This is a rather late response to this thread and slightly askew. Instead of the back-end, which consumers won't really care that much about, what I am more concerned about regarding bank websites, particularly their online banking portals, is that most of them seem to -require- you to use a particulare web-browser on a particular OS. As a consumer, I do not find it funny that I am forced to use that specific combination of software to be able to access their online services. Of course, the numbers of end-users who don't use that specific combination of software is not the majority, but it is by no means insignificant. I am lucky that there is a workaround for some of these, but I still have to go through hoops to be able to manage my bank account online using Linux. It would have been so much easier for consumers (this includes us, Linux/BSD/MacOS users) really if they had just used open standards to build their portals.
I suppose the same can be said about government portals that should be accessible to all. Most of us on this list already know about the benefits of using open standards as well as free and open source software. Do IT professionals in banking and government have a clue in this direction? What can we do about this, if they do not? On 2/8/06, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
it is also said that BPI is ruing their Linux "adventure." It's one of those banks I mentioned earlier.
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