On 5/22/07, Brian Silberbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> 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.


I remeber a few years ago before dual core chips became available prices
were something like $25K per cpu(But don't quote me on that details are
foggy, but it was somewhere in that region).

Well, it could of been worse...they could of bought rubbish from IBM :-p

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
> > >
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> > > Registered Linux user number 366042
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Alwyn Schoeman
> >
> >
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> >
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