On 5/19/07, Ujwal (RUBBOT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > lets use this £41,644 - £25,804 amount of money in other Development > ( that might be the country's). > Regards > Ujwal
yeah... u can look at this way.. essentially this is our money that's going to US company.... and getting still more to the point.. we can earn that money... so we can potentially save and make money with these solutions.. 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
