Topped the share charts on Friday following a lucrative contract announcement and is rumoured to have several more contracts in the pipeline.

Website www.coms.com

Oi pete wot about me ?

I blame skinny for the share price fall :-)

Don' t blame Skinny Dil! This company is doomed. Has absolutely no future and the sp will tank to nowhere. I know this for certain because I bought in on Tuesday, so sorry everyone, it is my fault not Skinny's but yes, if you like, let's blame Skinny anyway! 😜

Oi!! :-)

I think you are all being incredibly generous in not blaming me since I was responsible for starting this thread! :-)

Oh yes, that's right! You're off the hook Skinny! 😃

lol , all we need now is tabby to turn up and we'll know for sure we're fecked :-)

A little tick up at the close today - let's not get too excited, just yet.

Fair value for this shr is 3p IMO without further deals, I am expecting more deals before long which would improve this basic level, based on current gr margins and prospects of growth with a 12mth target of 5p (Breith's is 10p!) The turn upwards could be very quick

Dil, thanks for you contributions too.

We will not be disappointed with this share and 12 months from now we will amazed. I have emailed DB a few times now and today got an invite to connect with him on linkedin. He seems a really down to earth bloke.

So what are some of the highlights that we have in COMS:

It is one of the fastest growing companies on AIM and now has the finances in place to achieve further growth.

It is having to increase its number of employees by about 133% from 15 to 35 to deal with the workload and that does not include the call centre.

Its employees are now highly incentivised and will work really hard to see the SP rise.

It has a Cloud Computing/Telephony is a cutting edge product that will eventually replace PBX systems and will be extremely appealing to businesses who wish to vastly reduce their telephony costs.

It is gaining new contracts all the time, some are massive and some small, but even the small ones provide open doors that can then lead on to much bigger contracts.

The newsflow via RNS's is endless as the company is being transformed.

In David Breith, it has an inspirational and entrepreneurial CEO whose experience and knowledge in this field can only inspire confidence in his employees, clients and shareholders.

This is just the beginning of a very interesting journey.

Pete

New Accreditation

Coms (AIM: COMS) announces that it has successfully been added to the Government framework procurement "G-Cloud iii", being services accessible through the Cloudstore.

Cloud computing and Cloud based services have brought stepped changes in the economics and procurement of such services. The Government Cloud strategy will achieve:

· large, cross government economies of scale;
· allow for ICT systems that are flexible and responsive to demand in order to support government policies and strategies;
· take advantage of new technologies in order to deliver faster business benefits and reduce cost;
· meet environmental and sustainability targets; and
· allow government to procure in a way that encourages a dynamic and responsive supplier marketplace and supports emerging suppliers.

Coms plc has been successful in submitting 5 services:

1. Hosted telephony
2. SIP trunking
3. Lync 2010 Enterprise Voice
4. Integrated Mobile
5. Hosted Openscape Unified Coms

The Cabinet Office has announced that Government departments buying IT products and services will now be obliged to consider solutions offered by GCloud providers before they can consider alternatives.

The G Cloud Framework contract is run by the Government Procurement Service (GPS) In 2011-12 GPS managed £8.4bn of public sector spend, delivering price savings of £650m. Strategic alliances with other buying organisations demonstrate GPS's commitment to working in partnership to deliver savings that benefit the whole of the public sector.

Francis Maud, Minister for the Cabinet Office, which oversees the G-Cloud programme, said: "G-Cloud brings a step change in the way the government buys IT. It's quicker and more competitive, open to a wider range of companies, including a majority of SMEs and offers more choice and innovation"


Dave Breith (Coms CEO) states: "We are delighted that we have been successful in our submission to Cloudstore, I have had extensive experience in the past with Government contracts and there is not a shadow of doubt that all Government procurement over the next 1-2 years will be forced to procure services in this manner, and when that happens we will be ready"

Pete, welcome to the forum and thank you for your kind comments. Another nice RNS to start the day off!

For any Zak Mir followers - he has just reiterated his 5p target price.

The smart investors recognise today's RNS as comparable, in the mid term, to a large contract win. DB now has everything in place to really get this company motoring.

No one believed that Computers, Mobile phones and Microchips would become what they are today and people who invested in those sectors at the start are now, no doubt, happily retired.

Cloud Computing/Telephony is about to take off and Coms although small is very much one of the key players. I firmly believe that the downside from here is very small and the upside quite the opposite. Investing here is a no brainer. For the risk averse, you can always get a guaranteed 1-1.5% per annum interest in the bank. I preferred the risk and find myself up around 200% in less than 3 months.

