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

[Yeak Nai Siew <yeak@xxxxxxxxx>]

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The guideline that I mean is for commercial or business use. If any
vendor want to use Open Source as a reason to do business, this vendor
must meet some requirements. This is to ensure customers receive the
products and level of services they are expecting. The guideline should
also provide a healthy competition among vendors. Isn't this ISO9001 or
similar standard exists to do this?

Hmm, may be "guideline" is such a big word to use. But I just hope all
vendors can compete fairly. If you are good in gentoo, there is nothing
to stop you from pushing it. You could build support channel around it,
training center for gentoo and so on. If guideline exists, then it
become easier for whoever like gentoo to setup their company to meet
that requirement, and then enter the competition with other vendors.


BIGrat wrote:
| 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,
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|>This is to update my own question about the subject above.
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|>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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