i860 RISC processor. + Performed original port of GNU compilers to SVr4 system. - Now developing GDB code for System V Release 4 support of - ELF and Dwarf. + Finished port of GNU compilers to Intel i860 RISC + processor. -Experience: 9+ years UNIX systems experience, all working on compilers +Experience: 13+ years UNIX systems experience, all working on compilers and related tools. - 3+ years working professionally on GCC, G++, and GDB under + 7+ years working professionally on GCC, G++, and GDB under contract to various firms including the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Data General (DG), Network Computing Devices (NCD), and Intel Corp. Other qualifications: - Holder of both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree, both in - Computer Science. - - Observer Member of ANSI X3J16 (C++ standardization) committee. + Developer of the RoadTest (tm) C and C++ commercial + compiler test suites. Former vice-chairman of UNIX International Programming Languages Special Interest Group (UI/PLSIG). + Bachelor's and a Master's degrees, both in Computer Science. + Rates: Variable depending upon contract duration. Call for quote. -Updated: 9 Feb 92 +Updated: 23Sep95  -Johannes M. Heuft -Pfarrweg 2c -D-8000 Munich 90 -Germany -Telephone: Germany+89/681773 - -Rate: min. DM 180.- ($ 120.-) per hour - interesting tasks for non-profit organisations may be free - -Supported Programs: gcc, gas, g++, gdb, binutils, gnuplot, ...; (not emacs) - -Experience: 10 years of operating system, network, and compiler - construction; also includes engineering management. +Hundred Acre Consulting +1155 W Fourth St Ste 225 +PO Box 6209 +Reno NV 89513-6209 +(702)-348-7299 +Hundred Acre is a consulting group providing support and development +services to organizations of all sizes. We support GNU C++ and C in +particular, but also provide support for all other GNU software and +certain non-GNU public domain software as well. We work on a "service +contract" basis for support -- for a yearly fee, we provide multiple +levels of email and toll free telephone support, and free updates and +bug fixes. The highersupport levels have on-site support. Development +is charged on either an hourly or fixed bid basis. + +Consulting rates: $70 to $90 per hour, or fixed bid. +Support contracts: Several levels, from $495 to $90000 per year. + +Updated: 27Dec94 + +Interactive Information Limited + +Interactive Information Limited is an Edinburgh-based company that +specialises in WWW services and support for using the Internet for +marketing. + +Our staff have many years experience in using, and developing lisp packages +within, Emacs, and in using other GNU/Unix tools, particularly under public +domain UNIXes. + +We can provide services throughout the UK, at any level from general +consultancy through fetching, installing and customising software to +bespoke programming. Fees would be in the range #300 - #600 per day, +depending primarily on the size of the job. + +You can contact us + by email: + by phone: 0370 30 40 52 (UK) + (+44) 370 30 40 52 (International) + by post: 3, Lauriston Gardens, + Edinburgh EH3 9HH + Scotland + +Entered: 13Nov95 + +Scott D. Kalter -16 Campus Plaza, Suite 180 -Vestal, NY 13850 -Work:607-729-7834 ext. 180 -Home:607-748-2709 -Fax:607-748-0243 +Qualifications: BS Math/CS 1985: Carnegie Mellon University + MS CS 1988: UCLA -Rate: $40/hr. Phone questions for free are ok as far as my schedule will permit - Lower rates for students and certain non-profit organizations + Very familiar with all levels of elisp programming. Taught + Emacs use and customization in universities and industry. Extensive + troubleshooting and user support experience. Co-developed an + object-oriented extension to Elisp that can be used for + projects. Extensive Elisp level modification for rapid + prototyping of designs used in groupware research. This + includes the development of an infrastructure to support + multiple, communicating Emacs processes. + +Updated: 6Apr94 + +KAMAN SCIENCES CORPORATION +258 GENESEE STREET +UTICA NY 13502 +(315) 734-3600 + +CONTACTS: Alan Piszcz (peesh) + : Dennis Fitzgerald + +Kaman Sciences has performed a GNU port for a custom RISC processor. +We have experience in the definition and description of the machine +register transfer language to the GNU tool-set. This includes rewriting +and modification of the necessary description and source files of gcc, gas, +and gld and other binutils. Kaman also has services for installation and +setup of GNU tools, (GAWK, GCC, EMACS, etc.) on Sun workstations. -Can help with installation/customization/modification of most GNU software. +Work is on a "service contract" basis and development is charged either +hourly or as a fixed price contract. -Experience: Software Development, System Administration, and Consulting on - a variety of computing platforms. +Consulting rates: $70 to $200 per hour. -Updated: 11 Sept 91 +Entered: 13Jan95  -Hundred Acre Software Consultants -1280 Terminal Way, Suite 26 -Reno NV 89502-3243 -(702) 329-9333 +Scott J. Kramer +P.O. Box 620207 +Woodside, CA 94062 ++1 415-941-0755 -Hundred Acre is a consulting group providing support and development -services to organizations of all sizes. We support all kinds of publicly -available software, not just GNU; write for the current list. We work on -a "service contract" basis for support -- for a yearly fee, we provide email -and toll free telephone support, and free updates and bug fixes. Certain -support levels even have free on-site support. Development is charged on -either an hourly or fixed bid basis. - -Consulting rates: $50 to $70 per hour, or fixed bid. -Support contracts: Several levels, from $500 to $30000 per year. - -Updated: 2 Jul 91 - -Scott D. Kalter -970 Palm Ave. #218 -West Hollywood, CA 90069 -Home: (213)657-9174 -Work: (213)524-1805 - -Emacs: e-lisp and C level customization/extension - training for general use and customization - user support, installation, troubleshooting -Rates: approx. $50/hr, negotiable - Very willing to answer quick questions for free. - Prefer e-mail communication to telephone. +GNU Software: Tutoring, installations/upgrades, Emacs Lisp customizations, + general troubleshooting/support. Prefer that work I do + becomes part integrated into official Free Software Foundation + distributions. -Qualifications: BS Math/CS 1985: Carnegie Mellon University - MS CS 1988: UCLA - Extensive e-lisp level modification for rapid prototyping of - designs used in groupware research. Very familiar with all - levels of elisp programming. Taught Emacs use and - customization in universities and industry. Extensive - troubleshooting and user support experience. - -Updated:10/10/91 - -Jim Kingdon -East Wind -Route 3, box 6B2 -Tecumseh, Missouri 65760 -(417)679-4682 - -Willing to take on any gnu software; particularly knowledgeable about -the debugger (GDB) although I also have (varying amounts of) -experience with emacs, GCC, binutils, and others. I am familiar with -both VMS and Unix. Should be able to do porting, other programming tasks, -installation, user support, etc. - -Qualifications: Minor in computer science from Oberlin College, 2 -years experience in programming, helping users, system management. -Maintained GDB for the Free Software Foundation for a year. +Systems Administration: Sun (SunOS & Solaris) and SGI (IRIX) + UNIX hardware/software platforms. -Rates: Negotiable, but as a ballpark figure $30/hr. Free or cheap to -Good Causes. +Rate: Task- and time-dependent; non-monetary offers accepted. -Updated: 28 Dec 1991 +Updated: 12Apr94  -Scott J. Kramer -P.O. Box 3392 -San Rafael, CA 94912 -+1 415-454-1295 +Fen Labalme -Rate: Task- and time-dependent; non-monetary offers considered. +Services: Supply, porting, installation, consultation on all GNU +products. -Updated: 28Aug91 - -Fen Labalme -Broadcatch Technologies -40 Carl St. #4 -San Francisco CA 94117 -(415) 731-1174 - -Rates: Free phone consultation - Extended project or consultation: $70/hour plus expenses - Non-profits get lower rates or free; barter welcome! -Emacs: Anything but specific termcap questions (general ones OK). - Includes elisp extensions & teaching beginning or advanced users. -Experience: I've been "hacking Emacs" for just about 15 years now. - -Updated: 7/30/91 - -David C Lawrence -P.O. Box 61 -North Chatham, NY 12132-0061 -Home:518 766-9098 Work:518 851-2813 - -Rates: $30 hour for projects less than 8 hours. - $20 hour for longer projects. - Course fees vary with level of subject being taught. - Short queries answered