Just like taking coals to Newcastle

A small software company from Woking is cock-a-hoop after winning a significant contract on the West Coast of America. BIW Technologies is supplying software to the architects and project managers who will build the new headquarters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, the charity that will distribute sonme of Gates's billions. The company is especially pleased because Gates is not exactly short of software engineers or, for that matter, product. It seems there is no requirement for his foundation to take Microsoft products. Unlike, perhaps, the rest of us.

(Original article also online here)