On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <ka...@imsc.res.in>wrote:
> Hello, > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Arun Kumar Khan wrote: > > Anyway, as for GOI (and PSUs under it), forget FOSS adoption; even open > > standards adoption is lip service. Otherwise, we would not have broken > > e-governance sites (i.e. requiring MS Windows/IE combo to conduct > > business with the govt./psu). Ditto for the states. > > I would not blame the government entirely for the latter. Most of the > time they outsource to our "software giants" most of whom produce the > websites in this broken fashion. (Note that infosys and tcs also > use IIS servers though their pages are less broken). > Most of them are not outsourced but are done using out of date employees and intern students .To earn brownie points. > Of course, you could ask that the officers of the government become > more aware about computers and perhaps hire people to develop sites > for them. We have already see how poorly banks fare in this regard so > I would not wait for that to happen. No zeal left to learn , Fag end of there careers , Trying to Keep political bossses happy, No budgets so how do you propose to pull this one. > > What is *required* is that centres like nic.in which are *supposed* to > help the government in setting up the sites do a little more homework > before outsourcing their work or before doing it themselves. > As i said the Vendors are all over the place and they make it happen , So the so called Govt Babu is happy in getting things done and earning the brownie points than tinkering with Foss Solutions.There has been some successes though in this direction but they are far and few. > I basically agree with your mail that even while we worry about FOSS > adoption, a more basic thing is to ask for standards compliance in > e-governance. > > Agreed but what happens when people are overwhelmed with thousands of pages of documents and standards talk . The sales or presales person on the field makes a fast killing in locking in the application early on, so that the Legacy continues to Live on ever after, and there company makes money year after year. -Satya http://www.linkedin.com/in/satyaakam _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