free of charge. - All rates negotiable. - -Support: Emacs (both lisp and C aspects), GCC, GAWK, sed, fileutils, - binutils, miscellaneous others. Definitely not G++. - Consulting via email or telephone, or possibly on-site. +Experience: 20 years OS and compiler experience, portations of most +GNU products. Author of ported software CD-ROM for Unix 4.2. -Updated: Sept 11, 91 +Rates: Choice of DM 150 per hour or hotline rates 3 DM per minute + 10 +DM per phone call. Quick questions may be free. Limited free support +available for purchasers of LEMIS CD-ROMs. + +Updated: 21Feb95  -Marty Leisner +Marty Leisner 332 Shaftsbury Road Rochester, New York 14610 Home:(716) 654-7931 -Experience: 10 years C/Unix, 7 years DOS. - Extensive experience with GNU binary tools, cross-compilers, - embedded/hosted systems. +Experience: 12 years C/Unix, 7 years DOS. + Extensive experience with GNU binary tools, cross-compilers, + embedded/hosted systems, realtime. Degree : BS CS, Cornell University -Rates: $75/hr - -Updated: 6 Jul 91 - -Roland McGrath -545 Tech Sq rm 426 -Cambridge, MA 02139 -Work:(617)253-8568 - -Co-author and maintainer of GNU Make (with Richard Stallman). -Author and maintainer of the GNU C Library. -FSF employee summer 1989, fall 1990 to the present. - -Installation, maintenance, porting, enhancement of all GNU software. - -Fees negotiable. I can work anywhere in the Boston or SF Bay Area, or -anywhere on the Internet. - -Updated: 12/15/90 - -Lee McLoughlin - Department of Computing, - Imperial College, - 180 Queens Gate, - London - SW7 2BZ, - UK work: +44 71 589 5111 X 5085 +Rates: $75/hr -gcc, emacs: can support and port to new machines -other: some experience with most gnu packages -Ported emacs to two new platforms (WhiteChappel Worstations, -HLH Orion). Worked on gcc port to Intergraph Clipper. Support -various gnu packages as part of a teaching service. -Rates: Quick phone questions are free. +marty + -Degrees:.Sc(Hons) Computer Science - -Other: I'm a general workaholic and well versed in compilers, communications -and most things related to Unix. - -Updated: 10.10.91 - -T.S.Mohan -KBCS Group -Supercomputer Education and Research Centre -Indian Institute of Science -Bangalore 560 012 -INDIA -Telephone (01-91-812)-341811, -341805 - -Rate: NIL. Availability for consultancy depends on - work load. High preference for academic institutions. -Support: emacs, gdb, gcc, g++ and other small public domain utilities -Experience: Installed and supported these + other gnu programs in our - centre for the past three years. General help to sister academic - departments and other academic institutions. -Degrees: Master of Engineering in CS. Currently working towards a PhD - in Distributed computing and programming languages. - -Updated: 1 Dec 1991 +Updated: 15Apr94  -Mojave Systems -1254 Harvard Avenue -Claremont, CA 91711 -714-621-7372 - -Mojave Systems offers porting services, warranty protection, and -software support for several GNU products. Porting services are -provided for a fixed fee. Software support is provided for fixed -annual fee. +Richard Levitte (in TeX: Richard Levitte +Södra Långgatan 39, II S\"odra L{\aa}nggatan 39, II +S-171 49 Solna S-171 49 Solna +Sweden Sweden) +Tel.nr.: +46 (8) 18 30 99 (there is an answering machine) +e-mail: (preferred) + + +What I do: + Primarly I work on GNU software for VMS, both VAX and AXP. I + also work on GNU stuff for Unix on occasion. I'm familiar with + SunOS (version 4.x.x), BSD (version 4.2 and up), + Ultrix (version 4.2 and up). + I've been porting GNU Emacs to VMS since spring 1991. This + includes versions 18.57 to 18.59 and version 19.22. + I maintain GNU vmslib. + +Programs supported: + GNU vmslib: extending, installation, upgrading aid, + simple and complex questions, you name it. + GNU Emacs: porting, extending, installation, upgrading aid, + customization, simple or complex questions, + training, you name it. + GNU autoconf: porting, extending, installation, upgrading aid. + GNU zip, diffutils, m4, patch, texinfo: + porting, installation, upgrading aid. + GNU C/C++: installation, upgrading aid. I might start to + hack at it some day. + +The list of programs I currently support represents both my interests and +current priorities. Your interest and funding can influence my priorities. + +Experience: + Fluent in C, C++, Emacs Lisp, Pascal as well as assembler + on VAX, Motorola 680x0, Intel 8086 and 80x86. Modified key + elements in Emacs (e.g., memory and process management) to work + transparently on VMS. I have very good knowledge in the VMS + operating system, as well as MS-DOS and IBM PC compatibles. + I have worked for four and a half years as a VMS system manager. + I've also provided consulting services on IBM PC compatibles, + as well as held classes for IBM PC users. + A reference list is available on request. + +Your Rate: + $50-$80/hour (400-700 SEK in sweden), plus expenses. My rates + are negotiable, depending on how interesting the project is to me. -Mojave Systems is able to provide these services for a wide variety of -hosts. We are currently porting GNU make and RCS to non-Unix hosts. -Entered: 12 Dec 90 +Entered: 18Aug94  -Eric Raible (raible@nas.nasa.gov) -Nasa Ames Research Center -Mail Stop T045-1 -Moffett Field, CA, 94035 -(415) 604-4320 (W) +Roland McGrath +545 Tech Sq, Rm 426 +Cambridge, MA 02139 +Work: (617) 253-8568 -Rates: $40 hour; email questions free. +Co-author of GNU Make (with Richard Stallman); maintainer of GNU Make. +Author and maintainer of the GNU C Library and co-author of the GNU Hurd. +Author of several GNU Emacs Lisp packages and parts of GNU Emacs 19. +FSF employee summer 1989, fall 1990 to the present. -Gnu emacs C/lisp programming and porting. General -unix/graphics/emacs hacking, especially on Silicon Graphics -workstations. +Installation, maintenance, porting, enhancement of all GNU software. I can +install GNU software and maintain its installation on call via the Internet. -Degree: MIT 83 BS CS. +Fees negotiable; $75-$100/hour, higher for very short term projects. I can +work anywhere in the Boston or SF Bay Area, or anywhere on the Internet. I +am working full-time for the FSF on the GNU Hurd, so I am likely to take on +only jobs that either can be done entirely via the Internet and are +short-term, or that are very interesting. -Updated: 11 Sept 91 +Updated: 21Jan95  -Paul Reilly -721 Bennington Drive -Raleigh, NC 27615 -Work: 919 248 6210 -Home: 919 847 7294 - -Services: access, installation, porting, customizing and debugging -Unix Free software: X11, GNU, TeX, etc. - -Rates: $150/hour +Wolfgang S. Rupprecht +47 Esparito Ave. +Fremont, CA 94539-3827 +(510) 659-9757 -Updated: Dec 1991 - -Adam J. Richter ...!ucbvax!soda!adam -409 Evelyn Avenue, Apartment 312 (510) 528-3209 -Albany, CA 94706 fax: (510) 528-8508 +Anything, (lisp, C, customization, porting, installing) I have +written thousands of lines of GNU Emacs C and Lisp code. Original +author of the floating point additions in Emacs 19. -X windows server expert. Freeware (especially copylefted) projects -preferred. +Rates: $95/hr. -Updated: 18 Nov 91 +Updated: 14Apr94  -Wolfgang S. Rupprecht -PO Box 6524 -Alexandria, VA 22306-0524 -(703) 768-2640 +Signum Support AB +Box 2044 _ ...!seunet!signum!info +S-580 02 Linkoping, Sweden ++46 13 21 46 00 voice ++46 13 21 47 00 fax + +Signum Support AB is a company dedicated to supporting, developing +and distributing free software for, including but not limited to, +UNIX systems. The people behind Signum Support AB have many years +of general UNIX experience, both as system administrators and as +programmers, and also extensive experience in maintaining the GNU +programs, both administrating it and finding and fixing bugs. -Emacs: Anything, (lisp, C, customization, porting, installing) I have -written thousands of lines of GNU Emacs C and Lisp code. Original -author of the floating point additions to appear in Emacs 19. +Services offered: -Rates: $75/hr. + - Installation and customizing GNU and other free software. We will + make free software as easy to install and use as shrink wrapped + programs. + - Warranty protection. + - Customization and porting. + - Subscriptions to new versions which we will send monthly or with + any other interval. + - Finding, Recommending and Investigation of free software in any + area of the customers choise. + - Regular consulting. -Updated: 7/20/91 - -Isaac J. Salzman -Sun Microsystems Inc. -2550 Garcia Ave., MS: MTV23-41 -Mt. View, CA 94043-1100 -1+ 415-336-4338 (work) - -X11 - Installation, customization, support, some