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

[BIGrat <tikus.besar@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 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

... and you expect a govt dept to do all that?? ;-)

> > 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.

the issue here is that all decision makers (junior to senior) want to
cover their a**.  in the past it was "you cant go wrong with ibm".  
at the end of the day these same decison makers want a neck to wring,
preferably the principle, not a local distributor.  secondly they tend
to view local presence as a committment. A more well-staffed company
gives the perception that response is faster; especially with the
SLAs' mantra going round the govt depts ;-)

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

afraid so.... (or was your statement made in jest??) ;-)

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

well, the sky isnt falling,.. not yet anyhow.... but the issue here is
not so much as rhat vs suse for the pie; rather who's got the better
support structure from the user's point of view.  it may not be
necessarily correct, but that's his/her perspective.
 
> (and troubling from a perspective that folk might want to sell Ubuntu
> Linux with support around it; or even FreeBSD with support around it)

the SMI segment  is still waiting... ;-)


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