lets use this £41,644 - £25,804 amount of money in other Development ( that might be the country's). Regards Ujwal
On May 19, 2:17 pm, "Prasanna Gautam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