training, etc. All - available window managers, XView, Andrew, InterViews, (but NO - Motif!). -Emacs/Epoch - Installation, customization, support, etc. -GCC/G++ - Installation, support, etc.. -MH - Installation, customization, support, sendmail config, etc. -OTHER - Consulting on - most GNUware, SunOS/BSD UNIX IPC programming, - (most anything hat's BSD UNIX related), Sparcstation Audio, - MIDI. - -Rate: Negotiable - around $65/hr. I'll take quick e-mail/phone questions - for free (e-mail preferred). - -Experiance: 8.5+ years BSD UNIX systems programming (Sun's, VAXen) including - support of GNU Emacs & MH. About 6+ years of X11 experience. - Extensive knowledge of C, C++, perl, shell programming, XView, and - SunOS. Resume available upon request. - -Dergree: B.S. Computer Science, California State University, Northridge. - -Availibilty: My time is limited so it has to be a very short - or *very* -interesting project. :-) - -Updated: 18 August 91 - -John Sechrest -Jasmic Systems Internet: -2140 SW 49th St. UUCP: -Corvallis, Oregon 97333 - -Gnu software: Questions about gnu emacs general use, training and classes, - documentation, system set up and design. - -Experience: 11 years of Unix work. Heavy on System administration. - Teaching classes in Unix system administraion, Unix - Kernal Programming, Networking and Consulting services. - Currently working as the Support Coordinator for - Oregon State University (for 8 years). - - Familiar with BSD systems mostly. Some SysVR4. - I have supported VAxes, HP's with HPUX, HP's with 4.3 BSD, - Sequent's, Next's and a few other misc. machines. - -Updated: 28 Oct 1991 - -Steve Simmons -Inland Sea -9353 Hidden Lake Circle -Dexter, MI 48130 -313-769-4086 (office1) -313-426-2086 (office2) - -Rate: $75.00/hr for straight time until Jan 1, 1992. Rates will go up -an undetermined amount at that time. Free advice for short questions -by phone or email. - -Programs Supported: Any. Quality of support I can offer depends on -the nature of the software; in particular I am *not* a compiler person. - -Experiance: 13 years in computing, 10 with UNIX and various derivatives. -Specialist in systems administration. Lots of network admin. - -Degree: Bachelors from University of Michigan, 1980. - -Updated: 10 Oct 91 - -Lynn Slater -42075 Lawrence Place -Fremont Ca 94538 -Office (415) 438-2048; Home (415) 793-1864; Fax (415) 438-2034 - -Programs: Gnu Emacs Ada Mode, Gnu Emacs Empire Tool, Emacs, - g++ and gnumake (limited support only). - -Experiance: - Gnu Emacs Ada Mode -- Co-author, principle integrator - Gnu Emacs Empire Tool -- Originator, co-author, principle distributor - Emacs -- Almost all parts. Authored super-apropos, headers, first GDB - interface, fancy-lisp, enhanced scribe mode,and lots of small stuff - g++ -- Have maintained, modified, and used G++ on 300+ user commercial - OLTP software. - gnumake -- Have bug fixed and extended. - - Have single makefile that can merge in local changes and build the - following systems in a consistent manner in multiple releases on multiple - machines: - asm, bison, gcc, g++, emacs, rcs, gdb, libg++, att c++ libs, gnumake, - diff, tex2iroff - The makefile and related techniques are a bit hard to explain, but they - enable use and local changes in a broad spectrum of FSF code on many - platforms without having to remember all the individual make procedures. - -Rate: Free for good cause or short stuff as there is time. - Am most likely to help in areas in which I have had problems or expect to - have problems. +Rates: For software items, request our price list. + For consulting, 400-800 SEK/hour. -Updated: 10 Oct 91 +Updated: 14Apr94  -Small Business Systems, Inc. postmaster@anomaly.sbs.com +Small Business Systems, Inc. Box 17220, Route 104 Esmond, RI 02917 401.273.4669 @@ -713,28 +606,41 @@ Rate: Varies depending on complexity of Hourly and fixed-rate contracts are available. Programs Supported: All -Updated: 11 Sept 91 +Updated: 14Apr94  -Randall D. Smith -20 Watson Street -Cambridge, MA 02139, USA -+1 (617) 983-0276 - -Will work on most GNU software. -Installation, handholding, trouble shooting, extensions, teaching, -GCC, GDB, GNU-EMACS, and other ports. - -Rates: Upward from $50.00/hour depending on my expertise in the area of the -job. GDB