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| Subject: Re: The advantages to ERG doing it this way | |
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Date Posted: 16:57:29 12/05/02 Thu In reply to: anonymous 's message, "In order to have the very best Prisma contactless that works with transit ERG Venus/ASK" on 16:43:26 12/05/02 Thu Basically ERG don't want to be in the manufacturing side---so that is farmed out all over the world--to various company's that include ASK SA---so what ERG have done is after they purchased the Venus Platform from Motorola--they onsold the manufacturing part to ASK--and with it a sublicence to the technology (non exclusive)---this is so when ERG need to buy in cards----(the entity has inserted a right to buy them cheaply) it just gets them off ASK---the technology that goes into it---is Protons---so Proton gets the licensing fee's from it---which ultimately flows back to ERG---the other advantages to ERG Group are ofcourse by outsourcing the whole thing it cuts down on costs--and also takes care of all the amortisation and depreciation---by not having the manufacturing side of ERG's books. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |