>Sudev Barar wrote: >While we emerge as world hub for IT our own IT enabled companies are >busy running after closed standards being dished out by M$$$$$!! >www.icicidirect.com has moved its web interface to be solely used >through M$-I.Explorer ONLY!!! >Bugger be the customer who wants to use FLOSS options. Buy M$-OS and be >happy else commerce is denied to you!!
Forget banks, even the so called "world class IT services provider" TATA consultancy services (TCS.com) website is not Free Software friendly. During the campus placements in our college, we had to fill up an online form to register. That online form didn't work with ANY browser apart from IE. I tried Mozilla (On Linux and Windows), Firefox (on Linux), Opera (on Linux and Windows), Galeon (on Linux), Konqueror (on Linux) with little success, thus preventing me from filling up the form (I'm 100% windows free :-) ). I emailed TCS support and they replied with some thing about Lotus Domino release 5.0 (which they use) supporting only "IE and it's varients" (what are IE varients BTW?) and how Mozilla support has only been aded only from Domino release 6.0 which they don't have. Thus they basically held up their hands and said "we can't help you, deal with it". I don't think I even wanted to work with a company which lets software version numbers get in the way of customer satisfaction. Such a scenario is something that a company using Free software will never face because I think upgrading becomes a simple matter of doing an apt get :-) I faced a similar situation with IMS (The CAT coaching institute) website. The online test scores and evaluation pages are not working with Mozilla or konqueror while my friends using IE on windows can easily access them. I didn't e-mail them yet about the problem but I'm gonna. - AJ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
