Bill Gates leaves Microsoft software behind as well…
By Davey Winder in Editorial
It would seem that Bill Gates has not only left his Microsoft office and car parking space behind him, but the same might apply to his use of Microsoft software. After all, you might reasonably expect the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to turn to Microsoft Project Server and Microsoft Project to help manage the construction of its new Seattle-based HQ.
However, it appears that a small British outfit called BIW Technologies, employing just 40 people, can do the job better.
It has just announced that it has been chosen by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide its Software-as-a-Service construction project control system during the building of that new HQ.
Planning and consultations for the 500 Fifth Avenue North project commenced in 2005, and the initial phase which involves the construction of the US$50m Seattle Center 5th Ave N Parking Garage is scheduled for completion in mid-July 2008.
BIW technologies says that while another online system was used to deliver the 1,020-space Garage project, the Foundations needed “to manage a range of complex business processes” and so opted to “use the BIW system instead to support design and construction of the key first phases of the campus buildings.”
BIW chief executive Colin Smith says that “This project, won in the face of competition from other global firms, demonstrates that the BIW platform can be readily adapted to support large and complex schemes working to US standards and processes.”
Perhaps what he should have said was ‘will you be using Firefox on a Linux platform next Bill?”
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