Newly formed TAC to offer intranet solutions

MUMBAI: Mumbai-based entertainment company Western Outdoor Interactive (WOI)

Company has floated a new company called The Argon Company (TAC). TAC will offer

Internet and intranet solutions under the name The Argon Services (TAS).

Western Outdoor Interactive (WOI) Company, headed by Anil Nanavati, who will

be the CEO of TAC, has invested a substantial amount in the company. While he

declined to put a figure on the investments, he said that the newly formed

company was seeking more investors.

According to Mr Nanavati, the whole solution was built around Linux-based

software developed by TAC, which not only provides e- mail and Internet at the

workstation level in a LAN environment, but also seamlessly integrates print and

file server functions. ‘TAC is positioned as a service, not a software

product, and handles various stages - from ISP selection and domain registration

to Web site development and hosting,"’ he explained.

Besides this, TAC would also look after the setup of the network at customer

site, maintain related software and hardware, user training through Argon

College. A call center would handle the problems of the customers.

According to Nanavati, TAS as currently positioned is not offered anywhere in

the world today. Commenting on the state of SMEs in India, Nanavati said that

small and medium sized enterprises in India are only now becoming IT enabled and

they not only face confusing set of technical choices, but also have to deal

with a disparate host of vendors just to get e-mail.

Nanavati claims that TAC would help these SMEs as TAS has been launched as a

one stop shop to handle all the complexities needed to install, operate and

maintain e-mail and Internet and make it an ubiquitous productivity tool as it

is in many parts of the world.