Hi Godwin, and welcome to the list. I think that many people still see the government and MITA as a Microsoft-only arena, which it used to be, and although the message being sent out now is a different one, it appears that - so far - this has not produced many tangible results. Although I am encouraged by the new policy, some might suspect that this is only political noise. I know many individuals within MITA who are keen on adopting open source solutions, having worked with them myself, but then again there are many who resist such a change. My guess is that when we start hearing about actual deployments of open source solutions within government entities rather than policy papers, people will be less skeptical.
I agree with Andrew's point about "non-disruptive" technology. For instance, I personally consider the change between MS Office 2003 to Office 2007, with its complete change in user interface, to be more disruptive than a switch from Office 2003 to OpenOffice. Ramon Casha On 3 December 2010 19:45, godwin <[email protected]> wrote: > hi Andrew ! > > how's you ? > > apologies for potentially being one 'bean counter' then :) > > in my personal competence, i extend thanks to all in any case for the > support. > > constructive contribution is priceless and very welcome. > > i may be one of those that only occasionally resort to higher faculties of > reason however :) > > keep well, and in touch - been some time that we spoke. > > godwin > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >
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