Brothers, How do relate cost factor versus OSS? Trying not to be an a** here but looking at business model it is more less the same as those proprietary. But I do agreed with you that by the end of the day is how would you convince the decisions makers. is it safe for me to say that 90% of the OSS market consist of technical people rather than PR and marketing people. I do greed with mampu statements more less because they want to create awareness. That would the first step of any product to state their claim in the market. Personally I belived that now would be a very good time to invest in the marketing that you go full blast.
Just my USD 1 idea... :) rafe Send from my HTC Android On Dec 21, 2009 4:24 PM, "Eric Yeoh" <msiantuxlo...@gmail.com> wrote: Azrul, Couldn't agree more. However, there are business rules we apply here to get the numbers. Installing a single instance of OO.o really doesn't even register on our radar. We are looking at the very least one FOSS stack on the back end. Yeah one might not be much in a data centre of maybe a hundred servers, but it is a start. The server must be doing something important like serving the main portal, mail server or app server. MAMPU is a very loud paper tiger. It has no authority to mandate other agencies on what platform to adopt and hence working like a true agencies it prefers to "convince" and "persuade" rather than be kuku besi about it. On that I cannot agree with them as the Govt only works if there is a stick. Being self starters has never been a hallmark of the local civil service and it will never be. Running FOSS on Windows or even on Linux or BSD only means they are using a FOSS stack. Nothing to do whether the stuff they create is open sourced or not. Dude..the Govt is slowly warming towards FOSS, essentially because of the cost factor. That worries me because it only means that they are more interested in the Free as in Cost part rather than the Free as in Freedom part. They might just always want to not pay for the stuff. Eric On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Azrul Hasni MADISA <azrulha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I promise myself not to bitch too much but this is such a troll bait, I have to bite. > > Discla... -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://ww... -- 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
