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

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

Doodlebug, I believe that it is the latter http://simonmunro.com/about/

He is into Cloud technology big time and can clearly see the potential of COMS.

Perhaps he is angling for a place on the Board of Directors - just a thought!

perhaps he is a ramper?

LOL, that's an expensive purchase just to be a ramper!

doodle true but if his target is 5p then he stands to make more than a few bob!

If his target gets to 5p we all stand to make a few bob - excellent, bring it on !

doodle good luck, but don't hold your breath!

halifax, I must admit I don't usually dabble in what I regard as "minnows", but after doing some research I think this little chap could be the real deal. David Breith has said this share price is going to 10p "in the near future" and in my opinion if the CEO of any company comes out with a statement like that then he needs to deliver, otherwise his street cred is shot to pieces.

Doodle

DB is recruiting lots of new staff at the moment, perhaps Munro, with his "Cloud CV" could find himself working for Coms. I also feel that a place on the BoD is not out of the question.

Today's British Bulls Recommendation for coms at http://www.britishbulls.com/SignalPage.aspx?lang=en&Ticker=COMS.L :

Signal Update

Our system’s recommendation today is to BUY. The BULLISH THREE OUTSIDE UP pattern finally received a confirmation because the prices crossed the confirmation level which was at 2.1750, and our valid average buying price stands now at 2.1800. The previous SELL recommendation was issued on 10/05/2013, 10 days ago, when the stock price was 2.6470. Since then COMS.L has fallen by -17.64%.

Market Outlook

Let’s jump on our white horses and go for a bullish ride. The bullish pattern that was previously identified is finally confirmed and a BUY signal is generated. The market is telling you about a new profit. Do not miss this bullish opportunity.

Outsourcery floats tomorrow - Friday 24th. If this has a good first day it could also give a boost to the rest of the Cloud Sector.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/deals/outsourcery-led-dragons-den-star-4001215

What will be will be.