Thanks very much, Nick - but we're (by we, I mean Openz) by no means giving up!! Have no fear. In fact, I spoke to the Rt. Hon. Pete Hodgson at the "Innovate" conference last week. He put me on to Neil McKay, the head of IndustryNZ, and his staff who have the task of developing some of the e-gov't policy. As it happens, the staffers I talked to were VERY interested in our proposal, and we will be conducting further talks. I'm just interested in hearing more (Jeremy B?) about the "G2000 Preferential Select Agreement" between Microsoft and the NZ Gov't and a few large corporates like Air NZ and (I believe) the CHEs... They apparently get something like a 60-80% discount on MS stuff - but is it exclusive? I suspect so. That would certainly explain the gov't's reluctance to do anything "drastic" like approve the use of a non MS system.
Regards, Dave On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 15:53, Nick Elder wrote: > Well good on you for trying Dave! > > > http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,1131577a1896,FF.html -- ** David Lane, Director - Egressive Limited * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** ** PO Box 24162, Christchurch, NZ * www.egressive.com * 025 229 8147 ** ** Open Source: software for the discerning palate * www.openz.org **