consulting at $80.00/hour. +Julian H. Stacey. +Vector Systems Ltd, Holz Strasse 27d, D 80469 Munich (Muenchen), GERMANY. +Tel. +49 89 268616 (089 268616 in Germany) 09:00-21:00 Timezone=GMT+01:00 + +Sources: All FSF/GNU, FreeBSD-current, X-Windows, XFree86, NetBSD, Mach, etc. + (Plus various other things, such as, but not limited to: + blas blt cflow CAD cnews crypt dvi2lj eispack elm encryption expect + ezd f2c flexfax gic gopher info-zip ingres inn jpeg kermit ksh + less lha linpack md5 mh mprof mtools mush nntp octave pbmplus + popper sather sc schemetoc slurp sml spreadsheet sup tcl tcl-dp + tcsh tcx term tex tiff tk top trn unarj ups urt wine xlock xv + xview xxgdb zmodem zip zircon zoo zsh.) +Media: QIC 1/4" Cartridge 525M, 150M, & 60M, TEAC CAS-60 60M Cassette, + CD-ROM, Floppies 1.4M & 1.2 & 720K & 360K. DAT arrangeable. + Postal Service C.O.D.(=`Nachnahme') or pre payment available. +Commercial Consultancy: + Custom Designs, Provision & support of FreeBSD or Unix, C, FSF tools, + X Windows, own tools, systems engineering, hardware interfacing, + multi lingual European, Cyrillic & Chinese tools & systems, + Unix, MSDOS, real time etc, communications & scientific & industrial. +DEUTSCH + FRANCAIS: + Man kann mir in Deutsch schreiben, (oder mich anrufen). + Je comprend Francais, mais je n'ecris pas des responses en Francais. + (Contact me in English, German, or French). +FREE for Symmetric Computer Systems Model 375 owners: + Free Binaries & sources on SCS/375's TEAC 50/60M Cassette, for: + GCC-1.40, UUCP-1.4, Ghostscript 2.3, Tar-1.08, Gzip-1.2.2 etc. + (Native SCS compiler can't compile GCC on this NSC32016 based BSD4.2) +On Request: Resume, Company Profile, Index of public & proprietary tools, +Rate: ~120 DM/hour. ~100DM/Cartridge. (1.5DM = $1 USA = 0.6 UK Pounds @4/'94) +Short enquiries free. (Kurze Anfragen Ohne Gebuhr). -Experience: 4 years of intensive experience with Unix and C including -system hacking and modification. Experience in porting GNU-EMACS (to -SGI Iris 4D) and GCC (to use Sun FPA chip). Experience working -full-time for the GNU project on other GNU programs (June 1988 - -August 1989). Primary maintainer of GDB and the GNU loader for that -period. Resume available on request. - -Entered: 10 Feb 92 +Updated: 14Jun94  Richard M. Stallman UUCP: {mit-eddie,ucbvax,uunet,harvard,uw-beaver}!ai.mit.edu!rms @@ -748,53 +654,60 @@ Original inventor of Emacs and main auth Rates: $6/min or $250/hr. -Entered: 5/24/90 - -Jonathan Stone -c/o- Institute of Statistics and Operations Research -Victoria University of Wellington -P.O Box 600 -Wellington -New Zealand -Work: +64 4 715-315 Fax: +64 4 712-070 - -Rate: hourly rate: NZ $ 150/hr. Quick phone questions are free. - Reduced rates available for for non-profit/educational insts - and daily rate work. Fixed-price contracts also considered. - -Programs: GNU Emacs, GCC, GDB, GNU binutils, - Ghostscript, MIT X11 - I am the author of the Pyramid ports of gcc and gdb. - -Experiance: Five years administration of Unix systems and GNU tools - in University environments, and support of Unix administrators - and GNU tools as an external contractor to New Zealand Government - departments. - -Degrees: M.Sc (Distinction) for a thesis involving work done on GCC. - -Updated: 28 Aug 91 +Updated: 14Apr94  -Bob Sutterfield - -work: home: -Morning Star Technologies -1760 Zollinger Road 3542 Norwood Street -Columbus, Ohio 43221 USA Columbus, Ohio 43224-3424 USA -(614)451-1883 (614)267-7611 - -Rates: $50/hr (negotiable) plus travel expenses - Gratis to Christian missionaries and mission agencies +JoS-Ware Comp Tech Johan Svensson +Box 739 +220 07 LUND +SWEDEN +Tel +46-46-104505 (Dept. of Economics, University of LUND) +Fax +46-46-188445 (JoS-Ware Comp Tech) -Services: Installation, troubleshooting, and mild customization of - most GNU production and beta-test software; tutorials, training, - and handholding; general UNIX system and network consulting. +What: We offer consulting services regarding installation, + customization, troubleshooting, porting and integration + of all free software, including GNU software. + +Spec.: Network integration, integration of public domain software + into commercial systems, WorldWideWeb, C, X-Windows, Linux, + networked information systems + +How: Remote