OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS, Inc.
	  International Public Intelligence Clearinghouse
				   1914 Autumn Chase Court, Falls
				   Church, Virginia 22043-1753

       Voice:  (703) 536-1775 | Facsimile: (703) 536-1776
		 INTERNET: steeler@well.sf.ca.us


						       8 October 1993

     About the company....

     OSS, Inc., originally a non-profit educational corporation
     (501c3), was converted to a for-profit recently after Wall Street
     and publishing contacts made clear their disdain for non-profits
     ("they are all scam artists").  While not agreeing with that
     assessment, it became clear that to convert the unwashed, we would
     have to walk in their shoes--hence, we are a for-profit with a
     mission.

     The company was founded in 1992 to facilitate and accelerate
     discussion and understanding, both within governments and in the
     private sectors of all countries, of those issues which must be
     resolved if each country and each enterprise is to be competitive
     in the Age of Information.  The company is an international leader
     is the theory and practice of utilizing open source information,
     and in helping different elements of the information continuum
     (K-12, universities, libraries, businesses, information brokers,
     media, government, defense, and national intelligence agencies)
     coordinate their open source collection, processing and
     translation efforts to avoid wasting manpower and dollars on
     duplicative information efforts.

     OSS, Inc. is the world's only International Public Intelligence
     Clearinghouse.  It is an authoritative "one stop shop" for
     information about open sources, methods, and products.  As a
     clearinghouse, the company helps producers and consumers of
     information improve their practices and lower their costs.

     The company is fully involved and supportive of the National
     Information Infrastructure efforts led by the Vice President, and
     is the leading proponent for taking funds away from the National
     Foreign Intelligence Community in order to nurture a "virtual"
     (distributed) national intelligence community of unclassified
     centers of excellence on specific topics, disciplines, cultures,
     and countries--a community in the service of citizens, rather than
     an elite.

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