current experience with 2 ministries in putrajaya ministry #1 - tender specifically requests for oss. besides cost, the purpose is not to be locked down with licensing. and they can share with the 6 agencies under them.
ministry #2 - already knew what feature was needed and required oss so that they can integrate with existing system. other 'overlooked' reason for oss: 1. inhouse development. very few ict officers like to fill long forms, write kertas kerja, and wait till next year to have a software. and typically, users wanted it yesterday. so the alternative is download oss and have it running by the end of the week. 2. features: spent the whole of the last 2 weeks reading through 58 oss case study awards. what struck me was that 80% of them regarded oss as superior (the other 20% was in desktop deployments) at the moment the situation is still in the 'trial' stage which means that they are using whatever is available. i constantly look at tenders / requests for quotes specifically for web based applications. more than half specified open source. most recent is from a ministry which specifically requested development on joomla. and it scares the shit out of m$... cutting prices to the govt academics by a huge 85%. tying up with php companies and sponsoring a booth at mygosscon. coming up with installer for several oss cms for windows. instead of bitching, pitch one more time, instead of blaming, fix one more bug we need lots more oss developers.... there are heaps more work that can be done. On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Eric Yeoh <msiantuxlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Brian, > > I am sure he does. Since I was in R&D and now in Training, I never really > got around looking at the numbers properly. > > Although I can never attest to its authenticity (or otherwise), from my > experience dealing with agencies, there is seems to be a genuine interest in > FOSS. > > As mentioned, I only fear that they will alway associate FOSS with Free as > in cost rather than in Freedom. > > Eric > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:45 PM, BRIAN RITCHIE > <esqbrianritc...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Eric, >> >> I am sure we can get Kaeru to revert on this if it is indeed his >> figures. Kaeru has a good sense of economics based on our previous >> encounters so I am sure he has a valid source if so. >> >> <http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en> >> > -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. To post to this group, send email to osdcmy-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to osdcmy-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en
