We are 8, 5 devs including myself. Not huge but still costly.

We do use open source libs (mit license), its the combinations which is quite unusual. But we could leverage some of them like web2py.

About mercenary coding, I am all for it as I know my team would do right and create a good margin on each project. What I wonder is how to promote a team like us.

Delegating the sales at the international level might be indeed the best option. Some of our customer are foreign and in bad shape but someone with more connections could be more successful than we have been. Open sourcing (even partially) the product is also on my mind. The increased visibility is indeed something to consider.

Thank you for you input,