Sabi ni Harvey noong Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 9:31 AM:
i've just discovered this yesterday: NSO's e-census site does not recognize firefox to do online transaction ( https://www.ecensus.com.ph/Secure/frmIndex.asp). it requires IE or netscape. we should also call on government sites which require proprietary browsers to access their content.
Interesting. I also wrote a critique on another mailing list about the Commission on Audit (COA) Electronic New Government Accounting System (e-NGAS), which was written in VB6 (!) and requires Microsoft SQL Server. Total cost of licenses would come to around PhP160,000. To be fair, I should mention that another member of the list said that COA was looking into a Fedora-based e-NGAS but "were having a hard time". Attention, Rep Teddy Casino's tech staff: regardless of the progress of the FOSS bill, I suggest that you look into banning government agencies from requiring specific software applications from accessing their sites. Although maybe an Executive Order may do. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph _________________________________________________ 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