login over internet, email, modem, phone, personal + visits (in southern Sweden mainly) + +Rates: 550SEK (+ tax) per hour within Sweden + 370SEK (+ tax) per hour within Sweden for educational org. + US $90 per hour outside Sweden + US $70 per hour outside Sweden for educational org. + Note: fees may vary and special arrangements may be considered + +Entered: 7Apr94 + +Kayvan Sylvan +Sylvan Associates +879 Lewiston Drive +San Jose, CA 95136 +Phone: 408-978-1407 + +I will help you port, install and customize GNU Emacs, GCC, G++, +bison, and other GNU tools on almost any architechture and operating +system. Questions answered. GNU C and lisp hacking available. I will +also do ongoing support and periodic upgrades if you get on my GNU +software subscription list. + +Rates: $60-$100/hour, depending on type of work. Substantial discounts +for long-term contracts and also for educational or non-profit +institutions. + +Experience: Many different Unix systems (2.9BSD to 4.4BSD, SVR3 and +SVR4, Linux, Xenix). Systems programming and system administration on all +brands of Unix. Kernel hacking experience. Lots of porting experience. +I can port anything to anything (within reason). -Entered: 2/16/92 +Updated: 14Apr94  Leonard H. Tower Jr. 36 Porter Street -Somerville, MA 02143, USA +Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 Will work on most GNU software. @@ -806,83 +719,134 @@ Experience: Have hacked on over a dozen system mothered several varieties of Unixes. Assisted rms with the front end of gcc and it's back-end support. Resume available on request. -Entered: 12 Feb 92 +Entered: 14Apr94 + +UrbanSoft AO +68 Malooktinskii Prospect +St. Petersburg, Russia 195272 + +Custom GhostScript and TeX programming by e-mail. +Database documents, directories, standard forms. + +UrbanSoft uses a portion of its revenues to contribute +diskette distributions of GNU software to Russian +universities (most of which lack FTP access). + +Rates: 30,000 rubles (currently USD 16.80) per hour. + Fixed rate contracts also possible. + Payable by bank transfer. + +Updated: 20Apr94  -Watchmaker Computing -P.O.Box 163, Kendall Square -Cambridge, MA 02142 -email: support@watch.com - -Emacs: We'll do GNUEmacs support, porting, bug fixing, and customizing. -We also have specific expertise in: - packages: GCC, G++, X11, Xt, InterViews, PERL, TeX, Epoch - languages: C, C++, Lisp, most others; we learn quickly! -Extensive experience coding for portability under UNIX. -Typical rates $35-$150/hour; will telecommute (Internet or phone) - -Entered: 1/16/91 - -Chris Welty -RPI Computer Science Dept -Troy, NY 12180 -518-276-2816 (W) - -EMail correspondance preferred. -Rates vary depending on need, barter often accepted. - -Programs: emacs, especially emacs lisp. -Lots of experience in various areas. -BS, MS from RPI. Currently working on PhD. - -Updated: 10/10/91 - -Pace Willisson -Blitz Product Development Corporation -4 Spruce Road -Medway, MA 02053, USA -Work: (508) 533-6430 - -Rates: $80.00/hour - -Will work on any GNU software. - -Experience: 12 years working with C, Unix and Lisp Machines including -compilation systems, networks, device drivers, demand paging systems, -boot programs and window systems. Ported GDB to 80386. Designed COFF -encapsulation scheme to run GNU linker output on System 5 kernels. -Author of Unix "ispell". - -Degree: BS in Computer Science from MIT - -Updated: 7/31/91 - -Patrick Wood -Pipeline Associates, Inc. -2740 Route 10 West -Morris Plains, NJ 07950 - -Rate: Free -Support For: gcc, binutils, gnulib, using gcc for cross compiling -Experiance: used gcc for cross compiling for over 2 years; used - gcc for three years; installed and support gcc on several - BSD and System V UNIX systems; wrote peephole optimizer for - gcc on 68K, wrote portable replacement for FP routines in - gnulib.c. Modified gcc and binutils to work in byte-swapped - environments. -Other: email consulting only (pipeline!phw@motown.com, - uunet!motown!pipeline!phw,sun!pipeline!phw, amdcad!pipeline!phw) - -Updated: 18 Sept 91 - -Name: david d [zoo] zuhn - -Company: armadillo zoo software -Fees: $50/hour, discounts for educational institutions and non-profits - - GNU and X11 installation and maintainance on SGI Iris, Sun [68k & - SPARC], and Sequent