--- Dinesh Shah dinesh@indiamail.com wrote:
Hi,
The Government in most countries are BIG buyers in IT. Being a BIG buyers gives them the leverage vis-a-vis the dictating terms on the vendors. The Indian Government can use this leverage to boost Free and Open Source software by defining purchase policies of their needs.
[snip] Dinesh bhai........
can i suggest 1 thing pliss...;) "A satisfied Customer is the BEST Advertising tool any enterprise can hire...."...not tru in all cases tho...;)
Dude..letz get the babus to use it 1st and DEMO to them that all their daily server/desktop needs can b done using Free SOftware.....The industry behind the services perspective will alwayz b there......ANd believe me dude... once the Govt sees that Support/Service is available.....all the aprehensions will be drawn away. So lets aske for a dept to start Gnu-linuxing ASAP. The rest we can plan out....
Trevor Warren
The Government purchases can be classified in to two categories - Defense and Non-Defense IT purchases.
The Government can lay down following buying policy in their tendering procedures.
Defense Purchases : With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System dinesh@indiamail.com http://dineshah.tripod.com Mobile: 98213-11906
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