Zak Mir Link:

http://www.tradersown.co.uk//magazine/read/coms-coms-half-way-up-to-5p_1600.html#sthash.mo5oNUGZ.dpbs

Press article today at:

http://shares.telegraph.co.uk/news/article.php?id=4596987&epic=COMS

Holding(s) in Company

Coms (AIM: COMS) was informed on 16 May 2013 that Simon Munro purchased a total of 4,371,695 ordinary shares on the same day, taking his total holding to 15,000,000 ordinary shares, which represents 3.22% of the Company's total voting rights.

Simon Munro states "In the relatively short period since Dave Breith took over as CEO, he and his Management Team have positioned Coms Plc to become one of the UK's leading providers of Voip hosted telecoms services. Many providers of Voip are not able to access the capital needed in order to accelerate growth, but as a listed company Coms are able to do this as demonstrated by the recent placing. The hosted sector has already outgrown the cumbersome fixed line channel and the costs savings to customers via hosted are significant. With the highly experienced Management Team that Dave has bought together it seems clear that investing in Coms Plc is investing in the future of Telecoms"

Dave Breith (Coms CEO) states: "It was a delight to have received correspondence from Simon and we welcome him on board as a shareholder, clearly the volume of trades in Coms shares are increasing Month on Month, and Simon investing in Coms must mean we are doing something right"

Who is he?

Him?

Or him?


About Simon Munro

I am a technologist at a large IT consulting group where I have a generic title, ‘Senior Practice Consultant’, which is shared by many others and doesn’t match what I endeavour to do – so I have embarked on a subtle (and possibly fruitless) campaign to get my title changed to ‘Technology Shit Stirrer’ in an effort to, well, stir things up a bit. I have both a lot of experience and an interest in the latest shiny new technology and use this as a platform for the stirring, encouraging people to think differently, assert their views and learn something in the process (myself included). I have been fortunate to work with some really smart people that have helped me understand the fundamentals and I use my knowledge of how things currently, and used to, work to push against the drivers behind the latest technology. The reverse is just as important by trying to understand what the new stuff is trying to change and why. For example, I like to see how traditional SQL systems and DBA’s are pitched against the recently fashionable non SQL databases to better understand the benefits of the ‘new’ and what we need to consider from the status quo.

While it may be interesting some of the time, stirring shit as a full time day job is not really in demand and would probably be tiring, lonely and not very lucrative if I were to give it a try. So I spend my days and get paid building various large and small business oriented systems on top of the .NET stack in and around London in the UK. When I lead teams I work with developers, define architectures, deal with the customer, interface with project management and try to code as much as possible (at the very least to feel the pain of architectural decisions). Sometimes I help out existing teams with some specialized aspect or to help fill in a gap that is being missed. In either case I find that I get to work with some great developers that have been able to focus on specific aspects of software development and it gives me the opportunity to learn something from them.

Software development is ridiculously complex and broad, making it impossible for anyone to be considered an expert – the moment you have the time to be considered an expert on something then someone else is spending time elsewhere, on some other aspect, and learning for than you. At the same time developers tend to be elitist and competitive, often feeling that their lack of mastery on the latest thing is a threat to their careers and standing. Trying to get technical people to challenge and criticise each other and themselves, in an effort to learn and further their craft, is part of day to day shit stirring that needs to be done with care and consideration. Personally, I am comfortable that I have reached the point in my career to acknowledge that there are some things that I am good at and others where I am weak, but rather than feeling threatened, I seek out those people that I can learn from and endeavour to exchange knowledge.

While furthering the craft of software development may be valuable and personally fulfilling, ultimately I am paid for delivery of solutions that are in production and (usually) core to the business. So it is necessary to continually focus on delivery and anything new being learned needs to be done in the context of delivery and value (both current and future) for the customer. So in both the new technologies that I am learning as well as the day to day implementations I focus myself and the developers around me on delivery using various techniques, both tried and tested as well as new – the process of delivering software is as important as the technology and both affect each other, so new technologies require revised processes and existing processes have a possibly negative impact on our technology and implementation choices.

Currently I am getting more involved in the cloud and when it started I saw that I have something to contribute. I noticed that the cloud hype wars were (and still are) driven by vendors selling something, anything, with a newly attached cloud label and by promising how easy and fantastic their products are neglect some core issues. Some of the issues being neglected relate to application architectures and how we build applications (there are other issues, such as security, which are not solely in the application domain). The cloud requires that developers and application architects look at solving problems in an unfamiliar way that demands the learning of new skills and development of new approaches and frameworks – despite how easy it may initially seem. Most developers don’t have the base skills to engineer solutions that are massively distributed and scalable and are short of base techniques, such as message oriented communication, data inconsistencies and so on. I only have a smidgen of those skills but reckon I am able to spot what is needed and make an effort t try and figure it out.

This blog will reflect, in the coming months, that process of learning and communication that began on my corporate blog (which I will still post to). Some of the content will be loosely formed ideas, some current and journalistic in nature, but most will be free of editorial constraints and will be entirely my own, with all the disclaimers that apply.

I hope you find something interesting here.

Simon