. fieldcraft type sole proprietorship industry information services founded 2001 founder timothy casey 1 headquarters south australia products australian postcode survey blackjack examiner clearit drawbridge iq power stretch web sergeant services web development project management geological services website www.fieldcraft.biz fieldcraft founded in 2001 is an australian information services business specialising in general research project management software development standards compliant web development and geological services including sedimentology petroleum geology well site geology and drilling rig supervision . contents 1 operations 2 history 3 business economics 4 references 5 external links operations edit fieldcraft operations are divided into production of items licensed directly to the public and services contracts undertaken and fulfilled for other corporations . research and software development come under production with several products on the market . geological services are strictly undertaken as services by contract to other corporations . generally web development and project management are undertaken as internal services for the purpose of supporting production operations however they can also be offered as services to other companies subject to a lack of conflicting interests arising from the respective project objectives . history edit technological research by fieldcraft formally began in 1997 four years before fieldcraft was registered as a south australian business on 30 may 2001 . the first product was a speed reading package called stretch released in late 2001 followed by a security package called drawbridge released in mid 2002 . the security product kept the epidemic of self loading email viruses that broke out in september 2002 out of systems where it was used . other fieldcraft products include a postcode survey package a blackjack systems analyser a tsr manager a trial locking program for vb6 a reusable iq testing program and a program for building unscripted interoperable standards compliant drop down web menus . in 2004 fieldcraft published the general public electronic mail contract gpemc or the general public electronic mail license as it became known for pro bono general public use in order to lay the foundation for class actions against senders of bulk unsolicited commercial email . 2 business economics edit fieldcraft is economically rationalised meaning that material capital expenditure is limited to existing funds already raised from profits accumulated after the deduction of applicable costs . this policy extends to prohibit contracting of ongoing services whose charges are not strictly activity based . by way of example paypal s merchant fees are strictly transaction based 3 whereas most australian banks charge a number of fees on merchant accounts that have nothing to do with account activity as a result paypal provides the merchant facilities for fieldcraft and not the banks . this kind of policy allows a business to idle during quiet times without incurring debt and makes for a very robust business model . fieldcraft is a private business with no shares available to the public . references edit abn lookup current details for 73 066 775 958 . australian business register . 2001 08 27 . retrieved 2007 05 16 . casey timothy 2004 . general public electronic mail license . fieldcraft . retrieved 2007 05 16 . virtual terminal overview outside . paypal . retrieved 2007 05 16 . external links edit fieldcraft official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title fieldcraft company & oldid 554971005 categories software companies of australiahidden categories use dmy dates from june 2011use australian english from june 2011all wikipedia articles written in australian english navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 may 2013 at 23 51 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view