Re: [ossig] Government sector standardize on SuSE Linux?

[Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 15:04 +0800, Yeak Nai Siew wrote:

> Does anyone experience issue regarding government sectors prefer to use
> SuSE Linux and even making it a "policy" for deployment?

See, I said from the beginning, "policy" for even favouring OSS was a
bad idea. Competition, a complete TCO study, and a needs-meets-wants
kind of procurement is best

> My recent proposal of using Red Hat Enterprise Linux being rejected not
> due to price. The customer told me Mimos, OSCC and DRB-Hicom are
> standardize on SuSE Linux. Thus they want to adhere to that standard. I
> can't verify it... Also in another argument that they prefer SuSE is
> because it has corporate (Novel) or local present; thus making it a more
> preferred choice.

What, Red Hat Malaysia's office and one-man show isn't good enough for
them?

This is seriously troubling, and I hope you keep us updated as to what's
going on

(and troubling from a perspective that folk might want to sell Ubuntu
Linux with support around it; or even FreeBSD with support around it)
-- 
Colin Charles, byte@aeon.com.my
http://www.bytebot.net/
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi


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