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Re: [ossig] Govt ICT infrastructure
I agree 100%.
Trouble is, the 'government's drive towards open source/linux' is
currently only various statements from ministers' speeches coupled with
various initiatives that are not co-ordinated nationally. Until
there's a proper national OSS policy, different bits of Government can
use what software they want.
MIMOS is one of the parties requesting that a national OSS policy is
drawn up.
Imran
Seah Hong Yee wrote:
I just came back from a meeting with Royal Malaysian Custom on the
implementation of the e-declare for declaration of goods for export and
import. The vendor was www.dagangnet.com From what I can gather from the
meeting :
1) You have to have at least IE 5.5 as your browser
2) You need a Pentium 4 as your minimal requirement
I voice out during the meeting that my company don't have windows desktop and
I would be using something like mozilla for accessing the service. From the
information I can obtain, this would be something that they have not tried
and would have to get back to me sometime in future. When enquire about the
rationale behind IE, the reason given was, IE has stronger encryption.
The really bad thing about this is
1) Given government's drive towards open source/linux, going for something
like this is definitely against the policy outline thus far.
2) It doesn't make too much sense to have a pentium 4 as an absolute minimum
for accessing something like an encrypted web-based application. Notice,
there was no mention of AMD on the list. This is like endorsing one processor
vendor over the other. I am quite sure that if I deploy something like C3 or
Geode, the application would probably work.
This is the same problem with e-perolehan. E-perolehan also asked for IE 5.5
with 128bit encryption as the requirement. There are no attempts to cater for
user of other browser such as mozilla, konqueror or safari. Worse yet, there
was no instruction on how to get the card reader to work with other browser.
Does anyone know of anyway to make the application to work with a card reader
on linux ?
What I am getting at is, local OSS community should really lobby the govt and
tell them to develop application that are multi-platform instead of working
with a specific platform/browser. It make no sense of whatsoever to have
application develop for a single platform and people ended up stuck with it.
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Imran William Smith
Project Manager, Open Source Development,
MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia
Asian Open Source Centre : http://www.asiaosc.org
MIMOS Open Source : http://opensource.mimos.my
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