On 7/17/06, manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, DOST 7 went OpenBSD, and they are more secure becaus eof it. And it cost them a whole lot less than if they went with proprietary software. And the BSD servers require very little maintenance. Just guess how much the government would have saved if it went proprietary...
Yeah, well DOST has employees that maintain the OpenBSD systems -- the employees cost money to keep. Although I do understand that the savings come at the price of accountability and "someone to blame when it all goes wrong", it does make sense on a case to case basis. But saying _all_ software that the government will require should be open source is taking it a bit too far -- and I'm just being pragmatic about it. At the moment, not all the open source solutions make good enough software for government needs -- eLGU project, tried but didn't impress me, no open source traffic management/monitoring system (yet), no open source weather forecasting software (yet), no open source seismic activity tracking software (yet), not even good enough open source geographical information systems at par with ArcSoft and IDRISI just to name a few. Being pragmatic about it says: okay, let's use proprietary software while there aren't any cheaper alternatives for us the meantime -- now when someone else creates open source versions or alternatives, then perhaps we can asses them then. -- Dean Michael C. Berris C/C++ Software Architect Orange and Bronze Software Labs http://3w-agility.blogspot.com/ http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/ Mobile: +639287291459 Email: dean [at] orangeandbronze [dot] com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
