There is the matter of the Oracle license fee, any guesses how much
that contract would be worth? There must have been a substantial
hardware cost too.



On 5/21/07, Alwyn Schoeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm sorry, but open source != huge budget, not at the service levels they
> are achieving.
> So I would assume 99% of the budget went into pockets.
>
>
> On 5/21/07, Jeff Mutonho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/21/07, Boniface Kabaso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Just want to ask a question about the eNatis. I was listening on the
> radio
> > > while driving home to the eNatis guy saying something like they have
> > > increased their server capacity and that it should sort out the current
> > > problems they are experiencing. They actually had to take the system
> offline
> > > to do that! It struck me like they were having some serious scalability
> > > issues and just wondered why these tests were not made during
> development
> > > considering the budget they had.
> > >
> > > Anyway, just out of curiosity, does anybody on this forum know what
> > > technology is behind eNatis, ie J2EE, .NET, CORBA or some proprietary
> > > client/server or internet technology?
> > >
> > > For those that have been  too busy hacking away at your projects to
> notice
> > > what is going on, eNatis is the Government's new electronic national
> traffic
> > > information system that is supposed to solve most of the problems in the
> > > traffic department that deal with vehicle registration and all, bringing
> in
> > > benefits like transactions processing  through  ATMs and the internet.
> > >
> > > Boniface
> > >
> > >
> > Does the following point you in the right direction?
> >
> >
> 1)http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jsp?forum=83&thread=222641
> >
> > 2)"Vorster explains eNatis is based on "free and open source software"
> > and the "open source footprint of the project is constantly
> > increased". Familiar software includes Java and RedHat Enterprise
> > Linux as the operating system for application servers in the data
> > centre and disaster recovery centre, as well as in the fault-logging
> > system, and JasperReports as report-generating technology."
> >
> >
> (http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/business/2007/0704231035.asp?S=IT%20in%20Government&A=ITG&O=FRGN
> )
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Don't take the name of root in vain."
> >
> > Jeff  Mutonho
> > Cape Town
> > South Africa
> >
> > GoogleTalk : ejbengine
> > Skype        : ejbengine
> > Registered Linux user number 366042
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Alwyn Schoeman
>
>
>  >
>


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