We all know that often governments are the biggest consumers esp in softwares. As we all know from the recent posts here that HLCIT also wants to go OpenSource with it's database. Now we need to leverage this for FOSS community. We all know oracle is popular but we also know that Open Source has caught up. The thing that they want is support. If we can get the HLCIT converted to Open Source, we can show how much taxpayer's money is being wasted(?) because unless people really need/use a feature, they shouldn't be paying for it. Let's do a research essentially... (ok cut to the chase) because there's more money with government works for Foss Nepal and getting a system of that scale to work on Open Source software will mean that it can be a great achievement for FOSS community towards making us more enterprise friendly in due time and especially when the bigger names (IBM?) come to Nepal.
The thing is, let's focus on people who really want to go open source get the maximum benefit out of it. Let's do some research into it... let's find out for sure the weaknesses and strengths of Open Source solutions, what we can get from the enterprise versions and how it can be worked on... It surely sounds daunting... but foss nepal will get lost in the sea of bidders (from Oracle Pros, ol' enemy Microsoft and others) unless there's money in it. We have worked on databases time and again... it's time to get things that you all have reviewed and perhaps review yourself so that we really can have a vision in long run in this sector as well... I'll be posting some of the interesting things ... err... as some people call... spammin? here and I believe u guys can do it as well so that we can really show what can be done... Let's stop using Bulldozers(oracle) for making sandcastles..... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