machines. Additional machines a possibility. - Any GNU software installed. Most supported. +noris network +Matthias Urlichs +Schleiermacherstrasse 12 +90491 Nuernberg +Germany +Phone: +49 911 9959621 +Fax: +49 911 5980150 + +http://info.noris.de/ (German) + +Expertise: + OS internals, esp. Linux and BSD, esp. device drivers + Network protocol / program design and coding + Utilities coding and maintainance + Program debugging, testing + User interface design and testing + Several programming and tool languages + +Services: + Installation, debugging, enhancement, distribution, + for all kinds of free software. + System administration for most Unix-like systems. + Email, Fax, phone, and in-person consulting (and/or "question answering"). + Remote support and system monitoring (over the Internet), + Update service (new tools tested and installed automagically) + Internet access + +Rates: + DM 110 (~$70) per hour + Support contracts start at DM 170/month + DM 30/supported system. + Willing to travel for sufficiently large jobs. + Rates don't include taxes. + +Entered: 16Aug94 + +Joe Wells +Postal Address: + care of: Boston University Computer Science Department + 111 Cummington Street, Room 138 + Boston, Massachusetts 02215 +Work Telephone: (617) 353-3381 (sorry, but no answering machine or voice mail) +Home Telephone: (617) 739-7456 (until August 1995) +Finger "jbw@cs.bu.edu" for up-to-date contact information. + +Experience: + I have B.A. and M.A. degrees in Computer Science and have completed + all but the dissertation for a Ph.D. in C.S. My research for my + Ph.D. is in the areas of logic, type systems, and programming + language theory. My primary programming languages are Emacs Lisp, + Perl, and Bourne shell, but of course I can program in any language. + I have written numerous Emacs Lisp packages. I started the USENET + "List of Frequently Asked Questions about GNU Emacs with Answers" and + maintained it for more than two years. Most of my work has been + related to the telephone system (modems, voice mail, etc.), but I am + not limited to that. Send e-mail for my complete resume or curriculum + vita. + +Programs supported: + GNU Emacs and Taylor UUCP: + Installation, training, customization, bug fixing, troubleshooting, + extension, development, porting, or answering any kind of question. + Any other GNU program: + The same things, but I don't necessarily have huge amounts of + experience with the particular program. + +Working conditions: + I am usually available for part-time work (less than 20 hours per week + including any travel time). I can sometimes make time for full-time + work for a month or two; please inquire. I can either work in or near + Boston or via the Internet or via telephone; travel outside the Boston + metropolitan area can be negotiated. My schedule is very flexible. + Any programs I write will normally have the copying conditions of the + GNU General Public License; this is negotiable. + +Rates: $65/hour as an independent contractor. + travel and telephone expenses. + higher rates if extensive travel is required. + +Updated: 27Sep94. + +Herb Wood +phone: 1-415-789-7173 +email: + +I'm a better "planner" than I am a hacker. A really good hacker will be able +to keep many pieces of information in their short-term memory and to memorize +new pieces of information at a fast rate. This is not my strong point. +Rather, I excel in domains that require knowledge of the slightly more +theoretical parts of computer science --for example, logic, formal methods of +program development, and functional programming. I can write, and I have +"tutoring" (teaching one-on-one) experience, an, unlike some programmers, +I enjoy doing these things. + +I have spend a lot of time looking at the Emacs Lisp sources and customizing +Emacs and VM. I think I can customize Emacs and its packages quickly and +effectively. + +Entered: 30Jul95 + +Yggdrasil Computing, Inc./ Freesoft, Inc. +4880 Stevens Creek Blvd. Ste. 205 +San Jose, CA 95129 +(408) 261-6630 +(800) 261 6630 -Entered: 2/12/92 +Updated: 14Apr94  -** Please keep this file alphabetical ** + +For a current copy of this directory, or to have yourself listed, ask: + gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu + +** Please keep the entries in this file alphabetical **