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

[BIGrat <tikus.besar@xxxxxxxxx>]

correct me if i'm barking up the wrong tree, but are u asking for a
discussion on commercial issues here? e.g guidelines. we can come out
with our guidelines but who's going to "adhere" or even bother to hv a
look at it?  secondly there are far to many other commercial issues
involved eg i know of certain applications that are certified to run
on Redhat; can we then "insist" (for the lack of a better  term) that
the application developer gets it certified on other distros as well?

what if a certain customer who's familar with linux and wants his
favourite distro say... debian.  guidelines as earlier suggested will
preclude distros like debian, knoppix, slack....ect..  it is difficult
to classify these distros under commercial guidelines.

as said earlier, my apologies if i'm up the wrong tree. ;-)


On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:10:55 +0800, Yeak Nai Siew <yeak@md.com.my> wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> This is to update my own question about the subject above.
> 
> I have talked to KOMNAS (DRB-Hicom) team and understood from them that
> there isn't any particular choice for which distro. The selection of
> SuSE Linux is due to persistent supports and offers from Novel.
> 
> In fact, we need to praise KOMNAS team for they had been rejecting the
> temptation of Microsoft Malaysia's offer to choose Windows in the first
> place.
> 
> Also there isn't any guideline or policy. It is a common "branding" and
> "look forward" kind of behavior among us. For example, if Linus Torvald
> use Apple, many Linux users may want to try it too.
> 
> Now, do we really need a guideline? I think we should. May be just a
> brainstorming...
> 
> Thanks.


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